“Global Financial Crisis: Regulatory Arbitrage and Paradigm Shifts” In early 2008‚ the economy ground to an almost complete halt. As the stock indexes were overwhelmed by a virtual tsunami of never relenting red digits‚ it became clear that the financial markets had been hit by a crisis the scope and scale of which had not been witnessed since the Wall Street Crash of the 1930’s. Over time the causes became more clear‚ and as the dust settled‚ the world was left with several important questions
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IN MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL INNOVATION IN CAPITAL MARKETS Dr.C.Meera ** Mr.R.S.Mohan ***T.Ramesh Financial innovation has been a continuous and integral part of growth of the capital markets. Greater freedom and flexibility have enabled companies to reinvent and innovate financial instruments. Many factors such as increased interest rate‚ volatility‚ frequency of tax and regulatory changes etc. have stimulated the process of financial innovation. The deregulation of financial service industry
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What is social capital ? A Critical Literature Review Student: Ying Jiang Instructor: Jorge Sousa Course: CED1 The theory of social capital is one of the most rapidly developing social science research fields in the last 20 years. In the dictionary of classical economics‚ capital‚ mainly physical capital‚ is considered to be a production
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Raising Capital in the Financial Markets CHAPTER ORIENTATION This chapter considers the market environment in which long-term capital is raised. The underlying rationale for the existence of security markets is presented‚ investment banking services and procedures are detailed‚ private placements are discussed‚ and security market regulation is reviewed. CHAPTER OUTLINE I. The mix of corporate securities sold in the capital market. A. When corporations raise cash in the capital market
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gula Regulation of Financial Markets BA (Hons) Business Management Word Count: 2750 ------------------------------------------------- Q: Explain the main reasons why financial markets are regulated? To what extent do you think that recent problems in the financial markets are the result of too little regulation? Introduction: Since the inception of this world‚ people are following rules in one way or the other. Every aspect of our lives follows a pattern. The best patterns and practices
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FINANCIAL CRISIS: WHERE DID RISK MANAGEMENT FAIL? Gabriele Sabato Royal Bank of Scotland1 Abstract The real estate market bubble and the subprime mortgages have been often identified as the causes of the current financial crisis‚ but this is not entirely true or‚ at least‚ they cannot be considered as the main cause. A poor regulatory framework based on the belief that banks could be trusted to regulate themselves is among the main sources of the crisis. At the same time‚ risk management
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Subprime Crisis in Financial Market Abstract This paper analyzes the reasons of the subprime crisis in mortgage financing occurred in 2007 and the impacts of the crisis on the overall financial system. The subprime crisis in US is caused by excessive amounts of loans made to people who could not afford them‚ and also the investors who were very eager for high return put excessive amounts of money into the mortgage. There are a number of factors in generating crisis‚ such as legislations like
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Was the financial crisis‚ which led to the austerity measures now being followed by the coalition government‚ caused by investment bankers or by government? A lot of economists stated that the recent financial crisis was the worst crisis since Great Depression‚ which resulted in the collapse of a number of large financial institutions followed by the government’s bailout and austerity measures. It has affected billions of people globally‚ which made bankers and politicians very unpopular. Though
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What caused the Financial Crisis…another way‚ Not who ..BUT WHAT the three common narratives about the financial crisis. The first argues that the primary cause was government intervention in the housing market. This intervention‚ principally through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac‚ inflated a housing bubble that triggered the crisis. This is the view expressed by one of our co-commissioners in a separate dissent. -Both of these views are incomplete and misleading. The existence of housing bubbles
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Economics 31 (2001) 105–231 Capital markets research in accounting$ S.P. Kothari* Sloan School of Management‚ Massachusetts Institute of Technology‚ Cambridge‚ MA 02142‚ USA Received 22 November 1999; received in revised form 8 March 2001 Abstract I review empirical research on the relation between capital markets and financial statements. The principal sources of demand for capital markets research in accounting are fundamental analysis and valuation‚ tests of market efficiency‚ and the role of
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