What caused the financial crisis
By: edited by Jeffrey Friedman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780812221183
Subjects: Economic policy; Financial crises; Finance; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-335) and index.
Table of contents: title: Capitalism and the crisis : bankers, bonuses, ideology, and ignorance / Jeffrey Friedman; title: An accident waiting to happen : securities regulation and financial deregulation / Amar Bhid; title: Monetary policy, credit extension, and housing bubbles : 2008 and 1929 / Steven Gjerstad and Vernon L. Smith; title: The anatomy of a murder : who killed the American economy? / Joseph E. Stiglitz; title: Monetary policy, economic policy, and the financial crisis : an empirical analysis of what went wrong / John B. Taylor; title: Housing initiatives and other policy factors / Peter J. Wallison; title: How securitization concentrated risk in the financial sector / Viral V. Acharya and Matthew Richardson; title: A regulated meltdown : the Basel rules and banks' leverage / Juliusz Jablecki and Mateusz Machaj; title: The credit-rating agencies and the subprime debacle / Lawrence J. White; title: Credit-default swaps and the crisis / Peter J. Wallison; title: The crisis of 2008 : lessons for and from economics / Daron Acemoglu; title: The financial crisis and the systemic failure of the economics profession / David Colander ... [et al.]; title: Afterword : the causes of the financial crisis / Richard A. Posner.