Neven Valev

Associate Professor of Economics
Georgia State University
404-413-0162
nvalev@gsu.edu


 

 

Financial economics

 

"Does One Size Fit All: A Reexamination of the Finance and Growth Relationship" (with Felix Rioja) Journal of Development Economics, 2004, link to journal article

 

"Finance and the Sources of Growth at various Stages of Economic Development" (with Felix Rioja) Economic Inquiry, 2004 link to journal article

 

"Financial Structure and the Sources of Economic Growth" (with Felix Rioja)

 

“Who is to Blame? The Composition of Rapid Credit Expansions and Banking Crises,” (with Berrak Buyukkarabacak) download

 

"Financial Development and Economic Growth in Bulgaria" download

 

The Hysterisis of Currency Substitution: Currency Risk vs. Network Externalities” download

 

Long-Term Credit – Determinants and Effects on Economic Growth” (with Nikola Tasic) download

 

“Who Gets the Credit: Household and Firm Credit Across Countries” (with Thorsten Beck, Berrak Buyukkarabacak and Felix Rioja) download

 

“The Provision of Long-Term Financing in the Transition Countries” (with Nikola Tasic) download

 

 

International Investment 

 

“International Lending by US Banks,” (with John Barron) Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2000. link to journal article  

 

“Uncertainty and the Maturity of International Credit” Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions & Money, 2006.  link to journal article

 

“Institutional Uncertainty and the Maturity of International Loans by U.S. Banks,” Journal of International Money and Finance, 2006. link to journal article

 

"Incentive Targeting, Influence Peddling, and Foreign Direct Investment" (with Kelly Edmiston and Shannon Mudd) International Tax and Public Finance, 2004  link to journal article

 

"Tax Structures and FDI: The Role of Complexity and Uncertainty" (with Kelly Edmiston and Shannon Mudd) Fiscal Studies, 2003 link to journal article

 

 

Exchange Rates

 

The Political Economy of Adopting the Euro in the EU Accession Countries” (with David Leblang and Jeff Frieden) download

 

"Monetary Unions and Central Bank Independence" (with Steven Buigut), World Development, forthcoming download

 

"Is the Proposed East African Monetary Union an Optimal Currency Area? A Structural Vector Autoregression Analysis"  (with Steven Buigut) World Development, 2005 link to journal article
 

"Eastern and Southern Africa Monetary Integration: A Structural Vector Autoregression Analysis" (with Steven Buigut) Review of Development Economics, 2006, link to journal article

 

“Credibility of a New Monetary Regime: The Currency Board in Bulgaria,” (with John Carlson) Journal of Monetary Economics, 2001. link to journal article


“Beliefs about Exchange Rate Stability: Survey Evidence from the Currency Board in Bulgaria,” (with John Carlson) Journal of Economic Policy Reform, 2007. link to journal article  

 

“A Disinflation Tradeoff: Speed versus Final Destination,” (with John Carlson) Economic Inquiry, 2002. link to journal article
 

 "Public Knowledge of Monetary Regimes: Evidence from the Currency Board in Bulgaria" Applied Economics Letters, forthcoming  download

 

“Fixed Exchange Rate Credibility with Heterogeneous Expectations,” (with John Carlson), Journal of Macroeconomics, 2008. link to journal  

 

"From a currency board to the euro: Public attitudes toward unilateral euroization in Bulgaria" Comparative Economic Studies, 2006 link to journal article

 

 

Other Issues:

 

"No Pain, No Gain: Market Reform, Unemployment, and Politics in Bulgaria" Journal of Comparative Economics, 2004  link to journal

 

“Age and Corruption,” (with Benno Torgler) Journal of Bioeconomics, 2006. link to journal article

 

“Public Attitudes toward Corruption and Tax Evasion: Investigating the Role of Gender over Time” (with Benno Torgler), download

 

“Sources of Dispersion in Economic Forecasts,” (with John Carlson) Applied Economics Letters, 2003  link to journal article

 

“IMF Conditionality and Objections: The Russian Case,” (with Jorge Martinez-Vasquez, Felix Rioja, and Samuel Skogstad). American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 2000. link to journal article