We identify the impact of short-term interest rates on credit risk-taking by analyzing a comprehensive credit register from Spain, a country where for the last twenty years monetary policy was mostly decided abroad. Discrete choice, within borrower comparison and duration analyses show that...

Este documento estudia el impacto de los programas de compra de bonos soberanos implementados por el Banco Central Europeo desde 2014, centrándose en la dinámica del diferencial de rendimiento de los bonos soberanos de España y Portugal. El análisis confirma que, si bien los factores...

Despite its recent advent, value at risk (VaR) became the most widely used technique for measuring future expected risk for both financial and non-financial institutions. VaR, the measure of the worst expected loss over a given horizon at a given confidence level, depends crucially on the...

Value at Risk and the Expected Shortfall are two measurements of market risks for financial assets. Statistically, they are extreme quantiles of the distribution of financial log returns. Though financial log return data are usually both heteroscedastic and fatter-tailed, most of the existing...

Economics

This paper analyses the risk and return of loans portfolios in a joint setting. I develop a model to obtain the distribution of loans returns. I use this model to describe the investment opportunity set of lenders using mean-variance analysis with a Value at Risk constraint. I also obtain closed...

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...

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...

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...