Global Financial Crisis: Implications for Future Business Education

1. Global Financial Crisis: Implications for Future Business Education Stephen Y L CHEUNG Professor (Chair) of Finance Dean, School of Business Hong Kong Baptist University

2. Contents • Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications • Sovereign Crisis • Consequences • Future Business Education

3. Origins • Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications • Financial crisis derives from the US housing market • Housing market in US • An unparalleled boom in 2007 • Negative real interest rates in US • Excess liquidity offered by financial innovation • High leverage

4. Real interest rate • Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications • Graph

5. Financial Innovation • Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications • Housing loans offered at back loaded teaser interest rates • Assuming that borrowers could refinance the sub prime loans through gains in home equity • But loan originating banks were smart …

6. What is Sub-prime loans? • Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications • (1) low credit scores • (2) No 20% down-payment for a home • (3) Unable to fully document their income • No Conventional mortgages • No Best market interest rates 6

7. What did the banks do? • Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications • Offloaded the sub-prime loans through instruments like Collateralized Debt Obligations • Modus Operandi of banks (loan originators) • Pool together mortgages, including sub prime loans, into CDOs • Get top notch credit ratings for senior tranches • Retain the highly rated senior derivatives through SIVS • Repackage the lower rated derivatives to transform them into synthetic CDOs • Investors : Hedge funds, money market and pension funds

9. The boom begins to unravel from 2004 • Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications • US Fed reacts to rising consumer and asset prices by monetary tightening from second half of 2004 • Housing prices begin to fall by end of 2006 • Rising interest rates and falling housing prices lead to rise in subprime mortgage delinquencies & foreclosures

10. Overloading… • Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications

11. Suffering… • Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications

12. Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications “Do you know the true balance sheet of US Investment banks?” There are two sides on the balance sheet: the left side and the right side.On the left side, there is nothing right.and on the right side, there is nothing left.

13. Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications “Yes, it’s true that the Chinese have been selling us toxic toothpaste, toxic pet food, toys with toxic lead paint —” “but all the while US was selling them toxic investments.”

14. China and India are the Saver • Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications

15. Policy implications • Causes of sub-prime crisis • Consequences • China and India • Policy implications • More hazard • A new financial order • Financial innovations • Credit rating agencies • Regulatory framework • Highly leveraged institutions • Regulator quality

16. Next Phrase in the Financial Crisis • Let us not be overly optimistic because of the buoyant world trade, stock market and GDP growth; • Financial crisis still among us; • Next phrase in the financial crisis (after subprime, banking & economic crisis); • Sovereign crisis

17. Government Budget Deficits, Percent of GDP, 2009 Budget deficits have exploded all over with the worst affected being in the advanced industrial world Iceland Greece UK Spain Ireland USA Portugal France Japan Czeck Belgium Russia Turkey Italy Netherlands Canada 0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18

18. Advanced Economies: Gross Debt-to-GDP Ratios, 2010 IMF Projections Debt-GDP ratios have been rumped up dramatically in many countries Percent (%) of GDP 250 225 Japan Iceland 200 Greece Italy 175 Belgium USA 150 France Canada 125 Portugal Israel 100 UK Germany 75 Ireland Austria Netherl Spain 50 25 0 Strategies for Fiscal Consolidation in the Post-Crisis World, IMF, February 4, 2010

19. Is the Greek Crisis Coming to America ?

20. Consequences • Contagion risk • Condition of spending costs and tax hikes • Market confidence & panic

21. Consequences • Liquidity squeeze => Excessive liquidity • Asset bubbles; stock and property prices • Commodity prices up • Inflation?

22. Consequences • Economy not recovered yet • High interest rates, negative impact on the fragile economy

23. Day after tomorrow: • Incentive system; how to compensate senior management? • Exit strategy? • Financial markets will be different • Risk management • Corporate governance

24. Future Business Education • The existing criteria for business school selection • Easy to get a job • How much the student can earn

25. More important • Professionalism • Integrity • Accountability • Ethic

26. Emphasis on: • Business Ethics • Corporate Governance • Corporate Social Responsibilities

27. 發財立品 • 未”發財”先”立品”

28. The End