There are unsettled and unsettling times. We hear stories of increasing worry and concern over job security and financial well-being. As the job market shrinks, more people lose their jobs and job searches become increasingly competitive. Some may settle for jobs for which they are...

We examine the impact of banks' liquidity risk management on secondary loan sales. We track the dynamics of bank loan share ownership in the secondary market using data from the Shared National Credit Program, a credit register of syndicated bank loans administered by U.S. regulators. We analyze...

The 2007-2009 recession is characterized by: a large drop in employment, an unprecedented decline in firm entry, and a slow recovery. Using confidential firm-level data, I show that financial constraints reduced employment growth in small relative to large firms by 4.8 to 10.5 percentage points....

We study the performance and behavior of Value at Risk (VaR) measures used by a number of large banks during and before the financial crisis. Alternative benchmark VaR measures, including GARCH-based measures, are also estimated directly from the banks' trading revenues and help to explain the...

Using data on a broad set of European firms, we find a strong positive relationship between the use of external financing and future productivity (TFP) growth within firms. This relationship is robust to various measures of financing and productivity, and strengthens as financing costs increase....

Whether bank failures have adverse effects on local economies is an important question for which there is conflicting and relatively scarce evidence. In this study, I use county-level data to examine the effect of bank failures and resolutions on local economies. Using quasi-experimental...

We examine the impact of banks' liquidity risk management on secondary loan sales. We track the dynamics of bank loan share ownership in the secondary market using data from the Shared National Credit Program, a credit register of syndicated bank loans administered by U.S. regulators. We analyze...

The financial, monetary and banking crisis of 2008 started as a matter of crediting subpremiums in the United States only on the 2nd Quarter of the year and extended quickly in the 3rd Quarter in Western European and then in th e4th Quarter in the Center and Eastern Europe and even far away in...

I structured this study entitled "The evolution of the global crisis from 2007-2009", in three main chapters: In the first chapter I presented the main causes that conducted to this crisis situation. In the second chapter I focused on the effects produced by the economical crisis after its...

Our day to day study of the Romanian stock market during the period July 2007 – September 2009 revealed in many cases a specific behavior. Although all the emerging markets from the region evolved in correlation with the more established exchanges, the negative impact of the crisis on our...