This paper presents new evidence on the importance of financial innovations for the demand for currency. We use Finnish data on credit card transactions to estimate a currency demand equation which fits the data very well, implies meaningful elasticities and does not suffer from obvious...

Building on the work of Sorge and Virolainen (2006), we revisit the data on aggregate Finnish bank loan losses from the corporate sector, which covers the ‘Big Five’ crisis in Finland in the early 1990s. Several extensions to the empirical model are considered. These extensions are then used...

This paper provides some further tests for the proposition that bigger government leads to smaller output volatility. Both Gali and Fatas and Mihov have provided some evidence which appears to provide support to this proposition. The evidence is, however, based on relatively small sample of...