WORLD FINANCIAL CRISIS 2008-2009: CAUSES AND ECONOMIC IMPACT

Impact of the 2008 Economic and Financial Crisis on Child Health: A Systematic Review

The aim of this study was to provide an overview of studies in which the impact of the 2008 economic crisis on child health was reported. Structured searches of PubMed, and ISI Web of Knowledge, were conducted. Quantitative and qualitative studies reporting health outcomes on children, published since 2007 and related to the 2008 economic crisis were included. Two reviewers independently assess...

The impact of the financial and economic crisis on world trade and trade policy

Financial Markets during Economic Crisis

Contemporary financial depression of the financial markets proves high fluctuations of the prices of the stocks. These fluctuations have considerable impact on the values of the financial portfolios. Classical approaches to modeling of the behavior of the prices of the stocks may produce wrong predictions of their future values. That is the reason why we introduce in this paper the fractal mark...

BRIC dynamic conditional correlations , portfolio diversification and rebalancing after the global financial crisis of 2008 – 2009

Financial liberalisation has offered global investors with new investment opportunities via international portfolio diversification. Proper investment planning as well as portfolio diversification and rebalancing require low correlations between the assets under consideration. In general, correlations between countries have increased during the global financial crisis due to contagion, interdep...

Impact of risk taking on bank financial performance during 2008 financial crisis

This paper studies the relationship among corporate governance, risk taking and financial performance at bank holding companies’ (BHCs) during the financial crisis of 2008. While the paper did not find a significant relationship between corporate governance and risk-taking level, it shows that BHCs with lower risk performed better than BHCs with higher risk during the crisis. The results sugges...