The banking and currency crises of the last two decades inflictedsubstantial financial, economic, and social damage on thecountries in which they originated. In this work, the efficiencyof early warning indicators for these disastrous economic eventsis evaluated. An analysis of the traditional...

Hedge fund industry has grown to be a key player in the financial markets. Just as large investment banks, the failure of this industry will greatly destroy the liquidity and stability of the whole system. However, contrast to regulated mutual funds, hedge funds are private and lightly regulated...

Introduction: A mere decade ago Japan’s financial system, and especially its banking system, was not only the largest but the strongest in the world. Nine of the world’s top ten banks in asset size were Japanese; the Big Four Japanese securities companies were the world’s largest; and its...

Is foreign direct investment (FDI) more resilient at the onset of an economic crisis and the subsequent economic collapse in a given host country compared to other forms of foreign capital inflows? Are affiliates of multinational enterprises in a crisis-hit country better equipped to withstand a...

The 1980s and 1990s have been marked with a series of financial and banking crises all over the world. This turned the attention of economists to such questions as how a financial system should be structured in order to reduce the vulnerability of an economy to the risk of a crisis, or what...

En este estudio se propone un análisis econométrico de la evolución del crédito bancario al sector privado con el objetivo de describir los ciclos de crédito e identificar, por ejemplo, las fases de crecimiento anormalmente bajo, como las que suelen asociarse con episodios de crisis...

Diese Arbeit besteht aus drei, sich unabhängig voneinander erschließenden Artikeln,die sich alle mit dem Thema Risikomanagement in der Bankenindustrie befassen. Im ersten Artikel (Kapitel 2) werden die vier zur Zeit in der Praxis am häufigstenverwendeten Kreditrisikomodelle analysiert. Fokus...

Ever since the beginning of the nineties, interconnection pricing emerged as a high priority regulatory policy question. As more and more state-owned monopolies were privatized, their essential facility (or simply their network) had to be opened to competition. The most viable practice was...