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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...
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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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GreatRecession. The impacts of this recession include substantial job losses, rising unemployment and bankruptcies, a stagnant … housingmarket and more. This project describes the overall impact of The Great Recession in the Chippewa Valley, Wisconsin and the … United States. In particular, we examined what sectors lost the most jobs and if the unemployment effects of this recession …
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government intervention in credit markets during financial crises. A DSGE model to assess the interaction between ex …-post interventions in credit markets and the build-up of risk ex ante is developed. During a systemic crisis, the central bank finds it …
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This paper develops a framework for examining the impact of changes in the solvency standard of a bank (target credit …. However, a higher credit rating should also reduce the cost of rated-debt that a bank uses to fund its assets. We develop a … matched by the reduction in the cost of rated-debt, and compare our theoretically-derived results to actual credit spreads on …
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This paper investigates the medium- and long-term growth effects of the global financial crises on Low-Income Countries (LICs). Using several methodological approaches, including impulse response function analysis, growth spells techniques and panel regressions, we show that external demand (ED)...
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The new Basel Capital Adequacy Accord (Basel III) is an agreement among countries' central banks and bank supervisory … authorities on the amount of capital banks must hold as a cushion against losses and insolvency. Basel III is of concern to … report follows the basic elements of the Basel III documents on the types of capital requirements and their phase-in schedule …
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Fed to act muchmore quickly than the BOJ, however. And, in its direct involvement in the provisionof credit to the private … sector and its assumption of banks’ credit risk, the Fed hasintervened in the financial markets more extensively than the BOJ … more heavily securitized financial structure in the U.S. and the Fed’s relaxed stance on credit risk also may account for …
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The recent onset of the most severe, synchronised global economic slump since the 1930s depression has rekindled controversies over the contradictory ?laws of motion? of capitalism and the very nature of capitalist money in the wake of the global financial meltdown, which preceded the slump. The...
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It is accepted worldwide that a healthy banking system play a crucial role in the economic development of a country …. Also, the role and importance of the banking system in developed and developing countries (including Kosovo) is …
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