Uncertainty Shocks and Corporate Borrowing Constraints by Ahmed Kamara, Niraj P. Koirala

“…We find that the quantitative framework that incorporates only one instrument (capital or earnings) in the borrowing constraint falls short in matching the business cycle properties of the US economy in terms of the behavior of output, inflation, and the price markup which are an essential part of the literature on uncertainty shocks. …”
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The Determinants of Banking Performance in Front of Financial Changes: Case of Trade Banks in Tunisia by Makram Ahmed NOUAILI, Ezzeddine ABAOUB, Anis OCHI

“…While, bank size, concentration index and efficiency are negatively related with performance indicators (measured by NIM, LIQ, ROA and ROE).As for the macroeconomic determinants, our analysis showed that the business cycle, measured by the growth of the GDP is supposed to be favorable to the improvement of the performance of the banks and negative relationship was found with inflation rate.Those variables have to arouse the interest of the decision-makers of economic and restructuring policies to direct their strategies and aiming corrective actions to promote the performance of banking and financial systems.…”
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COMPARING EFFICIENCY OF TAX DEBT COLLECTION IN GERMANY, POLAND AND THE UNITED KINGDOM by Małgorzata Magdalena Hybka

“…One of the most important determinants of the efficiency of tax revenue collection is the business cycle. Due to liquidity problems of entrepreneurs, increased tax evasion rates, decline in taxpayers’ income and consumption an economic crisis may lead to substantial increase in tax arrears. …”
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On the Network Transmission Mechanisms of Disease-Specific Healthcare Expenditure Spillovers: Evidence from the Connectedness Network Analyses by Wen-Yi Chen

“…Our results indicate that demographic transition and business cycles are key factors increasing interconnectedness of different disease-specific healthcare expenditures, and that promotion of primary care utilization would reduce total healthcare expenditure spillovers. …”
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Fiscal Policy and Economic Stability: A Case of Pakistan by Farhan Ahmed, Suman Talreja, Yasir Aman, Govinda Lohana

“…The findings help stakeholders to understand how the overall fiscal policy affects the economic and business cycle of the country and how each individual is affected by the decisions made by the government executives in constituting the fiscal policy.…”
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Capital Buffers and Bank Risk: Empirical Study of Adjustment of Pakistani Banks by Umara Noreen, Fizza Alamdar, Tabassum Tariq

“…Present study is gauged to assess the relationship of capital buffer and risk over the business cycle. Panel data of 24 commercial banks has been analyzed over the period of 2007-2012 by applying Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM). …”
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Business Survey Data in Forecasting Macroeconomic Indicators with Combined Forecasts by Piotr Białowolski, Tomasz Kuszewski, Bartosz Witkowski

“…The models failed to forecast especially at the verge of the crisis when the information on upcoming peak in the business cycle would be of the highest value. This situation was a stimulus to undertake research oriented at creating a family of models that would react faster and with higher precision to dynamic changes in the economic environment. …”
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How Does The Changes in Monetary Policy Affect Lending Behavior of Islamic Banking in Malaysia by Fathin Faizah Said, Abd Ghafar Ismail

“…This paper tries to analyse the role of Islamic banks in the transmission of monetary policy and business cycle. This study will only analyse the Islamic banking in Malaysia. …”
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Capital Buffers and Bank Risk: Empirical Study of Adjustment of Pakistani Banks by Umara Noreen, Fizza Alamdar, Tabassum Tariq

“…Present study is gauged to assess the relationship of capital buffer and risk over the business cycle. Panel data of 24 commercial banks has been analyzed over the period of 2007-2012 by applying Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM). …”
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The extraction of aggregates in Serbia, 1973 - 2015: A statistical exploration by Andrić Vladimir, Andrić Ljubiša, Radulović Dragan

“…Our cliometric estimates are in great accordance with the major business cycle facts of the Serbian economy in the last 40 years. …”
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH IN MACROECONOMICS, A SURVEY ON RECENT DEVELOPMENTS by Saeed Moshiri

“…Keynesian and classics, and quickly turn to Post-Keynesian, New Classics, New Keynesian, and real business cycle approaches. I then briefly touch upon the game theory, growth, general equilibrium, and computational models and their applications in macroeconomics. …”
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MACROECONOMIC FACTORS OF NON-PERFORMING LOANS IN COMMERCIAL BANKS by Ričardas Mileris

“…Conversely, it has been estimated that banking systems in the EU countries with developed economies are not very sensitive to the business cycle fluctuations. So, in Lithuanian banks, when managing credit risk, the consideration of economic conditions is very important. …”
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How Does The Changes in Monetary Policy Affect Lending Behavior of Islamic Banking in Malaysia by Fathin Faizah Said, Abd Ghafar Ismail

“…This paper tries to analyse the role of Islamic banks in the transmission of monetary policy and business cycle. This study will only analyse the Islamic banking in Malaysia. …”
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How Does Credit Supply Expansion Affect the Real Economy? The Productive Capacity and Household Demand Channels by Verner, Emil

“…Such credit expansions amplify the business cycle and lead to more severe recessions.…”
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Confidence and the Propagation of Demand Shocks by Angeletos, George-Marios, Lian, Chen

“…<jats:title>Abstract</jats:title> <jats:p>We revisit the question of why shifts in aggregate demand drive business cycles. Our theory combines intertemporal substitution in production with rational confusion, or bounded rationality, in consumption and investment. …”
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What Can We Learn from Sign-Restricted VARs? by Wolf, Christian K

“…<jats:p> I use a simple business cycle model to illustrate the workings and limitations of sign restrictions in structural vector autoregressions. …”
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Essays on debt markets by Xu, Yu, Chen, Hui, Yang, Jun, Passadore, Juan

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Trade integration amongst APEC : realism in near future? by Chua, Hui Ling., Lim, Pei Wen., Wong, Siang Leng.

“…Prior to our regression, we conducted a Bartlett Kernel test and found that our model is stationary. Theoretically, business cycle of countries converges with facilitation of trade. …”
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INVESTOR SENTIMENT ON THE U.S DOMESTIC EQUITY-BASED MUTUAL FUND by , Wirawan Sasongko, , Prof. Dr. Basu Swastha Dharmmesta, MBA.

“…period! set!by!NBER!business! cycle,!while! investor! sentiment! is! proxy! …”

Profitability of the Korean banking sector: panel evidence on bank-specific and macroeconomic determinants by Sufian, Fadzlan

“…The impacts of credit risk and overhead costs are always negative whether we control for the macroeconomic and financial conditions or not. Business cycle effects, particularly inflation, display a substantial pro-cyclical impact on bank profitability. …”
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