Causes, progress, consequences and another aspects of the global financial crisis 2008 in international comparison

The subject of this thesis is the description of trends in economy during global financial crisis in 2008. The main object of this work is to find causes and especially to analyze the mortgage bubble in financial markets, panic, uncertainty and risk spreading to other sectors. This work analyzes many consequences, which have been caused by financial crisis on global economy. This thesis also focuses on evaluation of important institution's influence, such as investment banks, insurance companies and rating agencies on financial crises. There are used microeconomic and macroeconomic indicators to analyze financial markets and national economies of countries which were affected by the crisis. Also is analyzed if interventions of central bank and government were eligible. This issue is discussed in part which describes economic cycles from perspective of the Austrian school of economics