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14.54 International Trade, Fall 2005
Lorenzoni, Guido - 2005
Introduction to the theory of international trade and finance with applications to current policy issues. From the course home page: Course Description The course will help us understand what determines the flow of goods across countries, i.e. international trade, and what determines the flow of...
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Overview of the Great Recession in the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin and the US
Block, Sam; Christensen, Drew; Ross, April; Wieseman, … - 2010
Color poster with text, images, and graphs.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009460833
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The Global Financial Crisis, credit crunches and deleveraging
Keen, Steve - 2009
The proposition that the Global Financial Crisis was inherently unpredictable is a recurrent theme amongst those charged with preventing such events. It is also a convenient untruth. A Netherlands academic did a rather better survey of the literature than Governor Stevens, to identify 12...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482087
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Dubai, debt, and dependency : the political and economic implications of the bailout of Dubai
Henry, Clement M. (contributor) - 2011
The goal of this thesis is to identify the main political and economic implications of Dubai’s debt crisis and subsequent bailout by her wealthier and more powerful sister emirate Abu Dhabi. This paper examines the implications of the bailout of Dubai on two levels: Dubai’s relationship with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009429418
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Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis
Volcker, Paul A. - 2009
Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in QuickTime movie file: "Politics, Economics and Social Issues - Video - Paul Volcker talks about the economic crisis." By Vanderbilt University. Paul A. Volcker, senior economic advisor to President Obama and former chairman of the Federal...
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Financial reform in Thailand
Asvananda, Thanyathamrong - University of Western Sydney; College of Law and Business; … - 2001
homeland, Thailand, dropped dramatically. Income decreased, the prices of essential goods increased, the stock market collapsed … been corrected and Thailand could have well avoided the recession. Now the crisis is over, Thailand is in a period of … economic reconstruction and, hopefully, the monetary crisis will not recur in Thailand. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009482024
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Blueprint for an International Lender of Last Resort
Lerrick, Adam; Meltzer, Allan H. - 2001
This paper proposes a low cost alternative to the large bailout packages that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has organized to address financial crises. The IMF would act as a lender of last resort. Faced with an unsustainable debt burden, a government would declare default. It would...
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Development of a model to predict financial distress of companies listed on the JSE
Muller, Grant Henri - 2008
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: To date, there has been significant research completed on the topic of corporate financial distress. Two pioneering researchers in the field of predicting financial distress was Beaver in 1966 and Altman in 1968. More recent research, based on companies listed on the JSE has...
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Essays on Markov-Switching Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models
Foerster, Andrew Thomas - 2011
This dissertation presents two essays on Markov-Switching dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models. The first essay is "Perturbation Methods for Markov-Switching Models," which is co-authored with Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Dan Waggoner, and Tao Zha. This essay develops an perturbation-based...
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Modelling extreme financial returns of global equity markets
Cotter, John - 2004
Extreme asset price movements appear to be more pronounced recently and havemajor consequences for an economy’s financial stability and monetary policies.This paper investigates the extreme behaviour of equity market returns andquantifies the probabilities of these losses. Taking fourteen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475644