This paper argues that the re-emergence of stagnation tendencies in modern capitalism can be related to financialisation and its macroeconomic failures leading to the recent crises, and in particular to the macroeconomic responses towards the crisis and the respective regime shifts in mature...

Empirical studies have uncovered an inverted-U relationship between product-market competition and innovation. This is inconsistent with the original Schumpeterian Model, where greater competition reduces the profitability of innovation. We show that the model can predict the inverted-U if the...

An important strand of research in macro-finance investigates which factors impede enterprise investment, and quantifies their aggregate cost. In this paper, we make two contributions to this literature. The first contribution is methodological: we introduce a novel framework to calibrate...

The American economy has lurched from crisis to crisis for over a decade, enduring long stretches of high unemployment, market dysfunction, and ineffective government policy. Despite the enormous scale of this suffering and disruption, the full implications of the experience have not been...

The European market has been served by regulated and licensed e-money tokens (EMTs) since 2019, contradicting the claim that legal clarity is needed for EMTs. Despite the well-functioning e-money legislation, the EU Parliament will vote on a new regulation specifically for EMTs as part of the...

Empirical studies have uncovered an inverted-U relationship between product-market competition and innovation. This is inconsistent with the original Schumpeterian Model, where greater competition reduces the profitability of innovation. We show that the model can predict the inverted-U if the...

Nowadays, non-financial corporations invest heavily in financial assets, questioning the traditional boundaries of non-financial firms. We investigate how economic policy uncertainty affects firms' holding of non-currency financial assets and portfolios of such assets in China. We find that...

Waqf have a potential to become one of the important mechanisms regarding the socioeconomics realms in Muslim societies that will benefit the communities as a whole. This objective of study is to examine the influence of corporate waqf by subsidiaries of JCorp in enhancing the company...

In the wake of the global financial crisis, the need for systemic risk mitigation in the shadow banking system is resoundingly evident. The task at hand is incomplete, leaving grey areas such as hedge funds obfuscated. I contend it is both timely and relevant to revisit hedge fund regulatory...

This study aims to verify if there is a negative relation between the investment of Brazilian companies and the impeachment of former president Dilma Rousseff. The period of analysis considers three previous (2013-2015) and subsequent (2016-2018) years to impeachment. As a result, although...