The Recent Financial Crisis - Causes and Consequences

This bachelor paper called "The Recent Financial Crisis - Causes and Consequences" defines the concept of a financial crisis, types of a crisis and its examples in the first, theoretical, part. The second section is devoted to the description of this crisis' origins, the development in the United States and the situation in the US mortgage market. Additionally, specific tools of the mortgage market are depicted as well as the function of rating agencies and the regulation of the US financial market. The third part concerns itself with the proliferation of the crisis from the financial market into the real economy and also its diffusion across the whole world. Finally, the crisis' consequences in the EU member countries and the United States of America are compared