and institutional determinants of financial crisis duration. Using an extensive database with 125 countries observed over … the period 1976-2017 and employing a discrete-time duration model, we find that the electoral cycle, political ideology … shows that, to better understand the dynamics of the duration of financial crises, it is essential to look at the duration …

The aim of this paper is to explore the patterns of trade duration across regions and to identify its determinants … variables on the duration of trade relationships from 96 countries from 1995 to 2004. Our results suggest first that the … duration of trade relationships increases with the region level of development: trade relationships from richer economies face …

rejected, we propose an estimation method to capture both aspects of the time trend. We establish consistency and some … distribution theory in the presence of a large sample. Moreover, we examine the proposed hypothesis tests and estimation methods …

forecast evaluation; provides additional Monte Carlo simulation results on GARCH model estimation and VaR prediction; extends …