After the collapse of the Communist regimes, the countries of the former Soviet Union found themselves with only a very small amount of goods to supply to the global market. An economy of this type is nothing more than a 'necroeconomy.' Dead firms ('zombie-firms') do exist and 'successfully'...

Currently, the Black Sea Region1 is not as integrated economically as to allow one to outline some common development trends of all regional economies. The most of the region's nations (Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Serbia, and Ukraine), except Greece...

The financial collapse of 2007 witnessed free fall of “debt-financed euphoria” caused by complex set of regulations and policies, enacted to direct modern capitalism. The action and policies of regulatory institutions facilitated financial institutions to indulge in risky lending and thus,...

The contemporary financial crisis has transformed into economic crisis. The occurrence of financial crises has encouraged the emergence of a kind of routine which guarantees the stability of a government's bailout programmes implemented through the banking sector in support of de-facto bankrupt...

This paper assesses why the 2008–2009 global economic recession impacted East Asia less than it did the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). The paper utilizes a “growth-with-resilience” (GWR) index aimed at measuring the extent to which a country can absorb or counteract...

This paper investigates the link between financial crises in developing countries and the variation of bank deposits in offshore financial centers. Using both a two-way fixed effects and a stacked difference-in-differences estimator, we find that after three years since the beginning of the...

On February 12, 2010, SUERF, the Oesterreichische Nationalbank and the Bankwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft continued their established tradition of jointly organised conferences. As evidenced also by the 115 conference participants, this year's subject of "Contagion and Spillovers – New...

Maximizing output without taking into consideration the negative externalities generated, including the harm to the mental and physical health of the population creates psychological stress. Focusing on the bellwether indicators of economic performance including working more, generating income,...

The paper investigates whether institutional independence contributes positively to central bank responses to economic emergencies. The paper examines evidence of central bank responses to the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 to investigate correlation between independence and...