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Showing 1 to 20 of 72 for “"2008 Financial crisis"”.
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Two Papers of Financial Engineering Relating to the Risk of the 2007--2008 Financial Crisis
This dissertation studies two financial engineering and econometrics problems relating to two facets of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. In the first part, we construct the Spatial Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Spatial Arbitrage Pricing Theory to characterize the risk premiums of futures …
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The Federal Banking Regulators: Agency Capture, Regulatory Failure, And Industry Collapse During The 2008 Financial Crisis
… bank regulatory agencies leading up to the 2008 financial crisis: the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Federal Reserve, The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and The Office of Thrift Supervision. Though public administration and policy scholars have moved away from capture …
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The Figures of Crisis: The Reflections of the 2008 Financial Crisis as Ideological Discourse of Capitalism
In this dissertation, the reflections on the 2008 financial crisis by Henry Paulson, Timothy Geithner and Ben Bernanke are read as literary texts with formal features that perform an ideological function. Their memoirs of the financial crisis contain a set of figures and formal elements that create …
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"Dashed hopes, bruised egos": Professional identity in investment banking in the context of the 2008 financial crisis
The financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent economic collapse has helped bring scholarly attention on a sociological dimension of financial markets (Mackenzie 2009, Stark 2009, Knorr Cetina and Preda 2012). Despite recent research advancements in this area, however, the understanding of how …
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Revolution of the right: explaining the rise of the front national in light of the 2008 financial crisis
… due to the economic mismanagement during the financial crisis of 2008, so it was more susceptible to growing strength of a far right party. </p>
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Capital structure and determinants of capital structure, before, during and after the 2008 financial crisis: A South African study
This study examines the effects of 2007/8 financial crisis on capital structure determinants of Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) listed companies in South Africa. Data extracted from INET BFA Expert database was analyzed using regression models on the correlation between the leverage and company …
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An Investigation of the Impact of the 2008 Financial Crisis and Stock Market Automation on Market Efficiency: A Case for the Botswana Stock Exchange
This study investigates the effects of the 2008 financial crisis and stock market automation on the efficiency of the Botswana Stock Exchange (BSE). It makes use of the BSE All Share Index (ALSI) logged returns covering the time period 2005 – 2017. In addition, four distinct tests are employed to …
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A critical evaluation of banking resolution measures in a context of crisis. Lessons from the resolution of Anglo Irish Bank during the 2008 financial crisis
… the resolution of Anglo Irish Bank during the 2008 financial crisis, in order to evaluate the six resolution tools that are defined in the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (Directive 2014/59/EU) and that are integrated within the Single Resolution Mechanism. The analysis focuses on …
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Three Essays On: Cancelling Liquidity, Information Generation And Learning By Holding Privately Placed Securities, And Information Generation, Learning And The Trading Dynamics Of Institutional Traders During The 2007-2008 Financial Crisis
… of institutional traders during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. The first essay examines cancellation activity of limit orders. We document a two-fold increase in limit order cancellation activity over the last decade, and study the determinants of cancellations and the change in …
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Financial Crisis and Bank Lending Behavior in Nigeria
… the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) / government financial intervention, there is a significant increase in the lending behavior of Nigerian bank during and post 2008 financial crisis. Total loan ratio is the proxy for bank lending behavior while the dependent variables are bank specific …
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3-month bond option strategies: an analysis of performance from 1998 to 2010 in the South African market
Due to the 2008 financial crisis, investors have become more risk averse in investing in equities and have increased their holdings in bonds as they are believed to be less risky. However, South African interest rates have been volatile over the past decade due to changes in the inflation rate. …
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Analysis of CDO tranche valuation and the 2008 credit crisis
The causes of the 2008 financial crisis were wide ranging. Some financial commentators have suggested there were significant inadequacies in the models used to price complex derivatives such as synthetic Collaterilised Debt Obligations (CDOs). We discuss the technical properties of CDOs and the …
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Essays on the role of executive compensation in the subprime mortgage crisis and the incentive effects of executive stock options
… firms and mortgage origination prior to the 2008 financial crisis, and aims at directly answering whether executive compensation in the financial sector contributed to the mortgage market meltdown in the most recent financial crisis. By constructing a unique data set of CEO compensation in a …
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Income Inequality, Household Borrowing, and the Business Cycle
Over the thirty years preceding 2008, the United States has experienced increasing income inequality while transitioning to a consumption-led economy. This dissertation investigates the foundations of the 2008 recession and offers an explanation for the slow growth recovery. Three distinct papers …
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Essays on entrepreneurial finance : small firms and their banks
… SMEs. The second essay examines the role of financial advice to small firms in alleviating credit constraints. The third essay explores patterns of SMEs’ discouragement towards borrowing in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. The final empirical essay introduces a novel concept …
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Transmission Linked to Structural Vulnerability: How Low-Income Countries Endured the Great Recession
<p>The implosion of the 2008 financial crisis ignited fears that integration would transmit the crisis’ effects throughout the global system. Examining two countries, Bangladesh and Zambia, this project shows that low-income countries with relatively little integration also saw negative impacts. …
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Examining Drug Policy in Portugal and Greece
… how economic factors, particularly the 2008 financial crisis and austerity measures, negatively affected both countries' programs but hit Greece's initiatives with greater severity. Portugal's programs have remained resilient due to stronger institutional frameworks and public support, …
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Macroeconomic conditions and capital structure: evidence from publicly listed companies in the U.K.
… macroeconomic variables, namely, business cycle, financial market risk, credit supply and stock market performance, affect capital structure of publicly listed U.K. firms. Specifically, by using fixed effects, random effects, tobit, and GLS regression models and GMM methods (SGMM and DGMM), this …
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