For an introductory macroeconomics course, the discussion of historical relevance helps foster important learning connections. By comparing the Great Depression to the 2008-2009 recession, a macroeconomics instructor can provide students with connections to history. This paper discusses the major causes of each recession, major fiscal policy and monetary policy decisions of both recessions, and the respective relevance in teaching the relationship of each policy to gross domestic product. The teaching points addressed in this paper are directed towards an introductory college-level macroeconomics course, incorporating a variety of theories from historical and economic writers and data from government and central bank sources. A lesson plan is included in an appendix to assist the instructor in implementing the material.

Submitted by Elba Lopes (elba.lopes@fecap.br) on 2017-08-15T19:54:39Z No. of bitstreams: 2 MARCOS ANTONIO DA SILVA.pdf: 391290 bytes, checksum: 13a7f180e4ffc72715375afc7cd9eb64 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-15T19:54:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 MARCOS ANTONIO DA SILVA.pdf: 391290 bytes, checksum: 13a7f180e4ffc72715375afc7cd9eb64 (MD5) license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-02-21 / Many studies have analyzed the capital structure of companies and how to best fund their activities, whether through equity or third-party capital. Most of the papers is devoted to identifying its determinants or analyzing specific sectors. The present study aims to verify if the indebtedness of Brazilian companies changed during the 2008 financial crisis. For this purpose, a sample of 90 Brazilian companies listed on BM &FBovespa was analyzed by average test and linear regression (OLS) . The results indicated a significant increase in the level of gross debt in the period between the third quarter of 2008 and the fourth quarter of 2009 and a significant increase in net debt in the period between the third quarter of 2008 and the second quarter of 2009. / Muitos estudos analisaram a estrutura de capital das empresas e qual a melhor forma de financiar suas atividades, seja essa por meio de capital pr??prio ou de capital de terceiros. A maioria dos trabalhos dedica-se a identificar seus determinantes ou analisar setores espec??ficos.O presente estudo tem o objetivo de verificar se o endividamento das empresas brasileiras alterou-se durante a crise financeira de 2008. Para tanto, analisou-se uma amostra de 90 empresas brasileiras listadas na BM&FBovespa por meio de teste m??dia e regress??o linear (MQO). Os resultados indicaram aumento significantes no n??vel de endividamento bruto no per??odo entre o terceiro trimestre de 2008 e o quarto trimestre de 2009 e aumento significativo no endividamento l??quido no per??odo entre o terceiro trimestre de 2008 e o segundo trimestre de 2009.

現今世界的經濟自由化、金融自由化及國際化潮流，為世界經濟注入一泉活水。然而，人們卻也為這種高度流動性以及蓬勃的經濟成長付出了慘痛代價。金融危機對經濟的影響與重要性，以及對金融業尤其是銀行有著極其深遠的影響。而關係著銀行經營之成敗，也是銀行業務中最重要的授信政策，毫無疑問更是金融銀行業經營的重心、開發各項業務的基礎。因此，如何在金融危機發生時維持良好的授信品質，成為銀行業不可或缺的首要課題之一。 本文利用文獻分析、問卷設計之量化研究、深度訪談之質化研究等方法來分析「金融危機下，銀行如何透過授信政策來改善授信品質」、「以合作金庫為例，合庫採取哪些授信政策來改善授信品質」以及「合作金庫之授信政策，是否能有效改善授信品質」等研究問題，並以合作金庫在全球金融危機(2007-2009年)下，授信政策的有效性進行探討。 本文研究發現，合作金庫在全球金融危機(2007-2009年)之授信政策，以「協助經營艱困企業的紓困政策」最為有效，「風險控管」、「區域授信中心」等其他相關政策也頗具效果，惟「緊縮性放款政策」的成效不彰。研究也發現，授信政策有效性會受到地區性、年資與職稱的影響而有不同的結果。且全球金融危機(2007-2009年)政策的制定深深受到亞洲金融危機(1997-1998年)政策成效與評價的影響。因此本文有以下幾項建議： 一、 有關當局可記取前幾次金融危機的教訓，作為制定授信政策的參考依據，並將政策方向指向改善金融體系或銀行的體質。 二、 銀行與企業經營要良性循環、共體時艱且合作並存。 三、 在考量政策實行的同時，也須以不同地區、年資與職稱的授信員工託付不同性質的授信政策去執行，才能「因地制宜、適才適用」。 / Nowadays, the rise of liberalization of world economic, financial and international trend plays the role of pouring living water into the world economy. However, people suffer from the exorbitant cost caused by the high liquidity and robust economic growth simultaneously. The significance and impact of global financial crisis, especially on financial and banking activities is absolutely crucial. Moreover, credit policies not only determine success or failure in banking, but undoubtedly is the core of financial management as well as the foundation of banking affair. Therefore, maintaining high credit quality under financial crisis has become the most essential issue for the banking system. In this thesis, literature analysis, quantitative questionnaire design and qualitative in-depth interview have been applied to analyze the following questions including “How do banks improve credit quality through credit policies facing financial crisis ?” ,“In the case of Taiwan Cooperative Bank, what kind of credit policies has it adopted to improve credit quality ?”Are these credit policies of Taiwan Cooperative Bank feasible and sufficient to improve credit quality? ”Also, the effectiveness of credit policies of Taiwan Cooperative Bank during global financial crisis (2007-2009) will be discussed. This study discovers that the most effective credit policy of Taiwan Cooperative Bank during global financial crisis (2007-2009) is “The bailout and assistance policies for the tough enterprises”. ”Risk management policy”, “Regional credit center policy” and other relevant policies are also quite effective. On the contrary, “Shrinking and restricting lending policies” proved to be invalid. The research tells us that the effectiveness of credit policies differs from distinct regions, years of seniority, and agent titles. In addition, the policies during global financial crisis (2007-2009) have been deeply influenced by the evaluation of effectiveness during Asian financial crisis (1997-1998). In conclusion, several suggestions are provided. First, the authorities concerned should keep the lessons from previous financial crisis in mind as references for improving credit quality. And the policy-making direction should be oriented to ameliorate the constitution of banking and financial system. Second, banks and connecting enterprises should operate a virtuous circle, cooperate and coexist in difficulties. Third, in consideration of policy implementation, different regions, years of seniority, and agent titles should entrust diverted credit policies to put into practice. In this way, crediting policies can “ Take actions that suit local circumstances and let the right men do the right things.”

Due to the apparent global economic conditions, at the end of 2008, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued amendments to IAS 39 Financial instruments: recognition and measurement and IFRS 7 Financial instruments: disclosures in October and November, 2008. The amendments allow banks to reclassify their non-derivative financial instruments in rare circumstances. This thesis investigates whether banks in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) reclassify financial instruments, in their financial statements of 2008 and 2009. The result of the study shows that 47% of the sample Nordic banks reclassified financial instruments in 2008 and 12% in 2009. All banks increased their net profit as a result of reclassifying financial instruments in 2008. The return on equity (ROE) increased significantly compared to whether the banks would not had reclassified their financial instruments. Tendencies found among the sample Nordic banks are that larger and less profitable banks used the possibility to reclassify financial instruments to a greater extent. Because none of the banks made losses on their choice to reclassify in 2008, the conclusion is that the opportunity given due to the amendments are mostly used by the banks to enhance the net income and the key ratio ROE. This shows that management decisions are short-term. This also indicates that the amendments may be misused by management to enhance current profit for their own benefit. The thesis also concludes that the departure from fair-value as the valuation method for financial instruments, due to recent massive critic, is unlikely.

<p>Due to the apparent global economic conditions, at the end of 2008, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) issued amendments to IAS 39 <em>Financial instruments: recognition and measurement </em>and IFRS 7 <em>Financial instruments: disclosures</em> in October and November, 2008. The amendments allow banks to reclassify their non-derivative financial instruments in rare circumstances. This thesis investigates whether banks in the Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) reclassify financial instruments, in their financial statements of 2008 and 2009.</p><p>The result of the study shows that 47% of the sample Nordic banks reclassified financial instruments in 2008 and 12% in 2009. All banks increased their net profit as a result of reclassifying financial instruments in 2008. The return on equity (ROE) increased significantly compared to whether the banks would not had reclassified their financial instruments. Tendencies found among the sample Nordic banks are that larger and less profitable banks used the possibility to reclassify financial instruments to a greater extent. Because none of the banks made losses on their choice to reclassify in 2008, the conclusion is that the opportunity given due to the amendments are mostly used by the banks to enhance the net income and the key ratio ROE. This shows that management decisions are short-term. This also indicates that the amendments may be misused by management to enhance current profit for their own benefit. The thesis also concludes that the departure from fair-value as the valuation method for financial instruments, due to recent massive critic, is unlikely.</p>

L'objectif de cette thèse est d'évaluer l'interdépendance macroéconomique entre pays développés sur les récentes décennies et, en particulier, à la suite de la crise financière de 2007-09 aux États-Unis. Pour cela, on utilise différentes hypothèses de modélisation dans les trois chapitres principaux que constituent la thèse permettant de capturer la dimension internationale des cycles économiques : modèle VAR en panel permettant de modéliser l'interdépendance entre les pays directement, modèle VAR simple en utilisant des variables domestiques et étrangères, et modèle DSGE à 2 pays permettant de modéliser directement les mécanismes réels et financiers qui lient les pays entre eux. Notre résultat principal est que la dimension internationale est importante pour expliquer la dynamique macroéconomique des pays développés sur les trois dernières décennies, que les variables soient réelles, nominales ou financières. Néanmoins, le rôle des facteurs étrangers ne croit pas dans le temps comme on pourrait le penser avec l'accentuation de la mondialisation de ces dernières décennies. Aussi, en regardant les crises économiques récentes aux États-Unis et de la zone euro, nous confirmons que la crise financière américaine de 2007-09 présente un choc plus important comparé aux standards historiques, qui s'est propagé à la zone euro à travers les liens financiers internationaux. Au contraire, la crise des dettes publiques de la zone euro de 2011 est un choc relativement standard, similaire aux chocs observés pendant la crise du Système Monétaire Européen (SME) de 1992-93, et affectant principalement les économies européennes. / The aim of this thesis is to evaluate macroeconomic interdependence between developed economies over the recent decades and, in particular, following the 2007-09 US financial crisis. For that purpose, we use several modeling assumptions across the three main chapters of the thesis to capture the international dimension of business cycles across countries: panel VAR model to model countries interdependence directly, simple VAR model with both domestic and foreign variables, and two-country DSGE model to model the real and financial mechanisms that link countries together. Our main result is that international dimension is important to explain the macroeconomic dynamics of developed economies over the last three decades and for either real, nominal and financial variables. Nevertheless, the role of foreign factors does not grow over time as would be expected with the increase in globalization of the recent decades. Also, looking at the recent economic crises in the US and the euro area, we confirm that the 2007-09 US financial crisis features a bigger shock relative to historical standards, which propagated to euro area economies through international financial linkages. In contrast, the 2011 euro area sovereign debt crisis features a standard shock, comparable to those observed in previous European crises like the 1992-1993 ERM crisis, and affecting mostly European economies.

This paper examines the impact of the recent global financial crisis on economic growth in developing economies and South Africa in particular. It explores whether the events experienced by developing countries conform to what would be anticipated from economic theory. This is done by firstly comparing country growth forecasts for 2012 captured in 2008 at the beginning of the crisis to actual 2012 GDP growth data. Secondly, panel data analysis is used to investigate three important transmission channels, namely those of Trade, Capital Flows and Exchange Rates for 25 developing economies. The results suggest that economic forecasters in 2008 on average overestimated GDP growth for 2012 by -21.6 percent (excluding Venezuela). The only important transmission channel identified using Trend analysis to explain this negative impact on growth was capital flows. However when using Panel regression analysis all three channels were found to explain the economic impact of the crisis on GDP growth for developing countries, conforming to economic theory. It was discovered that, contrary to what was initially expected, portfolio inflows actually increased for most developing countries during the crisis. This possibly can be explained by the impact of quantitative easing in the USA. South Africa was found to have been negatively impacted by the global financial crisis, but to a lesser extent when compared to most other developing countries. The findings are important for global investors looking for new investment opportunities. The extent to which individual economies are “decoupled” from developed economies’ performance provides possible opportunities for diversifying risk through a geographic spread of investor portfolios.

Submitted by Mirian Abe (mirian_abe@yahoo.com.br) on 2011-09-21T14:00:34Z No. of bitstreams: 1 A Crise de 2008 e seu Impacto em Paises Economicamente Dependentes de Commodities.pdf: 1276747 bytes, checksum: 6c279c19ee74ca35e2d1d866b4327748 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Suzinei Teles Garcia Garcia (suzinei.garcia@fgv.br) on 2011-09-21T14:23:12Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 A Crise de 2008 e seu Impacto em Paises Economicamente Dependentes de Commodities.pdf: 1276747 bytes, checksum: 6c279c19ee74ca35e2d1d866b4327748 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Suzinei Teles Garcia Garcia (suzinei.garcia@fgv.br) on 2011-09-21T14:23:33Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 A Crise de 2008 e seu Impacto em Paises Economicamente Dependentes de Commodities.pdf: 1276747 bytes, checksum: 6c279c19ee74ca35e2d1d866b4327748 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2011-09-21T14:25:42Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 A Crise de 2008 e seu Impacto em Paises Economicamente Dependentes de Commodities.pdf: 1276747 bytes, checksum: 6c279c19ee74ca35e2d1d866b4327748 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-08-31 / In this paper, the impact of commodities prices, measured through the CRB index, over the stock markets of six emerging economies, strongly dependent of these type of products, is analyzed. The sample includes South Africa, Brazil, Chile, India and Mexico, as exporters, and China, as importer. Besides commodities prices, other variables have an influence over the stock markets behavior, being the market humor and the foreign exchange very relevant, even more when it comes to emerging markets, that are subject to a certain degree of speculation coming from foreign investors. So, this work includes the S&P 500 and the foreign exchange as a control variable to serve as a thermometer of these intentions. The analysis is split between the periods before and after the global financial crisis that took over the markets on the second semester of 2008. The intention behind this separation is to verify if the investors behavior has changed after the crisis and if local economic indicators demonstrated more relevance in their investment decisions. Generally, the conclusion is that the impact of commodities prices in the stock markets increased after the crisis, and that the influence of the external market humor decreased. One possible understanding for this finding is that commodities producers were indeed less affected by the crisis and their economic performances detached from developed countries. One of the main reasons for this detachment is the rise of other countries, such as China, as inducers of the world economic development, and the transformation of these very emergent economies into regional focuses of growth. / Este trabalho pretende estudar o impacto dos preços das commodities, medido através do índice CRB, sobre os mercados de renda variável de seis países considerados emergentes e que têm o desempenho de suas economias fortemente atrelados a esta categoria de produtos. Dentro da amostra selecionada, África do Sul, Brasil, Chile, Índia e México são exportadores de commodities, e a China, é importadora destes produtos. Além dos preços das commodities, outras variáveis influenciam o comportamento das bolsas de valores, sendo o humor de mercado e o câmbio bastante relevantes, ainda mais quando se avalia mercados emergentes, que estão sujeitos a um certo grau de especulação por parte de investidores estrangeiros. Portanto, este estudo inclui o S&P 500 e o câmbio como variáveis de controle para servir como termômetro destas intenções. A análise é dividida entre os períodos anterior e posterior à crise financeira global que assolou os mercados no segundo semestre de 2008. A intenção por trás desta separação é verificar se o comportamento dos investidores mudou depois da crise e se indicadores econômicos locais passaram a ser mais relevantes nas suas decisões de investimento. De forma geral, pode-se concluir que o impacto dos preços das commodities nos mercados de renda variável aumentou após a crise, e que a influência do humor do mercado externo diminuiu. Um possível entendimento para esta constatação é que os países produtores de commodities realmente foram menos afetados pela crise e o desempenho de suas economias se descolou dos países desenvolvidos. Um dos principais motivos para este descolamento é a ascensão de outros países como indutores do crescimento mundial, tal como a China, e a transformação destes mesmos países emergentes em pólos regionais de crescimento.

The correct measure and definition of liquidity in finance literature remains an unresolved empirical issue. The main objective of the present study was to develop, validate and test the liquidity mismatch index (LMI) developed by Brunnermeier, Krishnamurthy and Gorton (2012) empirically. Building on the work of these prior studies, the study undertook to develop a measure of liquidity that integrates both market liquidity and funding liquidity within a context of asset liability management. Liquidity mismatch indices were developed and then tested empirically to validate them by regressing them against the known determinants of liquidity. Furthermore, the study investigated the nexus between liquidity and profitability. The unit of analysis was a panel of 12 South African banks over the period 2005–2015. The study developed two liquidity measures – the bank liquidity mismatch index (BLMI) and the aggregate liquidity mismatch index (ALMI) – whose performances were compared to and contrasted with the Basel III liquidity measures and traditional liquidity measures using a generalised method of moments (GMM) model. Overall, the two constructed liquidity indices performed better than other liquidity measures. Significantly, the ALMI provided a better macro-prudential liquidity measure that can be utilised in dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) models, thus presenting a major contribution to the body of knowledge. Unlike the LMI, the BLMI and ALMI can be used to evaluate the liquidity of a given bank under liquidity stress events, which are scaled by theoretically motivated and empirically supported liquidity weights. The constructed BLMI contains information regarding the liquidity risk within the context of asset liability mismatches, and the measure used comprehensive data from bank balance sheets and from financial market measures. The newly developed liquidity measures are based on portfolio management theory as they account for the significance of liquidity spirals. Empirical results show that banks increase their liquidity buffers during times of turmoil as both BLMI and ALMI improved during the period 2007–2009. Subsequently, the improvement in economic performance resulted in a rise in ALMI but a decrease in BLMI. We found no evidence to support the theory that banks, which heavily depend on external funding, end up in serious liquidity problems. The findings imply that any policy implemented with the intention of increasing bank capital is good for bank liquidity since the financial fragility–crowding-out hypothesis is outweighed by the risk absorption hypothesis because the relationship between capital and bank liquidity is positive. / Finance, Risk Management and Banking / D. Phil. (Management Studies)

The aim of this thesis is to show how the unconventional monetary policy rounds of Quantitative Easing introduced in the United States between 2008 and 2014 have led to an increase in wealth inequality. The need for the thesis arises due to the uncharted nature of QE and because of more and more information is surfacing to light which points to this connection. By analysing the distribution of these funds and adding it to the then base distribution of money supply, this study was able to determine a significant 10 % increase in the Gini Index. Furthermore it highlights how a large portion of wealth was transferred from the middle class over to the top 5 % income households. Starting from a set of assumptions the calculation is performed by extrapolating the data required and by isolating the system from any external variables. The result is a theoretical model meant to describe the mechanism that links Quantitative Easing to wealth inequality. Moreover a detailed comparison is provided with the effect of a conventional monetary policy such as Open-Market Operations. Finally solutions to this issue are being discussed from economical, political and fiscal standpoints.