The issue of EDC became increasingly important in the field of development economics primarily because EDC has been occurring more frequent after the deregulation of global financial flows in the 1970s (Tiruneh 2004, Jones 2015) hitting mostly MICs and LICs. Assessing the probability of an EDC...

Interjurisdictional flows of imperfectly-mobile migrants, investment, and other productive resources result in the costly dynamic adjustment of resource stocks. This paper investigates the comparative dynamics of adjustment to changes in local fiscal policy with two imperfectly mobile productive...

In this paper we test New Keynesian propositions about inflation and unemployment trade off with the New Keynesian Phillips curve and the proposition of non-neutrality of money. The main conclusion is that there is limited evidence in line with the New-Keynesian theory. Money and growth are...

This paper explores the Marxian genetic root of the multiplier in order to clarify its foundations and validity conditions. Though the analysis is restricted to the first two volumes of Capital and the early contributions by Kalecki in the 1930s, we argue that we can draw from these works...

The Austrian objection to mathematical and statistical work in economics, because of the absence of constants, is re-examined in the light of large micro-data sets available today. The negative evidence regarding the Law of one Price is described and then expanded to a critique of the practice...

Why were the rating agencies trusted? When they became required for Federal deposit insurance their incentives for upward bias was common knowledge. The requirement was attacked by a Chicago economist, Melchior Palyi, on philosophical grounds (the expertise is excessively secret) and technical...

Why were the rating agencies trusted? When they became required for Federal deposit insurance their incentives for upward bias was common knowledge. The requirement was attacked by a Chicago economist, Melchior Palyi, on philosophical grounds (the expertise is excessively secret) and technical...

Since stock markets are volatile, dynamic and complicated, forecasting stock market return is considered as a challenging task. Nevertheless, researchers have developed various linear and non linear methods for effective forecasting. Among these neural networks are most suitable for forecasting...

This paper considers a paradigm financial markets trades booking and valuation, data subscription and portfolio revaluation system. Traded instruments covered include: spot and forward exchange rates (FX); credit default swaps (CDS); total return swaps (TRS); commodity and bond futures; traded...