Shareholder Value in European Banks after the global financial crisis: an empirical analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Sebastiano Mazzu ◽  
Matteo Cotugno ◽  
Simona Galletta
Author(s):  
John Goddard ◽  
John O. S. Wilson

‘The global financial crisis and the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis’ describes the chain of events in the US financial crisis that then triggered the Eurozone banking collapse. It outlines the problems in US mortgage-backed securities, the collapse of three of the ‘big five’ investment banks (Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Merrill Lynch), and the actions of the US Federal Reserve and the Treasury. Several major European banks also foundered at the height of the financial crisis as a consequence of the US crisis and, by the end of 2014, five Eurozone member countries—Ireland, Greece, Spain, Portugal, and Cyprus—had received bailout loans from the EU and International Monetary Fund, conditional on the implementation of tough austerity measures.


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