A common feature of all the financial crises is that the financial instability and a highly leveraged private sector created a financial boom which finally led to the bubble and subsequently to the bust. 1. Financial instability In EU crisis and US financial crisis cases the banking sector was hit hardest and accelerated the crisis through a credit crunch and credit crisis. Whereas in the US this process was driven by a real estate boom and the issuance of complex securities (as bad assets)‚ in
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Leverage is borrowing money to amplify the outcome of a deal. The financial crisis includes sub-prime mortgages‚ collateralized debt obligations‚ frozen credit markets‚ and credit default swaps. The way that leverage works in a normal deal is that someone can buy merchandise for 20‚000 and sell it to someone else for 11‚000 and they gain 1‚000 in profit. However‚ using leverage if the same person with 10‚000 goes to borrow 990‚000 it will give him 1‚000‚000. He will then go buy 100 boxes with his
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THE IMPACT OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS TO HIGHER EDUCATION The 1st Asia-Europe Education Workshop 25 – 26 March 2010 Manila‚ the Philippines In partnership with: 1 Asia-Europe Education Report 1st Asia-Europe Education Workshop: The Impact of the Financial Crisis to Higher Education Makati City‚ Philippines‚ 25-26 March 2010 Co-organised by the Asia-Europe Foundation’s ASEM Education Hub (AEH) and the Asian Institute of Management (AIM) © Asia-Europe Foundation‚ 2010 The views expressed
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1: Eastern Europe is currently in severe financial distress. Discuss why the crisis has affected the Eastern European countries in such a strong way. Reflect on the interdependency between the members of the European Union. How does situation in Eastern Europe affect countries in Western Europe? The economic conditions of the 20 countries comprising of the Central and Eastern Europe region faced exceptional deterioration during the global financial and economic crisis. Reports from 2009 indicate that
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Economic Crisis and Response in the Philippines The Global Economic Crisis pulled countries down from around the globe to a recession. Wide-ranging declines in many aspects of growth characterize the overall impact it had had on the global scale. Following the Asian economic crisis in 1997‚ the present global economic crisis imposes new challenges to the Philippines as a developing country. Following are expositions of the macroeconomic impacts of the crisis in the Philippine setting‚ its implications
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CRISIS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT The study of crisis and crisis management is a very vibrant field within public relations. There is a strong imperative for understanding crises and crisis management. All organizations should realize they are vulnerable to crises so they must prepare for the eventuality. Once management realizes crises are possible‚ it must grapple with what a crisis is and what constitutes crisis management. A crisis can be defined as "an unpredictable‚ major threat that can have
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during the Financial Crisis of 2008 The Federal Reserve took various measures to stabilize and make sure that the situations in the financial markets improved. The measures limited the damage on the market from affecting the entire economy. Among the measures‚ the Federal Reserve provided liquidity. This included giving financial institutions secured short-term loans. The loans helped to bail out financial institutions from imminent collapse. The Federal Reserve also supported weak financial markets
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priority. This is achieved by implementing necessary crisis response strategies‚ and Coombs (2007b) Situational Crisis Communication Theory offers three key approaches corporations in crisis: deny‚ diminish‚ and rebuild. As McDonalds Canada‚ knowingly placed people at risk by voluntarily making the decision to adjust its nut-free policy‚ it falls within the preventable cluster of crisis response‚ and thus should have used rebuilding crisis response strategies to restore its image. Rebuild strategies
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use financial techniques to achieve their dream of becoming wealthy. The financial institutions do not lend money out of kindness of their heart‚ but in order to make greater profits for their business. In the 1929 Wall Street crash and 2008 Financial Crisis‚ financial institutions were right in the center of the problem. The reason for learning history is because the market repeats itself in various forms. There are some major differences from the 1929 Wall Street crash and the 2008 Financial Crisis
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talk about new complex financial instruments and my topic is : The creation of complex financial instruments was a key component in the creation of the financial crisis of 2008. My presentation has been divided into four parts. The first part I will identify new financial instruments and describe its activity. Next to The second part‚ the criticisms of the complex instruments will analyses. And then‚ the third part will discuss whether the creation of the complex financial instruments should be
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