Modelling Financial Stability Index for Latvian Financial System

A Financial Stability Index for Israel

An integral financial stability index is constructed using Israel macroeconomic data. Approaches relying on the use of dependent variable as well as principal component method and its modifications are examined. Obtained indexes are compared in terms of their forecast quality. In the case of no dependent variable the influence of structural shift is analyzed. © 2014 The Authors. Published by El...

Monitoring Financial System Stability

Impact of Global Financial Crises on Global Financial Stability and Need for an Alternative Financial System*

Th e main objective of this paper is to highlight the importance of the fi nancial stability of the global fi nancial system particularly aft er the recent global fi nancial crisis of 200809. Th e major causes of diff erent fi nancial crises possess the same pattern of greed among investors, ineffi ciency of government regulators, central banks and other stakeholders. Th ey have miserably faile...

Maintaining Stability in a Changing Financial System

the recent turmoil in global financial markets, associated with the u.S. subprime mortgage crisis, has raised important questions about the stability and integrity of the new international financial structure. these events represent the first real stress test of the world’s financial system since the late 1990s when the asian financial crisis, Russian debt default, and long-term capital Managem...

The Stability of the Financial System

It is an honour to be here today at the University of Sydney delivering the eighteenth R.C. Mills Memorial Lecture. It is customary to start a Memorial Lecture by paying homage to the person in whose memory the lecture is held, but I would like to break with tradition and do that a little later where it fits in more naturally. On nearly every occasion when I speak before an audience such as thi...