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  1. The impacts of the global economic crisis and its aftermath on the

    Nowadays, there is a considerable body of literature exploring the causes of the global financial and economic crisis. The roots of the crisis, which erupted after the period of extensive deregulation of the banking sector pursued in line with the efficient financial market theory (see Crotty, 2009; Krugman, 2009), were neatly summarised by Martin (2011) as a shift from a 'locally originate ...

  2. Financial Crisis Articles & Papers: All Topics

    The Financial Crisis: Toward an Explanation and Policy Response. by Aaron Steelman and John A.Weinberg. in Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond Annual Report 2008, April 2009. The essay is divided into the four sections. First, what has happened in the financial markets.

  3. The financial crisis of 2008—Experience, memory, history

    Most observers would agree that more than a decade after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the short- and long-term consequences of the Financial Crisis can be assessed quite confidently. 1 The list of books dealing with the causes and consequences of the financial crash and the succeeding 'Great Recession' seems endless. While the book market was dominated by economists, journalists, and ...

  4. PDF Financial Crises: Explanations, Types, and Implications

    IMF Working Paper Research Department Financial Crises: Explanations, Types, and Implications Prepared by Stijn Claessens and M. Ayhan Kose1 January 2013 Abstract ... The 2007-09 global financial crisis has been a painful reminder of the multifaceted nature of crises. They hit small and large countries as well as poor and rich ones.

  5. (PDF) Economic Crisis

    An economic crisis is a breakdown, of established social relations, manifested in dry economic indicators of employment, growth, and inflation. There is much theoretical research on the nature of ...

  6. PDF WORKING PAPER Financial Crises: A Survey

    Table 1: Costs: the path of real GDP per capita after financial crises: crisis years and crisis peaks The table shows local projections of cumulative log real GDP per capita y t+h - y with indicators for financial crisis years (first two panels) and normal and financial recession peaks (last two panels) in advanced economies for the full non-war sample (1870-2015ex. war) and

  7. A comparative analysis of COVID-19 and global financial crises

    The paper also attempts to compare the GFC (Global Financial Crisis) and the current pandemic outbreak in the US. ... limited to the role of COVID-19 and its impact on the macroeconomic variables of the US economy compared to the Global Financial Crisis. Future research may be carried out to examine the performance and volatility of equity ...

  8. The real effects of the financial crisis

    This paper is part of the Fall 2018 edition of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, the leading conference series and journal in economics for timely, cutting-edge research about real-world ...

  9. Financial crises: A survey

    Amir Sufi & Alan M. Taylor. Financial crises have large deleterious effects on economic activity, and as such have been the focus of a large body of research. This study surveys the existing literature on financial crises, exploring how crises are measured, whether they are predictable, and why they are associated with economic contractions.

  10. The Social Impact of Financial Crises: Evidence from the Global

    No Access Policy Research Working Papers 12 Dec 2013. The Social Impact of Financial Crises: Evidence from the Global Financial Crisis. Authors/Editors: ... they can create severe financial crises with devastating social and economic effects. The financial crisis that hit the world economy in 2008-2009 has transformed the lives of many ...

  11. PDF The Social Impact of Financial Crises

    As economic activity further weakened and a massive number of jobs were lost around the world,unemployment rate s climbed to unprecedented levels. Countries with weak institutional capacity and limited fiscal room have been particularly hurt. This paper presents evidence on the extent to which the global financial crisis since 2007 has

  12. WDR 2022 Chapter 1. Introduction

    WDR 2022 Chapter 1. Introduction. Chapter 1. The economic impacts of the COVID-19 crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic sent shock waves through the world economy and triggered the largest global economic crisis in more than a century. The crisis led to a dramatic increase in inequality within and across countries. Preliminary evidence suggests that ...

  13. The Puzzling Persistence of Financial Crises

    DOI 10.3386/w32213. Issue Date March 2024. The high social costs of financial crises imply that economists, policymakers, businesses, and households have a tremendous incentive to understand, and try to prevent them. And yet, so far we have failed to learn how to avoid them. In this article, we take a novel approach to studying financial crises.

  14. Financial Crisis: Articles, Research, & Case Studies on the Financial

    New research on financial crisis from Harvard Business School faculty on issues including what companies should not do in the next banking crisis, how financial brands can start to rebuild consumer trust, and how companies can survive financial crisis by identifying and exploiting innovation will serve as economic growth engines in the future.

  15. The distributional impact of recessions: The global financial crisis

    Using U.S. Current Population Survey data, this paper compares the distributional impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis and those of Global Financial Crisis in terms of (i) worker characteristics, (ii) job characteristics-"social" (where individuals interact to consume goods), "teleworkable" (where individuals have the option of working at home), and "essential" jobs (which ...

  16. Factors Influencing Crisis Management: A systematic review and

    The impact of the financial crisis on the banking sector. Paper presented to the scientific meeting "Implications of the global financial crisis and the impact of trade regimes on its containment", September 2009, International Islamic Authority for Economics and Finance, World Muslim League. ... Conflict and Social Crisis Research Network ...

  17. The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, Consequences and ...

    Starting in mid-2007, the global financial crisis quickly metamorphosed from the bursting of the housing bubble in the US to the worst recession the world has witnessed for over six decades. Through an in-depth review of the crisis in terms of the causes, consequences and policy responses, this paper identifies four key messages.

  18. Economic resiliency and recovery, lessons from the financial crisis for

    In this paper we examine resiliency, the ability to absorb and recover from economic shocks, in 199 Nuts-3 regions in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) following the 2008 global financial crisis. We find evidence of strong positive regional spillovers, meaning that regions tend to form clusters of high-performing and low-performing areas, a ...

  19. PDF Financial Crisis and Policy Responses

    The Financial Crisis and the Policy Responses: An Empirical Analysis of What Went Wrong. John B. Taylor* November 2008. Abstract: This paper is an empirical investigation of the role of government actions and interventions in the financial crisis that flared up in August 2007. It integrates and summarizes several ongoing empirical research ...

  20. The effects of economic and financial crises on FDI: A literature

    This represents the indirect effects of the crisis on FDI. There have been three papers investigating the effects of the financial and economic crisis of 2008 on FDI in emerging markets, namely the work of Sauvant et al., 2010, Kekic, 2009, and Dornean, Işan, and Oanea (2012). They studied the indirect effects of crises (macro level).

  21. PDF Can An Economic Crisis Shift Attitudes From Socialism to Capitalism

    economic crisis caused kibbutz members to increase support for right-wing parties because they ... National Bureau of Economic Research 2021.2,5, Nicol´as Ajzenman, Cevat Giray Aksoy, Martin Fiszbein, and Carlos A Molina, ... drivers of populism in europe," BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Research Paper, 2021, (2021-166).2

  22. (PDF) Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and Its Implication ...

    Page No : 57-65. 57 Avaliabl e at: www.ijssers.org. Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and I ts I mplication on COVID- 19 Pandemic. Crisis. Derwin Tambunan. School of Political Science and ...

  23. (PDF) 2008 Financial Crisis: Causes and Costs

    The 2008 financial crisis brought about the worst economic depression since World War II. This paper covers the three main components of the economic meltdown, along with its cause, consequences ...

  24. The Pandemic and the Economic Crisis: A Global Agenda for Urgent Action

    The IMF recognized the importance of employing capital account management techniques in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Since then, advances in economics have heightened understandings of the positive role that such interventions can have on economic stability, especially in developing countries. ... Research Working Papers Programs ...

  25. Economic Crises Spark Interest in Econ

    I wanted to learn how to better design the economic system." High Unemployment and Devaluations in Costa Rica. Alex Monge-Naranjo was a preteen in the early 1980s when Costa Rica suffered its only major economic crisis in recent history, he said in an interview for a December 2020 Open Vault blog post.