The Vector Autoregressive (VAR) Models can be considered as a dynamic multivariate extension of the univariate autoregressive models. This family of models has become very popular in macroeconomics analysis after the ...

The importance of financial institutions as pivotal for the economy is largely acknowledged. Since they provide specific services, such as issuing loans and collecting deposits, and perform a number of peculiar functions, ...

Economists have long recognized that adverse shocks to the nancial sector can have signi cant e ects on the real economy. The chance that nancial instability will lead to macroeconomic instability is often termed ...

The integration of second generations is crucial for the well-being, the sta- bility and the social cohesion of the receiving societies. However, childhood years can be decisive for the development of a national identity ...

The research work arises from the interest in the dissemination of algorithms in modern financial markets... [edited by Author]

During the last three decades, transition economies in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have experienced important structural, institutional, and political reforms under the umbrella of shifting from state socialism to ...

This dissertation work deals with analysing more deeply the nature, motivations and effects, however measurable, of the unconventional monetary policies and it is aimed at addressing some questions about their adoption ...

Football has developed an increasing economic importance over the past years, demonstrated by an increasing capital markets presence and the rapid growth in the sports industry and its market (Bell et al., 2012). Since the ...