There is a growing debate in the emerging market on the choice of an appropriate monetary or exchange rate policy that could lead to a sustainable economic growth. Inflation targeting has become one of these policy alternatives and has recently been implemented in some of the emerging markets in...

Este documento muestra cómo se puede utilizar la información obtenida de bases de datos a nivel individual y de encuestas, junto con indicadores macroeconómicos, para mejorar la comprensión de los obstáculos a la inversión a los que las empresas de la UE se enfrentan. Para ello, utilizamos...

Artículo de revista ; The latest SAFE results show that the activity of Spanish SMEs continued to grow in the period from October 2021 to March 2022, albeit at a slower pace than six months earlier. The rise in costs prompted a deterioration in profits for most of these firms. Access to...

Rationale: In recent years the Spanish business sector has experienced unprecedented shocks: the onset of the pandemic, supply chain bottlenecks and escalating commodity prices. In this setting, it is important to assess the sector’s economic and financial situation. Takeaways •Between April...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to test whether dominant shareholder(s) of a firm enhance performance in Bangladesh and thus examines the arbitrary moves by the regulatory bodies, in the name of promoting 'good corporate governance', to restrict ownership...

This study evaluates the risk-adjusted performance of American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) on shares of stock of Chinese and Indian firms. The first part of the study examines the nature of Chinese and Indian ADRs (based on depositary bank, sponsorship status, industry classification and...

This Masters Thesis is a synthesis of two papers that address how changes in globalindustrial structures affect regional-specific industrial organization. The first paper is acharacterization of the response of Indonesian manufacturing firms to the Asianfinancial crisis in 1997. The second paper...

It is already well known that U.S. investors can achieve higher gains by investing directly in emergingmarkets (De Santis, 1997). Given the opportunity to invest directly in the shares of stocks in the developed(DCs) and emerging (EM) markets, it is interesting to know whether the U.S. investors...

Recent spikes in oil prices have thrown light on how economic activity in emerging markets may be impacted by oil price shocks. This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the effect of oil price shocks on emerging markets. It tests for the existence of an asymmetrical relationship between oil...

Using novel data on European firms, this paper investigates the relationship between business groups and innovation. Controlling for various firm characteristics, we find that group affiliates are more innovative than standalones. We examine several hypotheses to explain this finding, focusing...