We construct comprehensive public sector balance sheets for Finland for 2000-2016 by complementing general government statistics with data on public corporations and pensions. These static balance sheets show that Finland's public sector net worth at end 2016 was - 160 percent of GDP, after...

The study examines the bank-specific determinants of sovereign bond holdings and how such holdings affect bank lending of the banking market in Vietnam. Using annual financial data of commercial banks from 2007 to 2018 and alternative regression techniques for both dynamic and static models, we...

Seit der Finanzkrise 2008 unterliegen die Europäischen Volkswirtschaften einer nahezu permanenten, im übertragenen Sinn "intensivmedizinischen" Behandlung mit unkonventionellen geld- und fiskalpolitischen Maßnahmen. Die von der EZB praktizierten, aus der Not dicht aufeinanderfolgender Krisen...

Die impliziten Staatsschulden sind eine auf Annahmen beruhende Rechengröße, die etwas qualitativ grundlegend anderes als explizite Staatsschulden sind, also zu diesen nicht addiert werden können. Überdies verzerren sie die wirklichen Kosten der Alterung erheblich. Es entsteht ein Trugbild...

Purpose: The study investigates the effect of corruption on FDI inflows to West Africa, and also establishes a threshold level of corruption for the sub-region. Design/Methodology/Approach: Using secondary data for the period 1999-2018, the study adopted a panel Autoregressive Distributed Lag...

Purpose: The main objective of this paper is to evaluate whether the interest charges on public debt could be a threat for the "said" ageing expenditures, This study attempts to analyze the effects of debt burdens known as interest charges in relation to the pensions and health care spending,...

We reply to the critics who contributed the other papers in the same issue of this journal. In the first part of the article, we indicate those remarks addressed to us, which we deem inappropriate to answer. The second part deals with the remarks we find useful to answer, which relate to money,...