The tourism industry is very important to the economic prosperity of a country, even in a period of economic crisis. In last decade, tourism industry of Greece, which contributes significantly to the country's economy, faced many problems challenges during the economic crisis. To shed light on...

We study how income inequality affects monetary policy through the inequality-household debt channel. We design a minimal macro Agent-Based model that replicates several stylized facts, including two novel ones: falling aggregate saving rate and decreasing bankruptcies during the household's...

This paper studies, theoretically and empirically, the unintended consequences of mandatory retention rules in securitization. The Dodd-Frank Act and the EU Securitisation Regulation both impose a 5% mandatory retention requirement to motivate screening and monitoring. I first propose a novel...

The aim of this paper is to ascertain corporate investment reaction in bank-dependent companies in times of crisis. Our investigation covers the differences in corporate investment reaction due to the global financial crisis (GFC) of 2007-2009 and the COVID-19 crisis of 2020–2021. We utilized...