A global history of the financial crash of 2007-2010
By: Johan A. Lybeck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781107648883; 9781107011496
Subjects: Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009; Finanzkrise; Financial crises
Description: A detailed yet non-technical analysis of the recent financial crisis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 372-387) and index.

Also issued online.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Financial crises in the USA and Europe, but not in Asia; title: Appendix 2.1. Chronology of events: January 2007-June 2011; title: Could today's financial crisis have been foreseen?; title: The US housing market and the subprime crisis; title: Securitization and derivatives spread the crisis around the world; title: Appendix 5.1 Inherent conflicts of interest in subprime securitization; Appendix 5.2 Write-downs in banks and insurance companies, 2007-2009; title: Liquidity risk aspects of the crisis and a comparison with 1907 and 1929; title: Appendix 6.1 The liquidity-risk framework proposed by theFSA and the BIS; title: Credit risk aspects of the crisis, rating and solvency; title: Appendix 7.1 Government support activities for banks' capital ratios, 2007-2010; title: Appendix 7.2 The proposed new capital requirements under Basel III; title: Worldwide changes in regulation and supervision as a result of the crisis; title: Appendix 9.1. list of regulatory authorities in the United States; title: Appendix 9.2. Overview of bank taxes in different countries; title: Outstanding issues.