Ocaya (2012) state that the credit crisis is a financial market or economic meltdown of borrowing the funds to the borrower and cannot get back, it evaluated by severe shortage of money or credit bring accumulation of bad debts, defaults and falling financial institutions among others. However, the experts and economists are unclear as what form a credit crisis. The Wall Street defines a credit crisis as a “period during which borrowed funds are difficult to get and, even if funds can find, interest rates are very high”.
Credit crisis mostly began in 2007. The effect of the credit crisis has brought fall down on the housing market in some country resulting in foreclosures and unemployment. In addition, the credit crisis had immediate effects on property markets but has spread into global trade and has affected the overall prediction global economic growth , forcing growth target of many countries changing down. While they are some countries had not severely affected by the credit crisis.
This critical discuss or analysis involves a title of bank CEO incentives were major causes in credit crisis that links to the journal of “Bank CEO incentives and the credit crisis”, written by Fahlenbrach and Stulz (2011) and other journal as well.
Fahlenbrach and Stulz (2011) stated that investigation of justification for the dramatic collapse of the equity capital of much of the banking industry in the U.S, one highlight argument is that bank executive has poor incentives during the credit crisis. They decide how close the relationship between interests of the bank CEO will aligned with those of their shareholders before the beginning of the crisis, whether this can describe banks performance in the intersect section during the credit c...
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Just as the great depression, a booming economy had been experienced before the global financial crisis. The economy was growing at a faster rtae bwteen 2001 and 2007 than in any other period in the last 30 years (wade 2008 p23). An vast amount of subprime mortgages were the backbone to the financial collapse, among several other underlying issues. As with the great depression, there would be a number of factors that caused such a devastating economic
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“The housing market will get worse before it gets better” –James Wilson. The collapse of the United States housing market in in 2008 was one of the most devastating moments for the world economy. The United Sates being arguably the most important and powerful nation in the world really brought everyone down with this event. Canada was very lucky, thanks to good planning and proper preventatives to avoid what happened to the United States. There were many precursor events that occurred that showed a distinct path that led to the collapse of the housing market. People were buying house way out of their range because of low interest rates, the banks seemingly easily giving out massive loans and banks betting against the housing market. There were
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In terms of looking at how credit rating agencies affected the market as a whole, they played a role within the mortgage crisis as they gave way to a real estate credit bubble. The mortgage crisis seems to have b...
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Executive compensation has come under increasing scrutiny in recent literature in the wake of the growing publicity surrounding managerial failures and executive self-interest. Financial experts have long been examining the problem of aligning the performance of executives with their salaries and benefits. Public discontent with the visible top-heaviness of the compensation structure has brought this issue into the spotlight throughout the business world. Experts point to the flaws of traditional payment schemes and offer a number of different solutions. Shareholder value and the success of the firm can be significantly affected by executive performance. Hence, understanding the advantages and costs of the current trends in executive compensation is crucial to the compensation committee of a Fortune 500 corporation.
In the United States, the term executive compensation has many factors that have driven change in the landscape of executive compensation. Examples of those elements include the turmoil in commodity prices, market volatility, and political pressure for the reform of the executive compensation. Further, the executive compensation in the U.S. beats the average worker’s salary growth by a wider margin. However, when looking at the Sarbanes-Oxley Act which was supported by Paul Sarbanes and Michael Oxley represented a massive adjustment to the securities law. Further due to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, publicly-traded and privately-held companies are obligated to implement and report in-house accounting controls to the SEC for compliance. Nonetheless, I will expand on whether executive compensation is ethical or unethical in the workplace, as well as if the Sarbanes-Oxley Act too strict or not strict enough as it relates to investors.
Financial crises have influenced the os of financial markets in past. The most important the Great Depression in 1929-30, the 1970s inflation failures and the banking difficulties in the 1990s led to problems in the financial markets causing serious disturbance. The recent financial crisis which became known in 2007, though the roots were implanted much earlier, has been the worst situation financial markets have ever faced.
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The failure of adequate board accountability has indicated strong adverse effects on corporate performance including, the bankruptcy of various public companies, thereby casting serious doubt on the credibility and efficacy of board accountability. For example, Lehman Brothers scandal, the largest bankruptcy in U.S history, Northern Rock was a large failure of a financial institution in the United Kingdom (Hull 2015:16). In Ireland, the Anglo-Irish Bank created a huge bubble that plunged the state into economic recession. In September 28, 2008, the Irish Government signed into law, the “bank guarantee” which provided with immediate effect a guarantee arrangement to safeguard all deposits in retail, commercial, institutional and interbank transactions, covered bonds, senior debt and dated subordinated debt (Lenihan 2008). Banks in Ireland clearly needed yet more capital from the State (Irish Times 19 November 2011) and this underscores the need for the government’s bailout