The latest financial turmoil of 2007 revealed the vulnerability of the banking system to absorb financial shocks and to manage credit disturbances. The crisis exposed some characteristics of the market: the banking system ...
The acronym BRIC stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China. The term was coined by the Chief Economist of Goldman Sachs, in 2001, in a paper titled ‘Building Better Global Economic BRICs’, which looked at the growth ...
The Lebanese banking system is seen as having a key role for the region’s development, by being the entry point for capital inflows in addition to the fact that Lebanon’s high fiscal deficits are financed largely by domestic ...
This paper explores the impact of high public debt on long-run economic growth. The analysis, based on a panel of 38 advanced economies over almost four decades, takes into account a broad range of determinants of growth ...
The Financial Crisis that started in 2008 has been the main concern of financial analysts, regulators and economists. Regulatory bodies, mainly, the Federal Reserves issued different policy actions and announcements in an ...
This project examines the current crisis of the global economy, the so called “great recession”, it emphasizes on the causes of the crisis and whether we can link it to the causes of the Great Depression. The project also ...
Islamic banking is one type of banking system that complies with Islamic regulations and abides by the principles of Sharia'. This sector has witnessed growth over the past few decades and had its own individual response ...
The 2008 financial crisis has had devastating impact on the global economy in general and the real estate sector in particular driving down real estate prices in North America and the Middle East. This project after a ...
The world is witnessing today a financial crisis that is considered the worst since the last depression of the 1930s. This crisis is called credit crunch and it is mainly due to a burst of a housing bubble originated in ...
This paper evokes the real estate prices in Lebanon, as since 2005, prices have risen significantly and provoked a big lag between the purchasing power of citizens and real estate prices. It addresses the notion of bubbles ...
The policy dilemma emanating from maintaining internal and external balances in a world of free capital mobility and rigid exchange rate regimes has exposed many developing countries during the 1990s to financial and ...