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Iceland's Economic and Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Implications
Spruk, Rok - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Iceland experienced a significant financial meltdown and subsequent economic downturn after the 2008/2009 financial … onwards. Since 1980s, Iceland's macroeconomic stability had been constantly deteriorated by the most volatile annual CPI and … also provides a short-term analysis of Iceland's macroeconomic outlook. The main findings of the article conclude that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919755
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The Stock Market, the Real Economy and Contagion
Baur, Dirk G; Miyakawa, Isaac - Finance Discipline Group, Business School - 2014
In this paper we analyze the link between stock market performance and macroe conomic performance for a large number of countries. We study the short-run and long-run relationships and find that stock market returns do not coherently predict future macroeconomic changes for the majority of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010883508
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Financial stress and economic dynamics: an application to France
Aboura, Sofiane; Roye, Björn van - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
In this paper, we develop a financial stress index for France that can be used as a real-time composite indicator for the state of financial stability in France. We take 17 financial variables from different market segments and extract a common stress component using a dynamic approximate factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886871
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Political Booms, Financial Crises
Herrera, Helios; Ordonez, Guillermo; Trebesch, Christoph - CESifo - 2014
We show that political booms, measured by the rise in governments’ popularity, predict financial crises above and beyond other better-known early warning indicators, such as credit booms. This predictive power, however, only holds in emerging economies. We show that governments in emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888458
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The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - CESifo - 2014
This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks’ balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948836
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The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles
Jorda, Oscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research (HKIMR), … - 2014
This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks' balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929639
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Political Booms, Financial Crises
Herrera, Helios; Ordoñez, Guillermo; Trebesch, Christoph - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
We show that political booms, measured by the rise in governments’ popularity, predict financial crises above and beyond other better-known early warning indicators, such as credit booms. This predictive power, however, only holds in emerging economies. We show that governments in emerging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210891
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Market Failures and Regulatory Failures : Lessons from Past and Present Financial Crises
Acharya, Viral V.; Cooley, Thomas; Richardson, Matthew; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The paper analyzes the financial crisis of through the lens of market failures and regulatory failures. We present a case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis : excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278053
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Market Failures and Regulatory Failures : Lessons from Past and Present Financial Crises
Acharya, Viral V.; Cooley, Thomas; Richardson, Matthew; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The paper analyzes the financial crisis of through the lens of market failures and regulatory failures. We present a case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis : excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278152
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Market Failures and Regulatory Failures : Lessons from Past and Present Financial Crises
Acharya, Viral V.; Cooley, Thomas; Richardson, Matthew; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
The paper analyzes the financial crisis of through the lens of market failures and regulatory failures. We present a case that there were four primary failures contributing to the crisis : excessive risk-taking in the financial sector due to mispriced government guarantees; regulatory focus on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278206