European Debt Crisis

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    Rating Agencies and Financial Speculation

    power of rating agencies | 13 | A world without rating agencies | 14 | Conclusions | 15 | References | 16 | The protagonists of the world market A rating agency is a private firm which publicly evaluates a company capacity to repay the debt issued. This capacity is classified using a scale that goes from a maximum of AAA and a minimum of DDD. Obviously the evaluation received influences the interests that a company has to pay to receive credit. Today the rating market is controlled

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    How Successful Is the Macroeconomic Framework Established by Emu? Answer by Focusing Specifically on Monetary Policy: Is the Ecb an Inflation-Targeting Central Bank? Evaluate Its Performance in the First Ten Years of Operation.

    The European Monetary Union (EMU) was established as a formal objective in 1992 from the Treaty of Maastricht. In 1995 initial details of a union currency “the Euro” was announced and in 1998 the European Central Bank (ECB) was created and in 1999 the Euro underwent a 3 year transition introducing the Euro notes and coins. The purpose of this text is to analyse in detail EMU’s macroeconomic framework and performance and how this has evolved in the past 10 years. Firstly, I will look into the fiscal

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    Cyprus Financial Crisis

    Cyprus Since the financial crisis of 2007/2008 in the United States, there has been a worldwide domino effect resulting in negative consequences for the economies of a number of countries. The Dominion of Cyprus remained relatively unscathed immediately preceding this economic downturn with a contraction of the economy as result of decreased tourism. In 2011, however, as a result of haircuts upwards of 50% on the Greek bonds that Cypriot banks had heavily invested in, Cyprus was no longer

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    European Union

    The European Union, also known as the EU, is a unique, treaty-based union that represents and manages economic and political collaboration among its member countries. The EU was created following the Second World War and was established by the Treaty of Maastricht in 1993. Before the EU was created, the first task was to establish economic cooperation so that countries that trade with one another are more likely to steer clear of conflict. The European Economic Community (EEC) was created in 1958

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    Secular Sagnation

    A VoxEU.org eBook edited by Coen Teulings and Richard Baldwin CEPR Press abcde Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is a network of almost 900 research economists based mostly in European universities. The Centre’s goal is twofold: to promote world-class research, and to get the policy-relevant results into the hands of key decision-makers. CEPR’s guiding principle is ‘Research excellence with policy relevance’. A registered charity

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    Financial Markets

    Statement on Monetary Policy – February 2012 Box D: Covered Bond Issuance by Australian Banks Covered bonds are on-balance sheet asset-backed securities issued by financial institutions. Investors in covered bonds have a preferential claim on a pool of assets (called the cover pool) in the event that the issuing institution fails to make the scheduled payments on the covered bond. If the cover pool is insufficient to meet the issuer's obligations to investors, they have an unsecured claim on the

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    Analysis of the Trade Impacts of the Global Recession of 2008

    market * Trade Imbalance and debt bubbles * Lack of Transparency * Misguided information from the rating agencies 4. Effects on global trade * Trade and Industrial production * Unemployment * Financial market * Travel * Insurance * Small business lending * Pollution 5. Global responses 6. Policy recommendations 7. Risks 8. References Introduction In 2008, the world experienced a major financial crisis which was rooted from the US

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    Australian Dollar Forecast

    Raashi Chawla Australian Dollar Analysis History: * The Australian Dollar is the currency of the Common Wealth of Australia, including Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Norfolk Islands as well as the independent Pacific Island States of Kiribati, Nauru and Tuvalu. Within Australia it is almost always abbreviated with the dollar sign ($), with A$ sometimes used to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies. It is subdivided into 100 cents. * Prior to 1983

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    Asian Crisis

    16 References 18 Introduction Asian Contagion In March 1997 Asia faced a serious crisis in financial sector. This concern was started from Thailand and has spread to a lot of countries in Asia. Obviously it affected to those countries in economy situation such as currency value. Also called the "Asian Contagion", this was a series of

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    Recent Financial Crisis

    Current financial crisis Economic growth involves metamorphosis of the financial system. Forms of banks and bank money change. These changes, if not addressed, leave the banking system vulnerable to crisis. There is no greater challenge in economics than to understand and prevent financial crises. The financial crisis of 2007-2008 provides the opportunity to reassess our understanding of crises. All financial crises are at root bank runs, because bank debt—of all forms—is vulnerable to sudden

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