This paper studies the globalisation of CPI inflation by analysing core, energy and food components, testing for structural breaks in the relationships between domestic inflation and a corresponding country-specific foreign inflation series at the monthly frequency for OECD countries.The...

This study aims to investigate the cost efficiency of Turkish commercial banks over the restructuring period of the Turkish banking system, which coincides with the 2008 financial global crisis and the 2010 European sovereign debt crisis. To this end, within the stochastic frontier framework, we...

This study explores the empirical validity of the purchasing power parity (PPP) hypothesis between Turkey and its four major trading partners, the European Union, Russia, China and the US. Accounting for the nonlinear nature of real exchange rates, we employ a battery of recently developed...

Why does venture capital work in some countries but not in others? This clinical study of the first German venture capital firm examines the difficulties of creating a venture capital market in a bank-based financial system. The analysis identifies the problem of creating appropriate governance...

In dieser Arbeit wird anhand eines Ratio-Form-Ansatzes gezeigt, wie sich Unterschiede in den aggregierten Konsumfunktionen der 10 westdeutschen Bundesländer ökonometrisch darstellen lassen. Mit Hilfe eines Chow-Tests, der Berechnung kurz- und langfristiger Konsumquoten und verschiedener...

In dieser Arbeit wird die Schätzmethode der Verallgemeinerten Momente (Generalized Method of Moments - GMM) vorgestellt. Neben der formalen Darstellung wird besonderes Augenmerk auf die notwendige Schätzung der Gewichtungsmatrix und auf Testmethoden im Rahmen der GMM gelegt. Anhand einer...

This paper introduces a multivariate kernel based forecasting tool for the prediction of variance-covariance matrices of stock returns. The method introduced allows for the incorporation of macroeconomic variables into the forecasting process of the matrix without resorting to a decomposition of...