Since the mid 1990s, theories of speculative attacks have argued that fixed exchange rate regimes induce excessive borrowing in foreign currency as an optimal response to implicit guarantees that the government will not devalue the domestic currency. Using data on Brazilian firms before and...

This paper investigates the decrease in wage inequality among working age men in the Brazilian formal labor market by decomposing it into its permanent and transitory components. The permanent component refers to workers' productivity characteristics such as education and abilities, whereas the...

Crises cause attentiveness in our society and awaken, depending on the degree of consternation, our ongoing interest. These events include financial crises, phenomenal incidents that shock the economic world and pose significant challenges for the governments. Two crises which stand out in this...

Wettbewerb und Konzentration in der Kreditwirtschaft der EU Dieser Beitrag stellt eine empirische Untersuchung der Wettbewerbsstruktur der Kreditwirtschaft in der EU insgesamt sowie in einzelnen EU-Ländern dar. Die Studie folgt der Methodik von Panzar-Rosse, bei der zur Bewertung der...

Since the last global financial crisis supervisory mechanisms and regulations have become more stringent which have significantly improved resilience of banks therefore positively affecting financial stability. Apart from traditional financial institutions which have been supervised according to...

This agent-based financial market model is a generalization of the model of Westerhoff (The Use of Agent-Based Financial Market Models to Test the Effectiveness of Regulatory Policies) by traders who are allowed to have different investment horizons as introduced by Demary (Who Does a Currency...

Die Finanzkrise hat die Politik mit der Aufgabe konfrontiert, Banken und internationale Finanzmärkte besser zu kontrollieren. Dies ist bisher nur unzureichend gelungen. An der Bankenregulierung wird deutlich, dass es für ein effizientes Funktionieren der Finanzmärkte erforderlich ist, die...

In this paper the author empirically examines whether the influence of bilateral investment treaties' political risk guarantees extends to other types of capital flows - FDI, private debt, public debt and portfolio equity. The paper uses panel data on middle and low income countries during the...

This paper identifies the factors that affect the primary and secondary market spreads of fixed and variable rate bonds issued by sub-sovereign European governments. The two markets were analyzed separately to compare whether the factors for the primary market coincided with those for the...

Le début du XXIeme a connu un essor remarquable des marchés financiers, de l’innovation et des processus de déréglementation. L’inflation faible, la liquidité abondante, la confiance dans les marchés efficaces et autorégulateurs ont conduit a une perception généralisée de risque...