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- How Mass Media Use Crisis Communications for Political Gain: the Broadcast Industry, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina
- It's a common observation that crises such as wars, recessions, stock market meltdowns, ethics scandals, and natural catastrophes often drive the public policymaking process. A crisis reveals a problem and then a public consensus emerges that policymakers must do something about it. The policy debate then centers on the best...
- White papers 2006-08-30
- Crises in Emerging Market Economies: A Global Perspective
- The paper argues that global financial factors played an important role in the capital-inflow episode in Emerging Market economies EMs, during the early part of the 1990s, and clearly in the Sudden Stop of capital inflows crises that took place after the 1998 Russian crisis. Moreover, the paper shows that...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- The Interactions Between Debt and Currency Crises -Common Causes or Contagion?
- In contrast to the well-known twin currency and banking crises the literature has so far neglected a second type of twin crises, the simultaneous occurrence of currency and debt crises. This empirical analysis finds some evidence that one-year lagged debt crisis strongly Granger causes currency crisis and two-year lagged currency...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- Timing of International Bailouts
- This paper proposes that international rescue financing should not be provided to a country where a crisis first occurs, but rather to any country that suffers a subsequent crisis. Such a timing-based lending facility can be Pareto-superior to both laissez-faire and existing international crisis lending facilities, when domestic governments have...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- The Risks Underlying Hedge Funds Strategies
- This paper establishes a theoretical risk matrix based on 23 different hedge funds strategies and their underlying risk factors. It studies in parallel the impact of some of the major market crises of the last decade on ten of the largest hedge funds strategies. Dominant risks are identified for each...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- A Large Speculator in Contagious Currency Crises: A Single "George Soros" Makes Countries More Vulnerable to Crises, But Mitigates Contagion
- This paper studies the model that proposes a new contagion channel and shows how a currency crisis can spread from one country to another even when these countries are totally unrelated in terms of economic fundamentals. It finds that the better the economic fundamentals in the originating crisis country, the...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- From the Cockpit: Lessons in Leading Through Crisis
- The pace of change impacting practice managers has never been greater. From consolidations, mergers, and acquisitions to re-engineering profit centers, managers are faced with what often appears to be "crisis" situations. And with crisis comes the fact that staff often experience anxiety, the off-shoot of fear. This article offers practical...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Role of Hedge Funds and Other Factors During the 1997 Financial Crisis in Thailand
- Hedge funds are often blamed for a number of worldwide financial crises, most notably the Asian crisis in 1997. This paper first uses a regression analysis to examine the effect of hedge funds from 1994 to 1997. The results of the analysis show that hedge funds played a relatively small...
- White papers 2002-12-18
- Sustainable Globalization and Emerging Economies: The Impact of Foreign Direct Investment in Thailand
- Foreign direct investment is often considered as simultaneously being one of the consequences and drivers of globalisation. In the process of opening up economies to participate in some of the positive impacts of globalisation, countries position themselves in respect of attracting foreign direct investment. The Asian economic crisis has highlighted...
- White papers 2002-12-18
- Fire-Sale FDI and Liquidity Crises
- In placing capital market imperfections at the center of emerging market crises, the theoretical literature has associated a liquidity crisis with low foreign investment and the exit of investors from the crisis economy. However, a liquidity crisis is equally consistent with an inflow of foreign capital in the form of...
- White papers 2002-08-12
- Do Hedge Funds Disrupt Emerging Markets
- This paper examines the Asian currency crisis of 1997?in particular, the role in the crisis of the "carry trade," a highly leveraged strategy popular among banks and domestic corporations during the two years preceding the crisis. The unwinding of this popular strategy in light of concerns about the viability of...
- White papers 2000-11-08
- Banks, Short Term Debt and Financial Crises
- Short-term borrowing has often been blamed for precipitating financial crises. Institutions like banks that want to enhance their ability to provide liquidity and credit to difficult borrowers have to borrow short-term. Similarly countries that have poor disclosure rules and inadequate investor protections, have limited long-term debt capacity, and will find...
- White papers 2000-08-03
- The Mexican Peso Crisis
- This article is about the Peso Crisis and defines different types of debt crises - Debt crises arrive in different ways: in the Peso Crisis, the local currency was suddenly massively devalued against the U.S. dollar, while the 1982 Debt Crisis was caused by rising interest rates causing the...
- White papers 1995-01-01
- American Capitalism in Crisis?
- The business of America may be business, but America's most prestigious book reviews don't pay much attention to it. So it's worth noting Riches to Rags, the New York Times Book Review's look at "Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism," by Kevin Phillips....
- Blog posts 2008-08-06
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- Pension Funds Target Distressed & Opportunity Markets, More at iiBIG Las Vegas Forum
- iiBIG presents the 2nd Annual Distressed &Turnaround Investment Forum, scheduled for September 22-23, 2008, at thePalazzo/Venetian Congress Center in Las Vegas. Along with the usualsuspects -- hedge funds, asset-based lenders, private equity firms, andother investment banks -- eyeing the distressed markets, institutionalinvestors are keen in this area as well. Ed...
- Articles 2008-08-20
- Pentagon considers next moves to counter Russia: analysts
- WASHINGTON AFP — The United States has ruled out the use of US military force in Georgia, but the Pentagon will almost certainly be looking for other chess pieces to move to check a more aggressive Russia, analysts say. Will it rebuild and strengthen the militaries of Georgia...
- Articles 2008-08-20
- Markets tumble as Rogoff warns worst of credit crisis still to come
- Big US bank failure forecast by former IMF chief economist Stocks slide in London, New York Renewed fears about the length and severity of the financial crisis sent shivers through markets yesterday after an influential economist predicted a big American bank failure and said...
- Articles 2008-08-20
- Retail brokers battle with Wall Street banks over auction-rate debt
- The most powerful retail brokerages in the US are waging war against Wall Street's big investment banks over the $330bn auction- rate securities mis-selling scandal. The brokerages are arguing it was not they who misled their clients but the underwriters on Wall Street who misled them. ...
- Articles 2008-08-19
- Apollo Real Estate Advisors Increases Capital for U.S. Debt Fund
- NEW YORK, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Apollo Real Estate Advisors announced that it has raised additional capital for its debt investment fund, Apollo Real Estate Finance Corp. AREFIN. Apollo increased overall capital for AREFIN's investment program from $621 million to $930 million through the formation of AREFIN Co-Investment...
- Articles 2008-08-19
- BNP beats forecasts with 34% fall in earnings
- BNP PARIBAS, the bank that signalled the severity of the financial turmoil nearly a year ago, rode out the crisis in the second quarter with profit ahead of expectations. France's biggest listed bank reported a 34 per cent fall in second quarter net profit to euro 1.51bn...
- Articles 2008-08-07
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