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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"Financial Crises"”.
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The dynamics of global financial crises
… a Markov chain model of the transmission of financial crises. Using bilateral trade data and a measure of exchange market pressure, it develops a method to determine a set of transition probabilities that describe the crisis transmission dynamics. The dynamics are characterized by one month …
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The dynamics of global financial crises
… a Markov chain model of the transmission of financial crises. It uses a mathematical programming framework to determine the transition probabilities that describe the crisis dynamics. The framework allows for modelling and comparing various channels of contagion, such as investments and …
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Sovereignty and intervention in financial crises
… Taking as a case study Indonesia during its financial crisis in 1997-1998, this thesis explores the sovereign ability of a state such as Indonesia to act effectively and independently in its own economic interest in a crisis. The argument of this thesis that sovereignty today is conditional, …
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Essays on Monetary Policy and Financial Crises
… the role of central banks in the context of financial crises. In particular, the thesis examines (i) the potential monetary policy’s role in causing a financial crisis and (ii) the central bank’s management in times of crises. After a brief introduction in chapter 1, chapter 2 examines if US …
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The political economy of government interventions in financial crises
… of the bailout programs seen in the 2008-2009 financial crisis: first, the opposition of voters to these programs; and second, the implementation of a variety of interventions, ranging from targeted transfers that inject capital in particular institutions to untargeted transfers aimed at entire …
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Volatility risk and stock return predictability on global financial crises
… return predictability specified on two global financial crises: the dot-com bubble and recent financial crisis. Using a broad sample of stock options traded at the American Stock Exchange and the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) from January 2001 to December 2010, three essays are …
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Essays on Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: Role of Capital Inflow, Financial Intermediaries and the Dynamics of Contagion
… of this dissertation examines the 1997 Asian financial crisis. It is shown that existing literature on currency crises fail to provide any early warning indicators that would have predicted the across-the-board distress seen in the Asian economies. An alternative approach to tracking financial …
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Will CARICOM countries be vulnerable to financial crises as a result of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA): the Cotonou Agreement?
Whether the EPA contains the seeds of potential financial crises in relation to the CARICOM countries, using the concepts of globalisation, volatility risk and hubris (of leadership, economic thought and a weak regulatory environment). This study seeks to establish whether financial crises may …
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Multifunctional Banking and Financial Fragility: What Should Banks Do?
… Glass-Steagall Act (GSA) on the stability of the financial structure. While the U.S. economy has experienced a number of episodes of instability and even mini-financial crises since the 1970s, the Global Financial Crises was the first one that was systemic, encompassed a wide array of institutions …
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Inquiries into the behavior of emerging market firms
… several models, developed in the aftermath of financial crises of the late 1990's, suggest that the expansion in the "peso" value of "dollar" liabilities resulting from a devaluation either aggravated or triggered many of the recent financial crises. However, little evidence has been presented …
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The Missing Central Bank: A Case History of the United States of America 1791-1913
… addition, it will explore how even after several financial crises during the 1800s, there was still little desire to have a central bank. The paper will conclude by explaining how the presence of a central bank became essential to the U.S. financial markets in the early 1900s.
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Assessing some socio-economic and demographic changes affecting the employment in the informal sector between the years 2017 and 2020
… economically advanced provinces, and persistent financial crises, have collectively driven the growth of the informal sector during periods of economic instability in South Africa's labour market. From a socio-demographic standpoint, this study examines the structural shifts that impact informal …
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Essays on Capital Flows and Macroprudential Regulation
… in order to design policies to mitigate macro-financial risks and financial crises.
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Financial crisis management: application to SMEs in Australia
… number of these businesses suffer from abrupt financial crises resulting from manmade or natural disasters such as fire, flood, storm, etc, which affect all business sectors in the Australian economy. There are numerous theoretical and empirical models that have been applied in relation to …
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A Comparison of Economic Development in Latin America, Middle Eastern Europe and Asia in the 1990s
… turbulence in the global economy. Economic and financial crises occurred in Latin America, Middle and Eastern Europe and Asia. This analysis distinguishes between the two socioeconomic criteria "transitional" and "emerging" region. Transitional countries are former centrally planned socialist …
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Currencies' exchange rate trend-before and after financial crisis
Do financial crises tend to arise together? Recent financial crisis that has originated from credit crisis in US in 2008 spread throughout countries ranging from Asia, to Europe, to Africa. Generally a shock to one country's asset market that causes changes in asset prices in another country's …
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The use of recursive partitioning to build a financial distress prediction for JSE listed companies
The financial crises of 2008 increased the focus around financial distress and even more so on predicting financially distressed companies prior to the fact. This research paper investigates using recursive partitioning to predict financially distressed companies on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, …
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Three Essays in Macroeconomics
… is on firm dynamics, and the third essay is on financial crises. The first essay clarifies the role of the corporate income tax: as a form of double taxation) for achieving socially optimal allocations in the Mirrlees framework when the government cannot tax unrealized capital income at the …
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