Risk, uncertainty, and leverage

K Istiak, A Serletis - Economic modelling, 2020 - Elsevier
Using mostly theoretical models and traditional risk/uncertainty measures (VIX index, panic,
precaution, scary bad news, etc.), the current literature tries to clarify the risk/uncertainty …

[HTML][HTML] Financial intermediary leverage and monetary policy transmission

Z Li - European Economic Review, 2022 - Elsevier
Monetary policy is more effective when financial intermediaries have a higher equity share
in their total assets. When the leverage ratio is one standard deviation below average, the …

Relationship between economic policy uncertainty and domestic credits: evidence from the long-span time series for the UK and the USA

G Gozgor, K Istiak - Applied economics, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the effects of news-based economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on
domestic credit in the United Kingdom and the United States from 1900 to 2020. The …

Monetary policy and economic fluctuations

C Dery, A Serletis - Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2024 - cambridge.org
We assess the responses of output and inflation to monetary policy shocks in the context of a
Bayesian, monetary structural vector autoregressive model. We allow money supply and …

Interest rates, house prices, fertility, and the macroeconomy

E Affuso, K Istiak, J Swofford - Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 2022 - mdpi.com
This study differentiates between housing wealth and financial wealth and investigates
whether changes in house prices and changes in interest rates have positive effects on the …

Psychological Factors of Canadian and Mexican tourists and the US tourism sector

K Istiak - Tourism Economics, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper investigates the impact of psychological factors of Canadian and Mexican tourists
on the US tourism sector. Using the data of 1996–2019, the study uses vector …

Disentangling the effects of uncertainty, monetary policy and leverage shocks on the economy

C Dery, A Serletis - Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we assess the information content and predictive ability of various risk and
uncertainty measures in predicting various measures of real economic activity as well as …

The nature of shadow bank leverage shocks on the macroeconomy

K Istiak - The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2019 - Elsevier
Recently a group of non-bank financial institutions, known as the shadow banks, has
developed beside the traditional commercial banking sector in the US. Based on the …

Risk, uncertainty and the tourism sector of North Africa

K Istiak - African Development Review, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates, for the first time, the uncertainty on the tourism of North Africa and
uncertainty on the second‐degree effects of the North African tourism sector. The study uses …

Money growth variability and output: evidence with credit card-augmented Divisia monetary aggregates

J Liu, A Serletis - Studies in Nonlinear Dynamics & Econometrics, 2020 - degruyter.com
We reexamine the effects of the variability of money growth on output, raised by Mascaro
and Meltzer (1983), in the era of the increasing use of alternative payments, such as credit …