"Mortgage-related hit worse than expected" has been a frequently cited phrase in recent months, and is usually followed by a list of victims consisting of banks and hedge funds. Although the current mortgage mess was caused by the subprime mortgage or bad credit mortgage, the broad impact of...

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) was signed into law on November 12, 1999.This act is regarded as the most influential deregulation for the U.S. financial servicesindustry in the past one-century. The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze thewealth effects of the GLBA on U.S. and...

This study measures the effect of changes in net housing and financial wealth on household consumption. The link between consumption, income and net wealth is measured within a Dynamic Ordinary Least Squares and a Dynamic Generalised Least Squares framework for the period Q2:1988-Q1:2003. It is...

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) was signed into law on November 12, 1999. This act is regarded as the most influential deregulation for the U.S. financial services industry in the past one-century. The purpose of this study is to determine and analyze the wealth effects of the GLBA on U.S. and...

This study examines the auditor switch effect on share prices among listed companies in Malaysia, mainly the Second Board companies during economic crisis and the economic growth period. Data on companies listed on the KLSE that reported switching of auditors were gathered from the respective...

Most papers on banking focus on profitability and cost efficiency as measures of performance. In doing so, these papers ignore the fact that, unlike in the manufacturing and services sector industries, the long term viability of a bank depends more on its ability to assess credit worthiness of...

This thesis studies the role of banks in the transmission of nominal shocks into credit markets in emerging countries. It builds on the lending channel hypothesis, which states that, due to imperfections in capital markets, banks may not be able to completely offset a negative shock to deposits...

Since the 1980s, household debt has been increasing rapidly. The high level of household indebtedness has been accompanied by a high household bankruptcy rate. My research attempts to provide a better understanding of the theoretical mechanisms behind these credit market and bankruptcy...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a specific test of Boucher, Carter et al.(2008) framework on risk rationing. The data were collected through a survey of 730farm households in Shaanxi province conducted in November 2010. We comparefactor associated with risk rationed, quantity rationed...

In einem Grundlagenteil beschreibt die Arbeit zunaechst die Ansatzpunkte internationaler Kooperation zur Praevention von Finanzkrisen, fokussierend auf die Regulierung von Banken und Wertpapierfirmen, und beschreibt die wesentlichen Massnahmen und Institutionen der internationalen Zusammenarbeit...