The paper examines a game-theoretic evolutionary model of anasset market with endogenous equilibrium asset prices. Assetspay dividends that are partially consumed and partially rein-vested. The investors use general, adaptive strategies (portfo-lio rules), distributing their wealth between...

Some ten years ago, Michael Dooley (Dooley, 1997; Dooley, 2000) put forwardan insurance model of currency crises, which after some modifications gives a goodtheoretical basis for explanation of the overall dynamics of the post communist transformationand diversity across countries and periods. The...

The Bulgarian monetary system was established, immediately after independence.Having experienced it already under Ottoman rule, newly independent Bulgaria adopted thebimetallic standard. Without being a member of the Latin Monetary Union, it tried broadlyto follow the principles of the...

The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financialintegration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to threedifferent geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...

This paper uses firm-level data on 162 large Hungarian enterprises to analyse the relationship betweenownership structure and corporate performance in 1998 and 1999. Cross-sectional regressions are runfor each of these years using the return on assets (ROA) as the measure of performance. Both...

This paper examines the impact of agency conicts on corporate nancing decisions. Werst build a dynamic contingent claims model in which nancing policy results from a trade-obetween tax benets, contracting frictions, and agency conicts. In our setting, partially-entrenched managers set the rms'...

This paper aims to open a new avenue for research in continuoustimenancial market models with endogenous prices and heterogenousinvestors. The main result is the derivation of the limit of a discretetimeevolutionary stock market model as the length of the time periodtends to zero.[...]