Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why We Don’t See Them Coming

✍ Scribed by Gary B. Gorton

Publisher: Oxford University Press USA - OSO
Year: 2012
Tongue: English
Leaves: 293
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A leading authority on financial crises reveals why they happen and why economists didn't predict the collapse of 2007-2008.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Preface
I. INTRODUCTION
II. CREATING THE QUIET PERIOD
III. FINANCIAL CRISES
IV. LIQUIDITY AND SECRETS
V. CREDIT BOOMS AND MANIAS
VI. THE TIMING OF CRISES
VII. ECONOMIC THEORY WITHOUT HISTORY
VIII. DEBT DURING CRISES
IX. THE QUIET PERIOD AND ITS END
X. MORAL HAZARD AND TOO-BIG-TO-FAIL
XI. BANK CAPITAL
XII. FAT CATS, CRISIS COSTS, AND THE PARADOX OF FINANCIAL CRISES
XIII. THE PANIC OF 2007-8
XIV. THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF SEEING
Bibliographic Notes
Notes
References
Index
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