Financial instability: toolkit for interpreting boom and bust cycles

This book explains what is behind the wave of increasingly frequent and severe financial crises since the 1980s. It links theoretical and policy misconceptions to explain, in plain words, why and how global finance needs fixing. Otherwise, the world may not withstand the next, even bigger, financial crisis. INDICE: Foreword; F.Allen Introduction PART I: UNDERSTANDING FINANCIAL CRISES Theories of Financial Crises Macro Models of Financial Crises Micro Modelsof Financial Crises Transmission Channels of Financial Crises International Monetary Fund PART II: LIBERALIZATION, CRISES AND MEGA CORPORATE BANKRUPTCIES The Great Depression From Bretton Woods to Financial Globalization Recent Financial Crises Mega-Bankruptcies of the Early 2000s PART III: THE GREAT CRISIS OF2007-2009 The Great Crisis of 2007-2009 Crisis in Academic Economics Conclusions and Perspectives

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24811-3
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 248
• Fecha Publicación: 07/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés