Essays about: "The GFC"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 essays containing the words The GFC.

1. 1. Auditors' Risk- and Materiality Assessment During Times of High Exogenous Risk : A Quantitative Study Analysing the Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic

   University essay from Jönköping University/IHH, Företagsekonomi

   Author : Adam Brissman; Thomas Watson; [2023]
   Keywords : Auditing; Auditor Independence; Covid-19; Economic Crises; Materiality; Materiality Assessment; Professional Scepticism; Risk; Risk Assessment;

   Abstract : Background: Research has shown that the risk of material misstatements increases during exogenous risk shocks. Simultaneously, auditors shall identify and assess the emergent risks. During the GFC, auditors' response was considered satisfactory by some but criticized byothers. READ MORE

3. 2. Reforms, Risk and Arbitrage: The Impact of G20 Post-Crisis Reform Implementation on Systemic Risk and Arbitrage in Banking and Insurance

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

   Author : Patricia Vernholmen; [2022]
   Keywords : Financial Regulation; Systemic Risk; Reform Index; Arbitrage; GFC;

   Abstract : This thesis analyzes the effect of the implementation progress of the G20 post-crisis reform on systemic risk and bank foreign claims. First, indices measuring jurisdiction-level implementation progress of the reform and its different areas are constructed, and subsequently, SRISK, a common measure of systemic risk is regressed on these indices and other regulatory variables in a fixed effects regression. READ MORE

4. 3. Inflation and Quantitative Tightening - A theoretical assessment of contractionary monetary policy and real economic activity

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Carl Sandström; [2022]
   Keywords : Inflation; Unconventional Monetary Policy; Real Economic Activity; DSGE; The U.S Economy; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : Following the associated lockdown measures of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, the world economy started facing inflationary pressures from a surge in energy prices and supply chain disruptions at the end of 2021. Given the economic environment with low inflation and expansionary monetary policy following the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), central banks around the world have built up large balance sheets following the unconventional measure called Quantitative Easing (QE). READ MORE

5. 4. Exchange Rates and Trade Flows : An Econometric Analysis of Structural Breaks in the Swedish Trade

   University essay from Uppsala universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Lars Winnansson; [2022]
   Keywords : structural breaks; exchange-rates; trade-balance; imports; exports;

   Abstract : This study examines the relationship between the real exchange rate and the trade flows of Sweden in the presence of so-called structural breaks. The purpose is rooted in the hypothesis that the real exchange rate has been disconnected from global trade flows in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008. READ MORE

6. 5. Covid-19, quantitative easing, and the awakening of abnormal returns at the Swedish stock market

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Nationalekonomi

   Author : Emily Lindzén; Sofia Åhrman; [2022]
   Keywords : Quantitative easing; Austrian business cycle Theory; Financial instability hypothesis; Speculative bubbles; Covid-19; Abnormal returns; Kvantitativa lättnader; Österrikiska konjunkturcykelteorin; Finansiella instabilitets hypotesen; Spekulativa bubblor; Covid-19; Abnorm avkastning;

   Abstract : This thesis aims to investigate to what extent the quantitative easing monetary policy tool, applied by the Riksbank, contributed to abnormal returns at the Swedish stock market during Covid-19. The chosen time period is 2007-2022, including the period before and after the implementation of quantitative easing in Sweden in 2015. READ MORE