Insight Report: Mortgage Market Trends in the US‚ UK‚ Ireland and Australia On 12th May 2014 Synopsis The report outlines the key trends arising and insights in the mortgage markets in the US‚ UK‚ Ireland and Australia after the financial crisis: It provides a comparative analysis of the US‚ UK‚ Irish and Australian mortgage markets It provides analytical insights into the key emerging trends in the mortgage markets arising as a result of regulatory and economic developments in these countries
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In this article‚ I present evidence that psychological pitfalls played a crucial role in generating the global financial crisis that began in September 2008. The evidence indicates that specific psychological phenomena—reference point–induced risk seeking‚ excessive optimism‚ overconfidence‚ and categorization—were at work. I am not saying that fundamental factors‚ such as shifts in housing demand‚ changes in global net savings rates‚ and rises in oil prices‚ were not relevant. They most certainly
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A Crisis So Severe‚ The World Financial System Is Affected Following a period of economic boom‚ a financial bubble—global in scope—has now burst. A collapse of the US sub-prime mortgage market and the reversal of the housing boom in other industrialized economies have had a ripple effect around the world. Furthermore‚ other weaknesses in the global financial system have surfaced. Some financial products and instruments have become so complex and twisted‚ that as things start to unravel‚ trust
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An Analysis of the Financial Crisis of 2008: Causes and Solutions By Austin Murphy* ________________________________________________________________________ *by Austin Murphy‚ Professor of Finance‚ Oakland University‚ SBA‚ Rochester‚ MI 48309-4493 (248-370-2125; jamurphy@oakland.edu). Electronic copy available at: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1295344 Abstract This research evaluates the fundamental causes of the current financial crisis. Close financial analysis indicates that theoretical
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Why Global Financial Crisis Happened? In short‚ Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis tells the events that leading up to the Global Financial Crisis that happened in the late 2000 or to be exact‚ around 2007 to 2008. The financial crisis starts when Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate to the lowest level and pumps trillion of dollars into the sick banking system. This action has actually led to a bigger problem that affected the entire world. There was a bubble in real estate in the U.S and
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The Credit Crisis & the Resulting Effects on the Financial World Introduction The financial crisis of 2007 until present is a financial event that borders on what many say is as bad if not worse than the great depression. It has caused repercussions that cannot be afforded to be forgotten going into the future. One of the major events that kick-started the decline of the banking system as well as causing major liquidity issues in debt markets was the housing bubble burst. This forced
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The intention of this essay is to provide an in depth and critical analysis of the financial crisis that took place between 2007-2009‚ in particular focusing on some key issues raised by the Foote‚ Gerardi and Willen paper ‘Why did so many people make so many Ex Post bad decisions?’ Whilst there were many contributing factors‚ it is clear that a specific few played a particularly dominant role‚ primarily the ‘Bubble Theory’‚ irresponsible regulation‚ toxic CDO’s and $62 trillion of CDS’s. ‘That’s
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Western Michigan university | Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis? | By Robert C. Pozen | | Luma Raha | 10/12/2011 | The article from the Harvard Business Review‚ "Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?" ‚ author Robert Pozen stipulates that the fair value accounting principles did not cause the financial crisis of 2008‚ but certainly aggravated it by common misconceptions about accounting standards. The article defines
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bankers lend money to house buyers they will be expecting them to pay back the mortgages and consequently they would be careful to give out loans. Financial engineers then came up with the idea of putting together complex derivatives - called collateralized debt obligations (CDO)‚ partially based on mortgages‚ but also other various loans - this logic drastically changed. In this new system‚ lenders sold their mortgages to investments banks and did not care to whom they gave the loan‚ because they
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GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND ITS IMPACT ON INDIA Abstract: The effects of the global financial crisis have been more severe than initially forecast. By virtue of globalization‚ the moment of financial crisis hit the real economy and became a global economic crisis; it was rapidly transmitted to many developing countries. India too is weathering the negative impact of the crisis. There is‚ however‚ an important difference between the crisis in the advanced countries and the developments in India
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