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Covid-19: An Optimal Strategy To Resume Life With Safety And Economic Prosperity, Skyler Tate
Covid-19: An Optimal Strategy To Resume Life With Safety And Economic Prosperity, Skyler Tate
Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses
The coronavirus pandemic has hit the world hard since the beginning of 2020, and the United States has certainly felt a negative impact. Many important aspects of life have been greatly altered by the pandemic, and this has resulted in a hindered economy. The purpose of this project was to determine if there is an optimal strategy with respect to policy and the economy that the United States could implement in order to mitigate the coronavirus. In order to determine this, I evaluated multiple aspects of the disease through a literature review. Upon review, I conducted a survey and performed …
Do Investors Value The Required Stress Tests Of Financial Holding Companies?, Brendan A. Colligan
Do Investors Value The Required Stress Tests Of Financial Holding Companies?, Brendan A. Colligan
Finance Undergraduate Honors Theses
This paper explores the value of disclosing stress test results to investors and market participants within the US financial system. Recently the Federal Reserve (“Fed”) expanded its required internal stress testing program, often referred to as the Dodd-Frank Act Stress Test (“DFAST”), to include bank holding companies (“BHCs”) with more than $10 billion in total assets. These BHCs were required to publicly disclose their results for the first time in June of 2015. Large BHCs are subject to another level of stress testing implemented by the Comprehensive Capital Analysis Review (“CCAR”). Large BHCs are defined as having more than $50 …