Explains how the financial crisis has challenged fundamental assumptions about leading economic models, drawing on twenty-first-century technologies and the expertise of behavioral economists to outline new forecasting practices
In the aftermath of the Financial Crisis, many commonly held beliefs have emerged to explain its cause. Conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using low down payments, teaser rates, and other predatory tactics to seduce unsuspecting home owners into…
In this bracing, page-turning account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, Neil Barofsky offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling of the $700 billion bailout fund. In vivid …
In this account of his stranger-than-fiction baptism into the corrupted ways of Washington, the author offers an irrefutable indictment, from an insider of the Bush and Obama administrations, of the mishandling of the $700 billion TARP bailout fund. In behind-the-scenes detail, …
The recent global financial crisis has challenged conventional wisdom, and our conception of globalisation has been called into question. This challenging and timely book revisits the relationship between globalisation, the crisis and the state from an interdisciplinary perspect…
The recent global financial crisis has challenged conventional wisdom, and our conception of globalisation has been called into question. This challenging and timely book revisits the relationship between globalisation, the crisis and the state from an interdisciplinary perspect…
The recent global financial crisis has challenged conventional wisdom, and our conception of globalisation has called into question. This book revisits the relationship between globalisation, the crisis and the state from an interdisciplinary perspective, with law, economics and…
As a result of the financial crisis, the weaknesses of the Eurozone, including the public debt crisis, materialized in severe depressions in certain of its country members. In this monograph, the author analyzes structural weaknesses of the Eurozone and argues that they can be t…
This volume brings together leading economists from a diverse set of backgrounds and presents their take on how economics can explain the current crisis but also how the crisis will affect economic thought.
Documents how real estate giant Tishman Speyer and its partner, BlackRock, lost billions of investor dollars in a single failed deal and explores how the events surrounding the infamous deal reflected the ongoing real estate crisis.
The international financial crisis: have the rules of finance changed?
by Demirgüç-Kunt, Aslı, Evanoff, Douglas Darrell, Kaufman, George G., Annual International Banking Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago), Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
fromWorld Scientific studies in international economics
The recent global financial crisis has caused massive upheavals worldwide. The papers in this volume analyse whether financial principles seem to have shifted in recent years, and what this may mean for international financial markets and regulation.