Financial instability : toolkit for interpreting boom and bust cycles /
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| Author / Creator: | D'Apice, Vincenzo, 1976- |
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| Imprint: | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. |
| Description: | xxiii, 221 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Palgrave Macmillan studies in banking and financial institutions Palgrave Macmillan studies in banking and financial institutions. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8115448 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Boxes
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Introduction
- Part I. Understanding the Financial Crises
- 1. Theories of Financial Crises
- 1.1. The Minsky model
- 1.2. Management and prevention of crises
- 2. Macro Models of Financial Crises
- 2.1. The first-generation models
- 2.2. The second-generation models
- 2.3. The third-generation models
- 3. Micro Models of Financial Crises
- 3.1. Adverse selection and moral hazard
- 3.2. The role of the banking system
- 3.3. Asymmetric information and financial crises
- 4. Transmission Channels of Financial Crises
- 4.1. Money view
- 4.2. Credit view
- 4.3. The credit rating agencies
- 5. The International Monetary Fund
- Part II. Liberalization, Crises and Mega-Corporate Bankruptcies
- 6. The Great Depression of the 1930s
- 6.1. The debate on the causes of the Great Depression
- 7. From Bretton Woods to Financial Globalization
- 8. Recent Financial Crises
- 8.1. The Latin American crisis of the 1980s
- 8.2. The Savings & Loan crisis
- 8.3. The Scandinavian crisis
- 8.4. The Mexican crisis of 1994-95
- 8.5. The East Asian crisis of 1997-98
- 8.6. The Russian crisis and the collapse of LTCM
- 8.7. The Crisis of Turkey and Argentina
- 8.8. The Japanese depression
- 9. The Mega-Bankruptcies of the Early 2000s
- 9.1. Enron
- 9.2. Parmalat
- 9.3. Similarities and differences between Enron and Parmalat
- 9.4. Untrustworthy auditing
- Part III. The Great Crisis of 2007-09
- 10. The Great Crisis of 2007-09
- 10.1. The chronology of the crisis
- 10.2. From liquidity crisis to financial crisis: amplification mechanisms
- 10.3. Transmission of the US subprime crisis to emerging markets
- 10.4. Origin of the crisis: macro elements
- 10.5. Origin of the crisis: micro elements
- 11. Crisis in Academic Economics
- 11.1. Questionable risk-pricing models derived from the finance theory
- 11.2. Fallacious evolutionary view subordinating banks to financial markets
- 11.3. Improvident monetary policy conduct by the Fed
- 12. Conclusions and Perspectives
- Appendix: Some Useful Definitions
- Notes
- References
- Index