Essays about: "cause of us financial crisis"
Found 4 essays containing the words cause of us financial crisis.
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1. The Panic of 1857 in the absence of a National Bank
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Research on financial crises is important and especially relevant nowadays when the economy is slowing down globally. The crisis 2007-8 and the Great Depression of the 20th century are the longest and most severe financial calamities ever experienced and they share some eerie similarities with the Panic of 1857 – they all originate in the US but have international implications because they take place in a world of interconnected trade. READ MORE
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2. The exposure to illiquidity of stocks - a study of the determinants with a focus on the 2007-2009 financial crisis
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This paper investigates the determinants of stocks' exposure to illiquidity in the US stock market. The periods that are examined are the financial crisis of 2007-2009 and the non-crisis period of 2005-2007. READ MORE
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3. Financial Innovation and Long Cycles in the US: The emergence and changing nature of financial instruments in relation to the technology shift
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : Financial Innovation: cause or consequence? The recent financial crisis and subsequent investigation into to its causes leads many to propose that the primary suspect of instability is financial innovation itself. This paper introduces an alternative perspective that relates the perennially changing nature of financial innovation to the location of its emergence along the ‘technology shift’. READ MORE
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4. Crisis in Eastern Europe: Self-inflicted or just bad luck?
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomiAbstract : Using a sample of sixteen countries in Eastern Europe, we investigate whether economic fundamentals explain why some countries have suffered more than others in the current financial crisis, or whether the variation just reflects contagion. The theory is that countries with weak fundamentals, captured by an appreciated real exchange rate and a weak banking system, and low levels of foreign exchange reserves are more vulnerable to a currency crisis, measured as an index of the nominal exchange rate depreciation and changes in reserves. READ MORE