This paper analyzes the public debt situation in Japan, Germany and the United States by reflecting their respective debt history and by analyzing whether the governments pursue a sustainable debt policy. Starting point of the analysis are theoretical considerations about conditions guaranteeing...

This paper examines the impact of financing on the performance of a two-level supply chain consisting of a supplier and a budget-constrained retailer. To carry out our study, we set up a three-stage Stackelberg game under a wholesale price contract with a financial market. We show that financing...

This paper shows how the richer frequency and variety of fiscal policy shocks available in an international sample can be analyzed recognizing the heterogeneity that exists across different countries. The main conclusion of our empirical analysis is that the question 'what is the fiscal policy...

This paper investigates the financial determinants of investment decisions made by Slovenian family farms during the transition to a market economy in the period 1994-2003. Results from standard and augmented accelerator models indicate that farms’ investment decisions were based on market...

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to study the capital structure of firms when controlling shareholders decide on the level of debt financing in an environment with poor legal protection. Design/methodology/approach–Theoretically this paper uses a dynamic model to analyze how the...

The main objective of this paper is to examine the sustainability of the Turkish current account deficit after 2008 crisis while considering the structural changes caused by 1994 and 2001 crises. This study is based on Husted’s (1992) intertemporal model and examines the long-run relation...