A global history of the financial crash of 2007-10 / Johan A. Lybeck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lybeck, Johan A., 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

Financial crises.

Physical Description:

xx, 392 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2011]

Summary:

A detailed yet non-technical analysis of the recent financial crisis.

Contents:

Introduction

Financial crises in the USA and Europe, but not in Asia

Appendix 2.1. Chronology of events: January 2007-June 2011

Could today's financial crisis have been foreseen?

The US housing market and the subprime crisis

Securitization and derivatives spread the crisis around the world

Appendix 5.1 Inherent conflicts of interest in subprime securitization; Appendix 5.2 Write-downs in banks and insurance companies, 2007-2009

Liquidity risk aspects of the crisis and a comparison with 1907 and 1929

Appendix 6.1 The liquidity-risk framework proposed by theFSA and the BIS

Credit risk aspects of the crisis, rating and solvency

Appendix 7.1 Government support activities for banks' capital ratios, 2007-2010

Appendix 7.2 The proposed new capital requirements under Basel III

Worldwide changes in regulation and supervision as a result of the crisis

Appendix 9.1. list of regulatory authorities in the United States

Appendix 9.2. Overview of bank taxes in different countries

Outstanding issues.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 372-387) and index.

ISBN:

9781107648883

1107648882

1107011493

9781107011496

OCLC:

738337867