In 2008 the US financial crisis spilled over into a number of other economies causing declines in GDP across the world. Yet the decades preceding the current downturn had been a period of unprecedented stability for the US economy. This paper examines annual data for 98 countries over the period...

The decades preceding the recent financial crisis and global downturn were a period ofunusually mild output volatility for many developed and developing market economies. Weanalyse data from 85 countries and report findings consistent with the hypothesis that foreigndirect investment had a...

The trade effects of exchange rate variability have been an issue in international economics for the past 30 years. The contribution of this paper is to apply meta-regression analysis (MRA) to the empirical literature. On average, exchange rate variability exerts a negative effect on...

What determines the size of monetary policy effects on prices? This is one of the crucial questions for the efficient conduct of monetary policy; hence this study investigates this issue by exploring variations in the responsiveness of prices to a monetary policy shock across 46 developed and...

This paper investigates the long-run consequences of economic disasters. The research is based on the historical data for 38 OECD and non OECD countries over the last two centuries. Results of the research indicate the negative long-run effect of economic disasters on output growth. The research...

The literature underlines the low number of women in management as one of the main indicators of gender discrimination in labor market. This paper investigates the cross-country differences in the percentage of women in senior management. The results show that women are more represented in...

This study explores cross-country variations in the effects of a monetary policy shock on output using the sample of 48 developed and developing countries. The structural vector autoregression model is used to estimate monetary policy effects for each country separately. Based on the estimated...