The importance of sovereign bond as a source of financing revenue deficit, benchmarking for corporate bonds and debt management in Africa, calls for continual monitoring of its volatility dynamics. This study evaluates the nature of sovereign bond volatility interaction between African countries...

Im Zuge der europäischen Schuldenkrise ist deutlich geworden, dass Staatsanleihen eine durchaus riskante Anlageform sein können. Der Basler Ausschuss und die Bundesbank haben daher eine intensive Diskussion darüber angestoßen, ob Investitionen der Banken in EU-Staatsanleihen in Zukunft mit...

Ausgelöst durch das Zusammentreffen niedriger Zinsen in reichen Ländern und einem hohen Finanzierungsbedarf für Infrastruktur in vielen ärmeren Ländern befindet sich die Verschuldung der Länder des Globalen Südens seit Jahren auf einem dramatisch hohen Niveau. Hohe Schuldendienstzahlungen...

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...

This paper systematically surveys the use of different approaches for the magic square (MS) as an indicator of welfare, a formal system of necessary relations to deal with conflicts of socioeconomic objectives. The starting point is the article of Kaldor (1971) followed by contributions by the...

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...

We quantify the effect of macroprudential policy in mitigating domestic and foreign shocks to a small open commodity based economy estimated on Chilean data. The model features a heterogeneous banking sector and includes financial frictions through collateralized borrowing and unsecured loans...

Die meisten Mitgliedsländer der OECD fördern Forschungs- und Entwicklungsaktivitäten (FuE) der Unternehmen durch Projektzuschüsse. Immer bedeutender geworden ist zuletzt vielerorts auch die steuerliche Förderung. Die vorliegende Studie untersucht das Ausmaß der FuE-Förderung in 18...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to compare the three largest economies in Latin America (Brazil, Mexico and Argentina) with other economies that have another type of capitalism, in that way we can extract some effects of the hierarchical capitalism in Latin America...