This paper presents the most recent version of the quarterly Macroeconomic Model of the Ukrainian economy, its assumptions and possible applications. This model represents an unorthodox approach in analysing economies in transition. It covers transactions in both official and shadow economies....

The first essay studies the effects of exogenous and endogenous shocks on output sustainability in Central Eastern Europe and Russia during the 2000s. It expands traditional vector autoregressive model to a multi-country model that relates bank real lending, the cyclical component of output and...

In the literature, many statistical models have been used to investigate the existence of a deterministic time trend, changing persistence and nonlinearity in macroeconomic and financial data. Good understanding of these properties in a univariate time series model is crucial when making...

This thesis addresses three current issues in maritime economics by the applicationof semi-parametric estimations within a generalized additive model framework. First, this thesis shows that there are vessel and contract specific differences intime charter rates for dry bulk vessels. The...