The goal of this study is to identify empirically how country-level development, taking into account the financial and macroeconomic environment, affect the risk profiles of the banking sector in Europe. Through a dataset that covers 3,399 European banks spanning the period 1996-2011, and the...

Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Looking Back at How Egypt Got to Today -- Chapter Three: Navigating the Storms -- Chapter Four: Achieving Sustainable and Inclusive Growth -- Chapter Five: The Way Forward.

The European Commission's (EU Commission) Sustainable Growth Action Programme aims to transform national economies in the European Union towards a Green Economy. This is linked to the aspiration to achieve the EU climate protection goals and the Sustainable Development Goals of the United...

We investigate the fundamental determinants of sustainability in general equilibrium. We adopt a definition of sustainability that requires that the welfare of future generations is not expected to decrease on average. We then use a stochastic growth model to explore the conditions under which...

The article underlines that uncontrolled and wasteful debt is the main culprit for a economic system that not only makes inequality in the world methodically more extreme, but also systematically misdirects economic resources. Mainstream economic thinking is plainly wrong in circumstances of...