The central bank's balance sheet has become the main instrument of monetary policy in the aftermath of the GFC and the COVID-19 health crisis. Hence, the aim of this paper is to analyze changes in the balance sheets' sizes and channels of base money creation in groups of countries, taking note...

This paper reviews the roles of gamma type kernels in the theory and modelling for Brownian and Lévy semistationary processes. Applications to financial econometrics and the physics of turbulence are pointed out.

In the third article, I examine the effects of credit rationing on corporate cash holdings by modeling the precautionary demand for cash. In the model firms can pledge part of the future cash-flows to creditors when current cashflows are insufficient to finance investment. The discrete time...