Federal Reserve Policies and Financial Market Conditions during the Crisis

Financial market crisis and financial market channel

Financial Crisis Contagion and the OPEC Oil Market

The impact of the financial crisis on the OPEC oil market is important to us as an important member of OPEC and an oil-exporting country with an oil-dependent economy. This study examines four networks, pre-financial crisis, US financial crisis, European debt crisis and post-financial crisis, using the contagion index and complex network for the period 2007-1-2 to 26-8-2019. The results show th...

What were they thinking? The Federal Reserve in the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis

The Federal Reserve (the Fed) is responsible for monitoring, analyzing and ultimately stabilizing US financial markets. It also has unrivalled access to economic data, high-level connections to financial institutions, and a large staff of professionally trained economists. Why then was it apparently unconcerned by the financial developments that are now widely recognized to have caused the 2008...

The Federal Banking Regulators: Agency Capture, Regulatory Failure, And Industry Collapse During The 2008 Financial Crisis

THE FEDERAL BANKING REGULATORS: AGENCY CAPTURE, REGULATORYFAILURE, AND INDUSTRY COLLAPSE DURING THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRISISbyJUSTIN REXAugust 2013Advisor: Dr. Marjorie Sarbaugh-ThompsonMajor: Political ScienceDegree: Doctor of Philosophy This dissertation examines the process of agency capture at four federal bank regulatoryagencies leading up to the 2008 finan...

Forecasting the LIBOR-Federal Funds Rate Spread During and After the Financial Crisis

In this paper, we examine the statistical forecast accuracy of econometric models, surveys and futures rates in predicting the LIBOR-Federal Funds Rate (LIBOR-FF) spread during and after the financial crisis. We provide evidence that the futures market forecast outperforms all competing forecasts during and after the financial crisis. Our results also suggest that the predictive accuracy of the...