Direct foreign investment (DFI) has played an important role in the economic development of China in the past 15 years. It contributed to the Chinese domestic capital formation and industrial growth, and promoted export expansion and employment creation. This paper provides an empirical...

The macroeconomic reasons for the recent banking crises in the Nordic countries are analysed using an econometric model estimated with panel data from the 1980s and 1990s. Two alternative dependent variables are used: the ratio of banks oan losses to lending and enterprise bankruptcies per...

This study attempts to investigate and assess the impact of financial liberalization and the ongoing rise of financial rents on income distribution in the post-1980 Turkish economy.

The object of this paper is to show that, historically, both economists and policy makers have generally subscribed to variants of what can be generically described as the Wicksllian norm of price level stablization which necessarily assumes a certain degree of endogeneity of the money supply.