Influence of 2007-08 Financial Crisis on Corporate Finance

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Dang, Gary, and Holmstrom (2010, 125) described that the sub-prime mortgage crisis, which had started in the start of the year 2007, had developed into a matured financial crisis at the end of year 2008. The issues in the subprime mortgage loans sector of America had evolved into a wide spread credit crunch, which had swept over several markets of asset all over the world, which had made this financial crisis, the worst global financial crisis after the Great Depression of 1930s. This crisis had made a significant impact on the credit availability and; therefore, an impact on the corporate finance decisions of firms in UK. The current credit crisis had begun in August 2007 because of numerous defaults by costumers on subprime mortgages. This credit crisis has had striking impact on the U.S. financial sector and the world, overall. The consequences of the credit crisis included numerous failures of bank, the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers on, and the seizure of Washington. In this paper, we had tried to study the impact of the financial crisis on the corporate finance. This dissertation has discovered that the credit crisis did not made a very significant impact on the corporate finance decisions of firms in UK.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTII

DECLARATIONIII

ABSTRACTIV

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

1.1 Background of the study1

1.2 Introduction1

1.3 Problem statement7

1.4 Research objectives7

1.5 Rationale of the study8

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW9

2.1 Concept of Sub-prime Crisis9

2.2 A review of financial crisis of 2007-0812

2.3 The main features15

2.4 Global reaction to the financial crisis17

2.5 Theoretical construct for achieving the research objective18

2.6 The history of money market mutual funds: An important part of the corporate financing decisions of a firm19

2.7 The structure of money market mutual funds21

2.8 Literature gap and research contribution24

CHAPTER 3: METHODOLOGY27

3.1 Outline of quantitative and qualitative approaches to conducting research27

3.2 Quantitative methodology to be applied27

3.3 Empirical methodology applied28

3.4 Difference-in-Differences and Matching30

3.5 Euler Equation Estimation32