The purpose of this paper is to analyze the performance, the risk-taking level and the credit growth of fourteen emerging and developed countries' banks. Also, we aim to assess the influence of monetary policy on the bank lending channel in both pre- and post-crisis periods and whether this...

In this paper we extract the factors that shape the yield curve and we relate them with macroeconomy. We examine whether the term structure can predict future economic activity by applying a range of econometric approaches both in pre- and post- crisis periods. Furthermore, we assess the...

In this paper, we examine the effectiveness of monetary policies in selected countries of the Euro area (France, Germany, and Italy), the United States and the United Kingdom for the period from 1990 to 2013. We additionally focus on the 2007 financial crisis where the efficacy of both...

The global financial and the European debt crises categorized as Minsky's moments present the physical laboratory for studying contagion cross country and cross market. Our research based on the twin sovereign-banking crisis evolution of the euro debt crisis era, focuses on addressing the...

The global financial and the European debt crises categorized as Minsky's moments present the physical laboratory for studying spillover effects cross country and cross market. Our research based on the twin sovereign-banking crisis evolution of the euro debt crisis era, focuses on addressing...

A recent line of research deals with the formulation, the justification and the modelling of a crisis triggered by involved economic agents. Modelling financial crises within an asymmetric information environment is argued to be a difficult task since the measurement of adverse selection and/or...

Under the context of EMU debt and financial crisis we assess the impact of EMU's legislative initiative on Tobin tax for financial regulation. Specifically we focus on its impact on bond and equity volatility for a representative basket of 7 countries: Germany, France (core EMU) and Greece,...

We research the association of the sovereign crisis stemming from periphery EMU countries and monetary policy in terms of financial stability. Empirical results are derived on the linkage of monetary policy reflected through interbank lending rates i.e. banking sector fragility to long term...

We conduct an international analysis of the cross-sectional risk premiums of uncertainty risk factors in addition to traditional risk factors. We consider the stock markets in five regions separately. Internationally, uncertainty has negative risk premiums which is similar to previous findings...