Globally, financial institutions have increased their holdings of domestic sovereign debt, tightening the linkage between the health of the financial system and the level of sovereign debt, or the "financial sector-sovereign nexus," during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In South Africa, the...

Chapter 1: Impact of Ownership Concentration on Profitability of the Banking Sector: The Case of Turkey -- Chapter 2: Leading Indicators of Turkey’s Financial Crises -- Chapter 3: The Effects of Social Media Influencers on Consumers' Buying Intentions with the Mediating Role of Consumer...

Interest-rate spreads fluctuate widely across time and countries. We characterize their behavior using some 3,200 quarterly observations for 21 advanced and 17 emerging economies since the early 1990s. Before the financial crisis, spreads are 10 times more volatile in emerging economies than in...