We explore a wide range of macroeconomic, fiscal and institutional factors in order to assess their relevance as determinants of financial development in MENA countries. A first interesting result is that bank and non-bank development are affected differently by the determinants under...

[eng] Economic theories indicate that long term interest rates correspond to the last and present short interest rates average. This result is a direct consequence of a refeering mechanism made by the financial markets operators, according to their own expectations. The expectation theory as a...

Zusammenfassung Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht die Entwicklung der Unternehmensinvestitionen in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland für den Zeitraum von 1968 bis 1989 auf der Basis von nicht saisonbereinigten Quartalsdaten. Dabei wird die Technik der saisonalen Kointegration im Rahmen eines...