Banking Crises [electronic resource] : Perspectives from the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics /
Jones, Garett.editor.
Why do banks collapse? Are financial systems more fragile in recent decades? Can policies to fix the banking system do more harm than good? What's the history of banking crises? With dozens of brief, non-technical articles by economists and other researchers, Banking Crises offers answers from diverse scholarly viewpoints.
Cover; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; List of Contributors; Bagehot, Walter (1826-1877); Bank of England; banking crises; banking industry; bubbles; bubbles in history; capital controls; Credit Crunch Chronology: April 2007-September 2009; credit rating agencies; currency crises; currency crises models; euro zone crisis 2010; Federal Reserve System; gold standard; Greek crisis in perspective: Origins, effects and ways-out; Great Depression; Great Depression, monetary and financial forces in; International Monetary Fund; international monetary institutions
Kindleberger, Charles P. (1910-2003)laboratory financial markets; Law, John (1671-1729); Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, what lessons can be drawn?; liquidity trap; Minsky crisis; New Deal; quantitative easing by the major western central banks during the global financial crisis; Run on Northern Rock, the; shadow banking: a review of the literature; speculative bubbles; South Sea bubble; subprime mortgage crisis, the ; tulipmania; Index
All articles first published in The new Palgrave dictionary of economics, 2nd edition in eight volumes, 2008 or The new Palgrave: a dictionary of economics, in four volumes, 1987.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Why do banks collapse? Are financial systems more fragile in recent decades? Can policies to fix the banking system do more harm than good? What's the history of banking crises? With dozens of brief, non-technical articles by economists and other researchers, Banking Crises offers answers from diverse scholarly viewpoints.
Macroeconomics.
Finance.
Banks and banking.
Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.
Finance, general.
Banking.