Essays about: "sell-off"
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1. Inflation and Quantitative Tightening - A theoretical assessment of contractionary monetary policy and real economic activity
University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenAbstract : 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
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2. Carb-on or Carb-off? : Carbon-intensive stocks' performance in an age of socially responsible investing
University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomiAbstract : This study investigates the performance of carbon-intensive stocks in the United States and provides evidence of abnormal returns between 2000 and 2019. However, these abnormal returns are isolated to the period 2000 to 2002 which coincides with the Dot-com crash. READ MORE
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3. Swedish Private Equity – A Reliable Source for IPO Pricing?
University essay from Lunds universitet/Företagsekonomiska institutionenAbstract : Title: Swedish Private Equity - A Reliable Source for IPO Pricing? Seminar date: 03/05/2020 Course: FEKH89, Bachelor Degree Project in Financial Management Undergraduate Level, 15 credits Authors: Johan Brown, Patrik Nilsson, Filip Wallersköld Supervisor: Anamaria Cociorva Key words: Underpricing, Information Asymmetry, Private Equity, IPO, Sweden Purpose: To explore if and why Private Equity-backed companies experience different levels of underpricing compared to its counterpart between 2009 and 2018 Methodology: Quantitative Research Theoretical approach: Previous research suggests that firms going public experience, on average, abnormal first day returns. One of the theories explaining this phenomena argues that underpricing is a result of informational asymmetry between investors. READ MORE
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4. Mean-Variance Portfolio Selection Accounting for Financial Bubbles: A Mean-Field Type Approach
University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistikAbstract : The phenomenon of financial bubbles is known to have impacted various markets since the seventeenth century. Such bubbles are known to form when the market drastically overvalues the price of an asset, causing its market value to increase hyperbolically, only to suddenly collapse once the untenable perceived future prospects of the asset are realized. READ MORE
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5. The Icelandic Banking Saga : The ways to deal or not to deal with a systemic banking crisis
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Juridiska institutionenAbstract : Every key feature of the Icelandic banking in the run-up to the 2008 year meltdown can be viewed as an emblem of the concept systemic banking crisis. The concept of a banking crisis is usually defined as “an event that shows significant signs of financial distress in the banking system and which is usually associated with significant bank runs, big losses in the banking system and bank liquidations. READ MORE
