Showing 1 - 10 of 673
Using a data set covering about 277,000 firms across 79 countries over the period 2004-11, this paper examines the evolution of firms' capital structure during the global financial crisis and its aftermath in 2010-11. The study finds that firm leverage and debt maturity declined in advanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970413
The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840241
economic effects. The financial crisis that hit the world economy in 2008-2009 has transformed the lives of many individuals … financial system continue around the world, the challenge for policy makers is to incorporate the lessons from the failures to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973780
This paper describes the serious fiscal crisis faced by cities around the world following the Great Recession of 2008 …. Section 1 summarizes how the crisis was triggered and how it unfolded in the US, then spread to the rest of world … and expenditure, and the stimulus programs and recovery plans devised as a short term response by cities around the world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974855
During the crises of the 1990s, emerging economies usually lacked the policy tools to deal with external shocks that were available to advanced economies. Worldwide turbulent episodes found most emerging economies unable to perform countercyclical policies and, in many cases, their own...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976041
of asymmetries in world asset demand and supply. Absent changes in the deep determinants of these, global imbalances can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976478
the World Bank in response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Given trends in the imposition of new crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976545
around the world in response to the crisis. It highlights a number of key issues regarding economic and financial policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976634
This paper examines the determinants of stock markets' vulnerability to the 2007-2008 crisis. Given that the United States (US) was the crisis epicenter, the authors analyze the factors driving the co-movement between US returns and stock returns in 83 countries. The analysis distinguishes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976664
This paper explores the spillover effects of job losses via input linkages during the Great Recession. Exploiting exogenous variation in tradable employment shocks across U.S. counties, the paper finds that job losses in the tradable sectors cause further job losses in local supporting services....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970228