Overall, household debt levels have risen sharply over the past decades in EU Member States. While certain levels of household debts can be beneficial, they can become problematic especially with a sudden, unexpected decrease of incomes or increase of expenditures. The current financial crisis...

A workshop on the "The Impact of the Crisis on SMEs" was held in the European Parliament in Brussels on 1 February 2010. This document contains the programme, presentations and proceedings of that workshop.

This dissertation studies the relationship between exchange rate regimes and financing decisions of corporations in small open economies with access to international capital markets.The first essay develops a model of the choice between local and foreign currency debt by capital-constrained...

The three papers that comprise my dissertation study international asset markets. The first paper “What Do We Learn from the Price of Crude Oil Futures?” shows that, despite their widespread use, oil futures prices are less accurate in the mean-squared error sense than no-change forecasts....

Capital account liberalization and exchange rate regime choice, what scope for flexibility in Tunisia? This study evaluates within a game-theoretic framework the exchange rate regime from a welfare perspective. In a tradable-nontradable goods model framework, Tunisia’s exchange rate regime...

Exchange rate stability was defined as one of the prerequisites for monetary integration in Europe. In this paper, we analyze recent developments in the volatility of exchange rates of the Central European countries (the Visegrad Group) and a selected group of European Union countries (the...

This paper analyzes the behaviour of the external adjustment path for the four main economies in the euro area. I find a structural break in the behaviour of the net external position at the time of the introduction of the euro for France, Italy and Spain, pointing out that the inception of the...

Este trabajo analiza la relación entre la posición externa neta de Estados Unidos y el régimen de tipo de cambio. Se detecta una ruptura estructural en la posición externa neta de Estados Unidos al final del sistema de tipo de cambio fijo de Bretton Woods, que modificó tanto la media como...

We use a spatial competition based model in a two-stage game setup to assess whether equilibrium in exchange rates among the leading currencies is attainable. We show that a stable equilibrium can be reached in the case of two leading currencies, but not in the case of three. In our model,...