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ABS inflows to the United States and the global financial crisis

Bertaut, Carol; DeMarco, Laurie Pounder; Kamin, Steven; … - In: Journal of International Economics 88 (2012) 2, pp. 219-234

Relative to the “global savings glut” (GSG) hypothesis, we present a more complete picture of how capital flows contributed to the financial crisis, drawing attention to the sizable inflows from European investors into U.S. private-label asset-backed securities (ABS), including...

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A Recovery for All: Rethinking Socio-Economic Policies for Children and Poor Households

Ortiz, Isabel Ortiz (Editor); Cummins, Matthew Cummins … - UNICEF,Division of Policy and Practice

crisis, policy responses to date and United Nations alternative proposals for ‘A Recovery for All.’ With a foreword by Sir …

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Child Poverty and Inequality: New Perspectives

Ortiz, Isabel Ortiz (Editor); Moreira Daniels, Louise … - UNICEF,Division of Policy and Practice - 2012

The 21st century starts with vast inequalities for children in terms of income, access to food, water, health, education, housing, or employment for their families. Half of the world’s children are below the poverty line of $2 a day and suffer from multiple deprivations and violations to basic...

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Disentangling the Global Financial Crisis: A Review of the Global Response

Thenuwara, H. N. - eSocialSciences - 2009

At this moment, the world is undergoing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1930s. It is not clear exactly which factors instigated the crisis, but there are many candidates; the formation of an asset bubble in the US, and its subsequent crash, continued excessive consumption...

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Pricing of commercial real estate securities during the 2007–2009 financial crisis

Driessen, Joost; Van Hemert, Otto - In: Journal of Financial Economics 105 (2012) 1, pp. 37-61

We study the relative and absolute pricing of CMBX contracts (commercial real estate derivatives) during the recent … financial crisis. Using a structural CMBX pricing model, we find little systematic mispricing relative to REIT equity and … significant. In particular, the CMBX market temporarily overreacts to news announcements. We provide evidence that this temporary …

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U.S. Commercial Bank Lending through 2008:Q4: New Evidence from Gross Credit Flows

Contessi, Silvio; Francis, Johanna - Economics Department, Fordham University - 2009

What was hiding behind the aggregate commercial bank loans through the end of 2008? We use balance sheet data for every insured U.S. commercial bank from 1999:Q1 to 2008:Q4 to construct credit expansion and credit contraction series and provide new evidence on changes in lending. Until 2008:Q3...

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Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)

Wilson, Linus - Palgrave Macmillan

The Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), or the $700 billion bailout, has been the subject of much academic interest. Here the rigorous studies on the programs of this massive intervention into the financial sector are reviewed. While considerable work has been done on the bank bailouts in the...

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From low-quality reporting to financial crises: Politics of disclosure regulation along the economic cycle

Bertomeu, Jeremy; Magee, Robert P. - In: Journal of Accounting and Economics 52 (2011) 2, pp. 209-227

This paper examines how financial reporting regulations affect, and respond to, macroeconomic cycles by exploring a positive framework in which regulators subject to political pressures respond to cyclical demands by borrowers and lenders. We establish that, as economic conditions initially...

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Lessons learned for monetary policy from the recent crisis

Bordo, Michael D. - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2014

“Most people would say that Europe is still sort of coming out of the financial crisis that we had 5 years ago, which was probably the worst since the Great Depression of 1930s. Now just to keep things in context, at the time people were saying that it was going to be worse than the Great...

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The Dynamics of House Prices - International Evidence

Sorensen, Jens Kjaer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006

‘New’ long run data regarding Norway, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and USA has been collected and will be graphically, statistically and econometrically compiled and analyzed to prove that real house prices in the long run are constant and mean reverting. Co-integration of nominal house...

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