The Global Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 The Global Financial Crisis 2007-2008 Economists and scholars spend years dissecting financial markets and evaluating the causes of booms and busts. Throughout United States history there have been multiple economic booms that were underestimated and followed by recessions. In the situation of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis many culprits have been identified as causes‚ such as loose monetary policy‚ credit booms‚ deregulation‚ over complexity‚
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601-80 Case Analysis #2 “US Citizen Bank (A)” Identification: Should Ms. Jefferies submit information or withhold information to a governmental arm‚ even though participation is completely voluntary? Michelle Jefferies is vice president for the Niche Credit Markets Division for US Citizen Bank. During her tenure‚ the development of a college student credit card program has rapidly accelerated. At the same time the U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO) has requested US Citizen Bank’s participation
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Fixed Income in a Financial Crisis (A): US Treasuries in November 2008 Academic Year 2013/2014 Executive Summary In the first part of our report‚ we investigate if a 35 basis points yield spread represents mispricing of two bonds‚ both with the same maturity but one with a coupon rate of 10.625% and the other 4.25%. Our investigation also determines if the yield spread represents an arbitrage opportunity. In our investigation‚ we calculate the theoretical yield spread between the two bonds
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Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein (2010) point out that the financial crisis of 2008 affects economy by the decline in new loans in bank area and there are two stresses on bank liquidity led banks to cut lending which are commercial and industrial loans stresses. The data for the writers’ investigation are from Reuters’ DealScan database instead of C＆I - which means commercial and industrial – loans announced by Federal Reserve Board (FRB). The reason maybe that DealScan mainly contains syndicated
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Introduction In the UK‚ the repercussions of the recent banking crisis affecting the financial sector are now being observed in the wider economy. In January 2009‚ it was confirmed that the UK is officially in recession as the criteria of two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth has been met. Gross domestic product (GDP) fell by 1.5% in the last three months of 2008 following a 0.6% drop in the previous quarter. Many events leading to the current situation have stemmed from the
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Evaluate the Economic Consequences for the UK Economy of the 2012 Olympics When Jacques Rogge announced‚ on the 6th of July 2005 that London would be the 2012 Olympics host city it was met by jubilation across the United Kingdom. During the “Boom” years‚ the Olympics were seen to be a great opportunity to exhibit the United Kingdom to the world and bring in a huge boost to the UK economy. However‚ now the Olympics are taking place during the worst financial crisis since the 1930s and with the government
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The Bank of England has had much success and as a result many nations have followed its lead in creating a central banking systems of their own. The United States is one of these nations. The two nations have many similar banking objective and strategies on how to best achieve the objectives. These nations also differ greatly in some aspects of their banking philosophies. The currencies of both nations are strongly held around the world. Their monetary policies and bank regulations differ in some
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Problems for Financial Institutions during the Credit Crisis: Select a financial institution that had serious financial problems as a result of the credit crisis. Determine the main underlying causes of the problems experienced by that financial institution. Explain how these problems might have been avoided. Table of Contents I- Credit crisis .................................................................................................... 2 II- Impact of the credit crisis on investment
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World Bank has upgraded Thailand’s income categorization from a lower-middle income economy to an upper-middle income economy in 2011. Despite facing a number of political challenges‚ Thailand has made great progress in social and economic issues. As such‚ Thailand has been one of the great development success stories‚ with sustained strong growth and impressive poverty reduction. Altogether Thailand has lived with two financial crises in ten years‚ the Asian turmoil of 1997-98 and financial crisis
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the financial crisis. The less qualified home buyers were told to lie in order to qualify for the mortgage loans and no one would verify their income or assets. Those home-buyers irresponsibly purchased houses that they couldn’t afford. The mortgage lenders produced more loans to people‚ then packaged them altogether to sell to investment banks. As a result‚ the mortgage lenders had more positive cash flow for producing more loans. This process was continuing to repeat. The investment banks would
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