us 2008 financial crisis, spreaded out across the international stock markets in the second half of the year 2008. the crisis decreased the returns and increased the volatilities of almost all of the stock indices, however, its effects on iran’s stock markets were unexplored. financial limitations create an exclusive situation in iran’s stock market. using weekly data on the stock indices from ...

The recent global crisis, as a big crash ( Baldwin and Simon , 2009), has reduced foreign demand growth affecting total countries’ exports. Given the importance of foreign trade to nations and the reality that recent crisis has affected international trade we study the effects of the global financial crisis on trade relations between countries by using Ma and Cheng (2003) approach and by appl...

The paper provides new empirical evidence on factors that determine the profitability of the banking sector of the Republic of Korea. The empirical findings indicate that the banks of the Republic of Korea with high capitalization levels tend to have higher profitability levels. However, the impact of credit is consistently negative under both controlled and uncontrolled macroeconomic and finan...

Since the 1980s, banks and financial service institutions have been running in an endless race of innovation to cope with the advancing technology, the fierce competition, and the more sophisticated and demanding customers. In order to guide their innovation efforts, several researches were conducted to identify the success and failure factors of new financial services. These mainly included or...

India is much more integrated with the world economy. Both current and capital accounts are complementing to each other. The economic slowdown that appears to have begun in the USA in September, 2008 has some negative impact on Indian economy. The most immediate and adverse effect of this global financial crisis on India is an out flow of Foreign Institutional Investment (FII) from the capital ...

The study is basically an extension of the k-day Vol ratio analysis on Nifty Index, proposed by Viswanathan and Maheswaran (2016). It examines the impact of the global financial crisis of 2008 on the structure of volatility of global indices (S&P500, FTSE100 and DAX). The global indices did not experience a significant change in volatility structure. On comparison, the behavior of volatility of...

In the wake of the global financial crisis much attention has been devoted to the role of complexity of bank linkages in the transmission of shocks. We shed light on this issue using a rich dataset on international syndicated bank lending matched with bank financial information. To study how financial crises spread through the global banking network, we distinguish among channels such as banks'...