Analyzing Financial Crises Project Leader: Yasmin Venema

Project Guidelines Choose a historical crisis to analyze Choose a country affected by that historical crisis Use economic statistics to evaluate how the market was affected by the crisis How long did the economy take to recover? Use those statistics and factors to forecast recovery process from current financial crisis

Main Objectives Learn how to analyze market performance Be able to forecast economic changes Understand how political and social factors affect economic performance

Project Timeline Week 1- 2 - Background Readings on analyzing financial crises Week 3- Meet up to decide on country and financial crisis to analyze Week 4-5 Assign parts of financial crisis to analyze Week 6- Share individual information amongst group members Week 7- Discuss and finalize opinions on economic forecast Week 8- Prepare presentation materials Week- 9 – Practice presentation/ perform presentation

Why? Interest in market analysis possibly becoming a financial/economic analyst Keep up with the market changes and financial crisis Learn ways to evaluate economic performance and forecast the market