TAKEOVER BIDS AND CAPITAL MARKET EFFICIENCY 89
... A variety of approaches are applied for testing market efficiency. The choice usually depends on the nature of the information being analysed. As mentioned in the introduction, market prices on a semi-strong form efficient market accurately reflect all publicly available information, which is absorb ...
... A variety of approaches are applied for testing market efficiency. The choice usually depends on the nature of the information being analysed. As mentioned in the introduction, market prices on a semi-strong form efficient market accurately reflect all publicly available information, which is absorb ...
Investors Guide To CMOs
... time remaining to the estimated maturity. Conversely, when rates fall, prices of outstanding CMOs generally rise, creating the opportunity for capital appreciation if the CMO is sold prior to the time when the principal is fully repaid. Movements in market interest rates have a greater effect on CMO ...
... time remaining to the estimated maturity. Conversely, when rates fall, prices of outstanding CMOs generally rise, creating the opportunity for capital appreciation if the CMO is sold prior to the time when the principal is fully repaid. Movements in market interest rates have a greater effect on CMO ...
Monitoring Financial System Stability
... financial crises are inherently difficult to predict – both in terms of their timing and their severity. In addition, after a long period of financial calm and strong economic growth, there is a natural tendency by many to argue that this time ‘things will be different’ – that economies are now some ...
... financial crises are inherently difficult to predict – both in terms of their timing and their severity. In addition, after a long period of financial calm and strong economic growth, there is a natural tendency by many to argue that this time ‘things will be different’ – that economies are now some ...
Administration Estimates Michigan Economic and Revenue Outlook FY 2008-09 and FY 2009-10
... decline slowed – although only slightly – in February. The index has posted double-digit yearover-year declines since January 2008. Compared to its peak level set in mid-2006, home prices are down 30.7 percent. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (formerly OFHEO), which excludes mortgages over $417,0 ...
... decline slowed – although only slightly – in February. The index has posted double-digit yearover-year declines since January 2008. Compared to its peak level set in mid-2006, home prices are down 30.7 percent. The Federal Housing Finance Agency (formerly OFHEO), which excludes mortgages over $417,0 ...
Repo Regret? - The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
... or the house price growth. The demand for housing may increase if borrowers expect a future growth in income. On the other hand, lenders might be more willing to lend more if they expect a growth in houses prices which in turn would reduce their loss given default. I find an expansion in mortgage cr ...
... or the house price growth. The demand for housing may increase if borrowers expect a future growth in income. On the other hand, lenders might be more willing to lend more if they expect a growth in houses prices which in turn would reduce their loss given default. I find an expansion in mortgage cr ...
Financing Growth without Banks: Korean Housing Repo Contract
... is key to successful economic development. However, the imperfect nature of financial intermediation has presented serious bottlenecks to the smooth flow of financing. The challenges posed by informational asymmetries and lack of enforcement mechanisms often rule out direct financing from savers to ...
... is key to successful economic development. However, the imperfect nature of financial intermediation has presented serious bottlenecks to the smooth flow of financing. The challenges posed by informational asymmetries and lack of enforcement mechanisms often rule out direct financing from savers to ...
Making Sense of the Markets
... Quantitative easing is a government monetary policy occasionally used to increase the money supply by buying government securities or other securities from the market. Quantitative easing increases the money supply by flooding financial institutions with capital in an effort to promote increased len ...
... Quantitative easing is a government monetary policy occasionally used to increase the money supply by buying government securities or other securities from the market. Quantitative easing increases the money supply by flooding financial institutions with capital in an effort to promote increased len ...
Ageing and asset prices, August 2010
... Nations (2008) population projections, uniformly point towards substantial demographic headwinds. For instance, the impact in the United States is estimated to be around 80 basis points per annum. European economies and Japan are expected to face even stronger headwinds. Based on the analysis, globa ...
... Nations (2008) population projections, uniformly point towards substantial demographic headwinds. For instance, the impact in the United States is estimated to be around 80 basis points per annum. European economies and Japan are expected to face even stronger headwinds. Based on the analysis, globa ...
TED Spread
... allowing a normalization of financial markets by mid-year 2009. The economy emerges from recession in the second half of 2009. Inflation turns negative early in 2009, but rises by the end of the year. The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, posts a return in the mid-teens, as a volatile first ...
... allowing a normalization of financial markets by mid-year 2009. The economy emerges from recession in the second half of 2009. Inflation turns negative early in 2009, but rises by the end of the year. The stock market, as measured by the S&P 500, posts a return in the mid-teens, as a volatile first ...
Impact Of Short Selling Activity On Market Dynamics
... showed signs of a pick up only after global financial crisis started to affect stock markets around the world. As our research demonstrates, aggregate short sales ratio for BIST100 market, which has never broken 4% level until early 2006 reached as much as 15% in late 2008 and has remained significa ...
... showed signs of a pick up only after global financial crisis started to affect stock markets around the world. As our research demonstrates, aggregate short sales ratio for BIST100 market, which has never broken 4% level until early 2006 reached as much as 15% in late 2008 and has remained significa ...
United States Housing Policy and Social Inequality: Homeownership
... To further communicate the affordability crises, it is important to understand whom, specifically, these burdens are falling on. Projections have shown a clear and consistent pattern across low-income quartiles with relative levels of being cost burdened with and severities as you move up the chain. ...
... To further communicate the affordability crises, it is important to understand whom, specifically, these burdens are falling on. Projections have shown a clear and consistent pattern across low-income quartiles with relative levels of being cost burdened with and severities as you move up the chain. ...
Crisis Alpha and Risk in Alternative Investment
... Investment strategies provide crisis alpha opportunities while others suffer substantial losses during times of market stress. Crisis alpha opportunities are profits which are gained by exploiting the persistent trends that occur across markets during crisis. By gaining a better understanding of wha ...
... Investment strategies provide crisis alpha opportunities while others suffer substantial losses during times of market stress. Crisis alpha opportunities are profits which are gained by exploiting the persistent trends that occur across markets during crisis. By gaining a better understanding of wha ...
Auto LoAns - Center for Responsible Lending
... Auto financing through the dealer is commonly referred to as “indirect financing,” but is actually a credit transaction directly financed by the dealer. Auto dealers describe their role in the transaction as merely an arranger, but that depiction vastly understates the dealers’ role and responsibili ...
... Auto financing through the dealer is commonly referred to as “indirect financing,” but is actually a credit transaction directly financed by the dealer. Auto dealers describe their role in the transaction as merely an arranger, but that depiction vastly understates the dealers’ role and responsibili ...
United States housing bubble
The United States housing bubble was an economic bubble affecting many parts of the United States housing market in over half of American states. Housing prices peaked in early 2006, started to decline in 2006 and 2007, and reached new lows in 2012. On December 30, 2008, the Case-Shiller home price index reported its largest price drop in its history. The credit crisis resulting from the bursting of the housing bubble is—according to general consensus—the primary cause of the 2007–2009 recession in the United States.Increased foreclosure rates in 2006–2007 among U.S. homeowners led to a crisis in August 2008 for the subprime, Alt-A, collateralized debt obligation (CDO), mortgage, credit, hedge fund, and foreign bank markets. In October 2007, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury called the bursting housing bubble ""the most significant risk to our economy.""Any collapse of the U.S. housing bubble has a direct impact not only on home valuations, but the nation's mortgage markets, home builders, real estate, home supply retail outlets, Wall Street hedge funds held by large institutional investors, and foreign banks, increasing the risk of a nationwide recession. Concerns about the impact of the collapsing housing and credit markets on the larger U.S. economy caused President George W. Bush and the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke to announce a limited bailout of the U.S. housing market for homeowners who were unable to pay their mortgage debts.In 2008 alone, the United States government allocated over $900 billion to special loans and rescues related to the U.S. housing bubble, with over half going to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (both of which are government-sponsored enterprises) as well as the Federal Housing Administration. On December 24, 2009, the Treasury Department made an unprecedented announcement that it would be providing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac unlimited financial support for the next three years despite acknowledging losses in excess of $400 billion so far. The Treasury has been criticized for encroaching on spending powers that are enumerated for Congress alone by the United States Constitution, and for violating limits imposed by the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008.