The financial crisis of 2007-2009 has questioned the provisions of Basel II agreement on capital adequacy requirements and the appropriateness of VaR measurement. This paper reconsiders the use of Value-at-risk as a measure for potential risk of economic losses in financial markets by estimating...

In this paper, the long-run validity of the monetary model for the Canadian-U.S. dollar is reexamined. The time-series properties of the variables are examined with the use of nonseasonal and seasonal unit root and stationarity tests, and it is shown that they are I(1) processes with no seasonal...

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the macroeconomic effects of commercial policy in the form of a general non-retaliatory tariff imposed by a small open economy under flexible exchange rates. The Mundellian analysis which has dominated the discussion in this area has been that a tariff...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to focus on the specific “shareholder's” concept of transparency. Design/methodology/approach – It considers that indirect securities holding systems limit the degree of “post-trading” transparency. The main concern is that an adverse effect of...