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The aim of this work is to assess the impact of financial crises on output for 11 European transition economies (CEECs). The results suggest that financial crises have a significant and permanent effect, lowering long-term output by about 17 percent. The effect is more important in smaller...
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We introduce external risks, in the form of shocks to the level and volatility of world interest rates, into a small …
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The recent European economic crisis has dramatically exposed the failures of the various institutional mechanisms in place to maintain economic stability in Europe, and has unveiled the difficulty in achieving international coordination on fiscal and financial stability policies. Drawing on the...
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We build an agent-based dynamical system for the global economy to investigate and analyze financial crises. The agents are large aggregates of a subeconomy, and the global economy is a collection of subeconomies. We use well-known theories of dynamical systems to represent a financial crisis as...
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Financial markets have experienced unprecedented transformations, signs of which have emerged since the late 1970s. In recent years substantial consolidation occurred. In response to changes in macroeconomic variables, such as GDP, industrial production, inflation and the political business...
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Since the introduction of the Structural Adjustment Programs and subsequent World Bank and the IMF economic adjustment … that the Neo-liberal economic philosophies of the World Bank and the IMF have continued to damage countries, governments … economic crisis. In doing so, this paper argues that the implementation of World Bank and IMF policies have contributed …
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A crucial and outstanding issue for the European economy and democracy.In March 2009, the European Commission recognized the need to put "the interests of European investors, consumers and SMEs at the centre of the financial markets reform”. The Commission therefore announced it will "ensure...
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A large number of measures for monitoring risk and uncertainty surrounding macroeconomic and financial outcomes have been proposed in the literature, and these measures are frequently used by market participants, policy makers, and researchers in their analyses. However, risk and uncertainty...
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Stock-bond correlation is considered an important input for multi-asset portfolio construction. While there has been much research on US stockbond correlation, less work has focused on stock-bond correlations in other countries, their relationship to each other, and their common macroeconomic...
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To clarify the causal links between financial activity and economic growth, a series of path models is estimated for a pooled sample of 93 countries between 1970 and 1990. A multi-wave 2SLQ-analysis shows that during the 1970's and 1980's finance was predominantly a supply-leading determinant of...
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