The recent European economic crisis has dramatically exposed the failures of the various institutional mechanisms in place to maintain economic stability in Europe, and has unveiled the difficulty in achieving international coordination on fiscal and financial stability policies. Drawing on the...

The current crisis has triggered significant debate concerning economic theory and policy. Largely absent from this debate is an informed discussion of the methods used by economists in analysing the economy and formulating their proposals. But method matters. Here I argue that current academic...

The crisis has gone through several phases of varying complexity before abating in mid-2014. It started with the Financial Turmoil in August 2007, followed by the Global Financial Crisis in September 2008, and the Great Recession in 2009-2010. These events exacerbated imbalances that had already...

This special issue consists of selected papers from the 9th International Conference of the Financial Engineering and Banking Society (FEBS) organized by the Prague University of Economics and Business, Prague, Czech Republic and Audencia Business School, Nantes, France. The conference took...

While the Chinese government has increasingly emphasized greater development balance between the economy, society, and the environment, little is known regarding how the state’s economic policy uncertainty affects within-firm corporate social responsibility (CSR) disclosure over time. Based on...

This paper investigates the impact of innovations in US economic policy uncertainty on the co-movements of, respectively, the Shanghai A-share, the Shenzhen A-share, the Shanghai B-share and the Shenzhen B-share market, with the US stock market. We show that it is absolute changes in the US...