Subprime loans played a major role in the global financial crisis that began in 2007. Many of the subprime mortgages that were issued in the years leading up to the crisis carried adjustable interest rates. For the first several years, the borrower's interest rate and monthly payments remained ...
result of the financial crisis, an automotive industry crisis developed in Germany in 2008 that led to a governmental economic stimulus measure in the form of a car scrapping incentive (Abwrackprämie) which led private households to invest in new cars rather than in, for example, PV systems...
Fig. 2.A majority of the respondents noted that the financial crisis can have an effect on RE implementation (the “yes” category). A minority of respondents considered that the financial crisis had no effect (“no”), were not sure (“not sure”) or did not make a selection -no data...
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Susan Lund: Global financial imbalances refer to the fact that some countries save a lot and invest less, and other countries invest a lot and save very little. The US is an example of a country that was investing a lot in real estate, but its own savings rate...
One can broadly group such risky securities into two categories; one, mortgage or other loans that are backed with assets, and are subject to defaults on payments. For example, Merrill Lynch sold CDO exposures recently at 22 cents on a dollar. Part of the defaults on such securities can be...
(see chart), leaving the government with less fiscal firepower to support the economy in the event of a downturn. The problem is even more acute in parts of Europe: for example,Italy’s debt-to- GDP ratio has balloonedto 150%, from pre-GFC levels of nearer 100%. M...
real estate funds remained negative, with a pooled IRR of –1.1 percent through the third quarter of 2024. Open-end funds were also under pressure: NFI-OE4funds recorded a gross return of –1.6 percent in 2024, registering their second annual decline since the 2008 global financial crisis. ...
example, the emissions levels embodied in exports to North America and Western Europe were 377 and 351 Mt CO2in 2007, accounting for 25 and 23% of the total, respectively. After the global financial crisis, however, the import demand from developed economies was much weaker than that from ...