U.S. Bank Stocks and the Subprime Crisis

Master's Thesis from the year 2009 in the subject Business economics - Banking, Stock Exchanges, Insurance, Accounting, grade: 1,00, Fachhochschule des bfi Wien GmbH, language: English, abstract: This paper examines if U.S. American banks that announced write-offs in their quarterly reports, due to the so-called subprime crisis, show abnormal returns in relation to the S&P 500 index in 4 diffe...