A wide range of parties involved in evaluating economic performance, including investors, auditors, interest groups, bankers, government organizations, academics, and analysts, can benefit greatly from the immediate detection of fraudulent financial reports. This research presents a novel...

We build upon a Markov-Switching Bayesian Vector Autoregression (MSBVAR) model to study how the credit default swaps market in the euro area becomes an important chain in the propagation of shocks through the entire financial system. The study sheds light on the regime-dependent...