FINANCIAL CRISIS 2008

Financial Crisis 2008 and Role of United Kingdom



Abstract

This paper analyzes the role of UK during the financial crisis of 2008. For this purpose the paper analyses how firms' capital-labour ratio is affected by cash flow, leverage, and collateral, and how this effect differs at firms more and less likely to face financing constraints using a rich UK firm-level data set. It is common in the literature to examine the impact of financial constraints on hiring and firing decisions separately from their impact on decisions related to investment in physical capital. We argue that as long as firms use both inputs in production and there is some substitutability between them, the two decisions need to be jointly analysed. When we differentiate across firms that are more or less financially constrained, we find that the former group exhibits higher sensitivities of the capital-labour ratio to firm-specific characteristics compared to the latter.

Table of Contents

ABSTRACT2

TABLE OF CONTENTS3

CHAPTER I5

Introduction5

CHAPTER II10

Literature Review10

Introduction10

Overall market performance12

Market sector performance25

Country market analysis33

Industry performance43

Financial sector performance57

Style portfolio performance67

Volatility68

Correlations70

Conclusion and implications for future research76

CHAPTER III79

Methodology79

Data analysis and classification schemes83

Sample separation criteria83

CHAPTER IV86

Results86

The nexus between firm-specific characteristics and the K/L ratio86

Capital market imperfections and the K/L ratio90

CHAPTER V101

Conclusions101

CHAPTER I

Introduction

This paper investigates how firms' capital-labour ratio is influenced by money flow, leverage, and collateral, and how this result disagrees at companies more and less probable to face financing constraints. A large number of theoretical and empirical investigations have shown that the firm's economic place is significant for its repaired buying into and paid work conclusions under imperfect economic markets (see (Hubbard, 1998) and (Bond and Van Reenen, 2006), for surveys). Recent clues from the UK, offered by (Carpenter and Guariglia, 2008) and (Guariglia, 2008), disclose that the firm's repaired buying into alternative and borrowing frictions are really interrelated.1 The publications on economic components and paid work conclusions is scarce and Benito and Hernando (2008) supply comprehensive clues that flexible work may have more affirmative penalties for paid work in the occurrence of economic constraints. Overall, empirical investigations of firm buying into and paid work powerfully propose that alterations in snare worth and accordingly in firms' genuine conclusions (investment, employment) originate from data difficulties in economic markets. Campello et al. (2008) display that these alterations are magnified throughout the present borrowing urgent position as financially guarded companies in the US design to decrease, amidst other genuine conclusions, paid work and capital buying into in 2009.

The scholarly publications on paid work propose that highly leveraged companies emerge to be less prone to hoard work than less leveraged companies Sharpe (1994). In supplement, a large number of empirical outcome article contradictory consequences of leverage and liability service on paid work ([Cantor, 1990], [Nickell and Nicolitsas, 1999] and [Benito and Hernando, 2008]). On the other hand, empirical outcome from the repaired buying into publications are more contentious and in specific the topic of if an affirmative and statistically important connection between buying into and money flow can be glimpsed as a sign of financing ...