The purpose of the article is to analyze and assess situation market for environmental goods services in EU as well formation its support regulation system.
 Methodology: has experienced dynamic growth development last two decades, especially economically developed countries. research concerns peculiarities organic products market, sources production EU. uses desk method, which provides a ...

RESERVE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND: Bulletin Vol. 66 No. 1 1 In t roduc t ion In modern market-based economies, day-to-day activity involves many millions of transactions for goods, services and financial assets, the payment for which results in the transfer of money. In New Zealand, a total of around $35 billion is processed through domestic payment systems on average every business day, equivalent t...

Social media-based forecasting has received significant attention from academia and industries in recent years. With a focus on Twitter, this paper investigates whether sentiments of the tweets regarding the 7 largest US financial service companies (in U.S. dollars) are related to the stock price changes of these companies. The authors’ findings indicate, in the financial services context, nega...

— Because large state-owned banks are often the only financial service providers in remote areas of low-income countries, policymakers worry that even if privatization improves performance, it might reduce access. We study this issue through a case study: the privatization of Uganda Commercial Bank (UCB) to the South African bank Stanbic. Though market segmentation remains a concern since Stanb...

Financial market prediction is one of the most attractive research areas in financial data mining field because of its available data and potential profits. Financial market prediction has been paid much attention by many researchers and practitioners. Huge numbers of forecasting methods including judgmental methods and statistical methods have been proposed. In previous studies, judgmental met...

Several studies in the economic literature have examined the usefulness of leading indicators in forecasting GDP changes. The two main sources of information used in this direction are (a) indexes of consumer and business sentiment and (b) monetary and financial data. Consumer and business sentiment indexes are based on sample surveys conducted by both national statistical services and industry...

A new general model for asset returns is studied in the framework of the Fractal Market Hypothesis (FMH). To accomodate markets with arbitrage opportunities it concerns capital market systems in which the Conditionally Exponential Dependence (CED) property can be attached to each investor on the market. Emploing the limit theorem for the CED systems, the universal characteristics for the distri...

In this paper a new credit risk model for credit derivatives is presented. The model is based upon the ‘Libor market’ modelling framework for default-free interest rates. We model effective default-free forward rates and effective forward credit spreads as lognormal diffusion processes, and recovery is modelled as a fraction of the par value of the defaulted claim. The newly introduced survival...

Payments systems are typically characterized by some degree of tiering, with upstream firms (clearing agents) providing settlement accounts to downstream institutions that wish to clear and settle payments indirectly in these systems (indirect clearers). Clearing agents provide their indirect clearers with an essential input (clearing and settlement services), while also competing directly with...