Search for dissertations about: "financial contagion"
Showing result 1 - 5 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words financial contagion.
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1. Essays in Financial Economics
Abstract : Chapter 1 develops a framework to investigate the impact of the financial crisis starting in 2007 and employs an extended GARCH model to test for spillover and contagion effects originating from the financial sector. We find that the financial crisis affects financially distressed firms more heavily than non-distressed firms. READ MORE
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2. Essays on Financial Risks and the Subprime Crisis
Abstract : This thesis covers the impact of the financial crisis of 2007-2009, the non-linearity in the impact of bankruptcy risk on leverage and the effect of pessimism and doubt on the equity premium. It consists of four self-contained essays. READ MORE
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3. Essays on Information Transmission and Crisis Spillover in the Financial Markets
Abstract : This doctoral dissertation comprises three independent essays on information transmission and crisis spillover in the financial markets. The research questions are examined in the context of the foreign exchange market, the stock market and the global banking system. READ MORE
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4. Changing the Rules of the Game : A Market Microstructure Perspective on the Effects of Regulating Financial Markets
Abstract : This dissertation contains four articles that examine the effects brought about by the implementation of new regulations and changes in the trading landscape on different facets of market quality and integrity.Article I studies how the fragmentation of equity markets affects the speed of recovery of the market, both under normal market conditions and in times of stress. READ MORE
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5. Essays on stochastic volatility
Abstract : This dissertation consists of five papers concerned with the estimation and analysis of financial price processes. The first paper develops a stock price model and analyzes the impact of the US and the regional European stock markets on the local European countries’ stock markets. READ MORE