A series of recent studies analyze the impact of financial crisis on the fiscal soundness in the Euro area countries. Even if their documented results present the transmission mechanisms of the financial instability toward the fiscal sector, a more realistic problem is related to the...

The speculative bubbles of asset prices, and especially their burst out, have a negative impact on the financial stability. As a consequence, a close observation of these prices is necessary. If the opportunity of the intervention is intensely analyzed, the debates related to the instruments of...

This paper briefly tries to define the fundamentals underlying capital structure theories and evaluates whether some a priori assumed macroeconomic determinants can be related to the leverage parameters of interest examined in the paper. For this purpose, we conduct an empirical research that...

This paper briefly tries to define the fundamentals underlying capital structure theories and evaluates whether some a priori assumed macroeconomic determinants can be related to the leverage parameters of interest examined in the paper. For this purpose, we conduct an empirical research that...

This paper tests for budget balance of 12 European countries over the period 1999:1-2013:2 by the Sequential Panel Selection Method (SPSM) developed by Chortareas and Kapetanios (2009) using the Panel KSS test with a Fourier function. This article analyses both Kapetanios et al. (2003,...

This paper examines the relationship of corruption with democracy and bureaucracy in the 82 countries in a panel framework. For the analysis we use rule of law, regulatory quality, control over corruption and secondary school enrollment ratio as control variables. We find that democracy, rule of...