Over the past two decades, financial market crises with similar features have occurred in different regions of the world. Unstable cross-market linkages during a crisis are referred to as financial contagion. We simulate crisis transmission in the context of a model of market participants...

In this study, we apply directed acyclic graphs and search algorithm designed for timeseries with non-Gaussian distribution to obtain causal structure of innovations from an errorcorrection model. The structure of interdependencies among six international stock markets isinvestigated. The...

Eine Voraussetzung für die Vermeidung von Wirtschaftskrisen ist das Verständnis von Ursachen und Wirkungszusammenhängen vergangener Krisen. Dabei ist eine Konzentration auf zentrale Aspekte und Akteure notwendig. Diese Arbeit konzentriert sich auf eine empirische Untersuchung der Bedeutung...

Utilizando datos granulares de la Central de Información de Riesgos del Banco de España, estudiamos uno de los canales de contagio a través de los cuales se pueden transmitir las tensiones en los mercados financieros —el canal de la calidad crediticia—, enfocándonos en el mercado...

Do bank bailouts work? Government aid initiatives implemented to stem the current crisis raise important questions about the role of monetary policy in preventing bank failures. The scale of this bailout program defies comparison with any other aid package implemented in the post-World War II...

Since the start of the financial crisis, various forms of securitization have been criticized for causing the problems experienced. The amount of Asset Backed Commercial Paper outstanding fell drastically in the middle of 2007 drawing our attention to this market. Our study focuses on the use of...

This study examines the timeliness of write-downs taken by U.S. financial institutions during the financial crisis of 2007-2008. The timeliness of write-downs is measured by benchmarking the quarterly accounting write-down schedule with the devaluation schedule implied by credit indices such as...

The number of dividend paying firms has been on the decline since the popularity of stock repurchases in the 1980s, and the recent financial crisis has brought about a wave of dividend reductions and omissions. This dissertation examined the U.S. firms and American Depository Receipts that are...

This paper compares the fundamental postulates of neoclassic paradigm and Keynesian model withthe modern capitalism. It shows that neoclassic paradigm, which underlies economic structure ofmajor countries, is inadequate to the essence of market economy. The research concludes that thecurrent...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. December 2009. Major: Economics. Advisor: Fabrizio Perri. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 114 pages, appendices A-C.