Global imbalances and global financial instability are tightly connected and can be traced to a common cause, that is, financial globalization within the current monetary and financial system. The paper argues that financial globalization contributes to global imbalances by impeding real...

Hyman Minsky and Charles Kindleberger discussed three different patterns of speculative bubbles, all of which appeared during the recent financial crisis: one when price rises in an accelerating way to crash sharply after reaching its peak as with oil peaking in July 2008, another when the price...

Surging growth and rising interdependence of East-Asian economies during the last two decades have heightened interest in monetary and financial integration. From 1985 to 2005, the share of intra-regional trade in total trade for the South-East and East Asian region (including Japan) grew from...

U.S. financial crisis triggered in the middle of 2007 set out in particular the interconnection between the compartments of the financial market, between the financial institution that operates on this market. The high interdependence of the participants on the market generates growth and...

We employ event study methodology to examine government policies aimed at rescuing banks from the effects of the 2008–2009 financial crisis. Announcements directed at the banking system as a whole were associated with positive cumulative abnormal returns, whereas announcements directed at...

This paper investigates the impact on financial stability of bank competition in emerging markets by taking into account crisis periods. Based on a broad set of commercial banks in Asia over the 1994–2009 period, the empirical results indicate that a higher degree of market power in the...

Until recently, in-patient NHS hospital care in Greece was reimbursed via an anachronistic and under-priced retrospective per diem system, which has been held primarily responsible for continuous budget deficits. The purpose of this paper is to present the efforts of the Ministry of Health (MoH)...

This study examines the role played by credit ratings in explaining corporate capital structure choice during a period characterised by a major adverse loan supply shock. Recent literature has argued that supply-side factors are potentially as important as demand-side forces in determining...

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2008/09, finance research has been criticized for an ineffective allocation of research efforts and a narrowing research focus. We address this discussion via a quantitative analysis of 4,064 articles published in the top four finance journals between 1988...

This paper addresses several key issues regarding the recent Great Crisis 2007- 2009. The main ones are: was the financial crisis predictable by standard economic models? If not, are these models lacking of forecasting capabilities, or it is not a task of economic models to predict external...