This study offers an assessment of the viability of the fixed income securities market for one hyperinflationary economy since 1997 when its financial market took a volatile shape. The financial sector (banks) continues to grapple in trying to address inflationary pressures, while long term...

Following theory, we check that funding risk connects illiquidity, volatility and returns in the cross-section of stocks. We show that the illiquidity and volatility of stocks increase with funding shocks, while contemporaneous returns decrease with funding shocks. The dispersions of...

Private Equity & Venture Capital in Central and Eastern Europe Ondrej Ptacek Faculty of Economics, University of Economics, Prague Abstract: Private equity and venture capital may contribute significantly to the growth of national economies through financing firms with high growth potential,...

Venture capital is one of most important alternative sources of capital for early stage of enterprise development. It is largely acknowledged that there occurs a market gap in European venture capital markets as there are much more companies in search for an investor than that actually obtain...

This paper studies the investment funds with special emphasis on Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs), as new participants in the financial market. Considering that financial markets are one of the main carriers of globalization, our goal is to investigate development and the role of these investment...

After a joint venture agreement with a high-income country’s firm, an export-oriented but technologically backward firm in a low-income country may earn higher profit, but may not be able to improve its export market performance, unless the world market size is large. In a two-firm-two-country...

College students now use various forms of unsecured credit such as private student loans and credit cards to finance college. Access to these credit lines and the interest rates charged on these loans can vary significantly across credit scores. In this paper, we analyze if credit status, as...

The habit model of Campbell and Cochrane (1999) specifies a process for the 'surplus ratio'-the excess of consumption over habit, relative to consumption-rather than an evolution for the habit stock. It's not immediately apparent if their formulation can be accommodated within the Markov chain...

Recent discussions of exchange rate determination have emphasized the possible role of foreign direct investment in influencing exchange rate behavior. Yet, there are few existing models of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and endogenous exchange rates. This article demonstrates that the entry...

The hereto article indicates how multifractals related ideas can contribute to the modelling of the long-memory nature of the financial market volatility. The multifractal models appear in the context of the new paradigm of the financial markets, being related to Benoit Mandelbrot’s fractal...