Deteriorating public finances around the world raise doubts about countries' abilities to bail out their largest banks …

Between 1999 and 2008, world oil prices more than quadrupled in real terms. For oil importers, vulnerability to oil … domestic product. Oil intensity fell in more than half the countries in every income group and in every region of the world … pass-through to consumers of increases in world prices of gasoline, diesel, kerosene, and liquefied petroleum gas between …

investigate the impact of the volatility of investment returns on replacement rates in the context of personal pension plans. They … annuities. The first three strategies lower the volatility of replacement rates, but at significant cost in terms of lower … lowering their level - because of the persistence of the equity premium and the fact that the volatility of equity returns is …

ratings after controlling for changes in the world weighted average rating. When relative ratings in 2012 are compared with … the first half of 2008, the world average rating is found to be weaker because of the financial crisis. The relative …