Essays about: "The GFC"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 14 essays containing the words The GFC.

1. 6. What Enabled the Rapid Swedish M&A Recovery During the Covid-19 Crisis? A Qualitative Research Study Regarding the M&A Recovery in Sweden during 2020 Compared to Previous Crises

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Josefine Gillbrand; Ebba Tiger Nilson; [2021-06-24]
   Keywords : M A recovery; Covid-19; The IT Bubble; The GFC; Liquidity; Private Capital;

   Abstract : The mergers and acquisitions (M&A) recovery after the Covid-19 crisis’ outbreak in 2020 is considered remarkably rapid compared to earlier crises as the recovery occurred in months instead of years. There are several explanations for this but they apply mainly to the global and American M&A market and some are exclusively reasons for the American M&A recovery. READ MORE

3. 7. Executive Compensation and Earnings Management - A study of Swedish companies during the Global Financial Crisis

   University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Graduate School

   Author : Victor Johansson; [2021-06-24]
   Keywords : Accruals-based earnings management; real earnings management; executive compensation; global financial crisis;

   Abstract : This study examines the impact of executive short-term cash compensation on earnings management and how the relationship is influenced by an economic crisis, the global financial crisis. For a sample of Swedish listed firms between 2005-2012, I find evidence of a negative association between executive compensation and accruals-based earnings management, but comparing the crisis period to the period before I find a positive association that is stronger during the crisis than in the period before. READ MORE

4. 8. How much new information does a credit rating announcement convey to the financial markets? : A comparison before and after the 2008 global financial crisis

   University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

   Author : Simon Otterberg; August Zetterberg; [2020]
   Keywords : Event study; finance; credit rating; credit rating agency; information content; stock market;

   Abstract : Background: The credit rating agencies have been heavily contested and criticized. In addition to this, other informational sources may potentially deliver the information that the CRA is intended to provide. This may have changed their role in reducing information asymmetry in the financial market. READ MORE

5. 9. Neighbours, but yet different? Scandinavian stock market volatility and its drivers under different regimes. A GARCH-MIDAS approach

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Buelent Uendes; [2019]
   Keywords : Scandinavia; Stock market; Volatility; GARCH-MIDAS; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : This study is an initial attempt to investigate the differences and similarities of the stock market volatilities in Scandinavia with respect to their drivers. Using the GARCH-MIDAS (Mixed Data Sampling) framework, this paper evaluates the explanatory value of various variables originating from different areas, covering the period from February 1998 to December 2018. READ MORE

6. 10. Remote sensing methods for detecting deforestation and illegal logging in Bosnia and Herzegovina

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

   Author : Ana Gebert; [2019]
   Keywords : Bosnia and Herzegovina BiH ; Canton Sarajevo; illegal logging; remote sensing; deforestation; Global Forest Change GFC ; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

   Abstract : With the rapid and alarming rate at which forests are disappearing around the world, it is of great importance to effectively estimate loss of forest cover due to different causes. Among those causes illegal logging is a particularly enigmatic and dangerous one made well-known by the destruction of the tropical rainforests of South America and Southeast Asia. READ MORE