This paper examines macrofinancial data from 117 developing and industrial countries for the year 1985. The objective is to broadly characterize the financial systems of these countries using generally available data and to produce a set of comparative indicators for use in other work in this...

Banking reform started much earlier in Hungary than in other socialist countries and Hungary now has by far the most advanced system among transitional socialist economies. The authors discuss recent trends in competition and efficiency in Hungarian banking. They assess the performance of...

Purpose Recent advances in aviation technology have seen the development of helium-filled “hybrid cargo airships” (HCAs) which have the potential to convey large payloads over significant distances at relatively low cost and with a small carbon footprint. The purpose of this paper is to...