Title: The crisis
Description: The purpose of this lecture is to look beyond the complex events that characterize the global financial and economic crisis, identify the basic mechanisms, and infer the policies needed to resolve the current crisis, as well as the policies needed to reduce the probability of similar events in the future. Keywords: financial crisis, credit, liquidity, spreads, leverage. JEL Classifications: E32, E44.
Subjects: Credit, Financial crises, Liquidity (Economics), Financial leverage