Financial assets, debt, and liquidity crises : a Keynesian approach / Matthieu Charpe [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Charpe, Matthieu, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Macroeconomics.

Business cycles.

Financial crises.

Keynesian economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxiv, 432 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The macroeconomic development of most major industrial economies is characterised by boom-bust cycles. Normally such boom-bust cycles are driven by specific sectors of the economy. In the financial meltdown of the years 2007-9 it was the credit sector and the real-estate sector that were the main driving forces. This book takes on the challenge of interpreting and modelling this meltdown. In doing so it revives the traditional Keynesian approach to the financial-real economy interaction and the business cycle, extending it in several important ways. In particular, it adopts the Keynesian view of a hierarchy of markets and introduces a detailed financial sector into the traditional Keynesian framework. The approach of the book goes beyond the currently dominant paradigm based on the representative agent, market clearing and rational economic agents. Instead it proposes an economy populated with heterogeneous, rationally bounded agents attempting to cope with disequilibria in various markets.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: List of figures; List of tables; Notation; Preface; 1. Financial crises and the macroeconomy; Part I. The Nonlinear Dynamics of Credit and Debt Default: 2. Currency crises, credit crunches and large output loss; 3. Mortgage loans, debt default and the emergence of banking crises; 4. Debt deflation and the descent into economic depression; Part II. Theoretical Foundations for Structural Macroeconometric Model Building: 5. Keynesian macroeconometric model building: a point of departure; 6. Intensive form and steady state calculations; 7. Partial feedback structures and stability issues; Part III. Debt Crises: Firms, Banks and the Housing Markets: 8. Debt deflation: from low- to high-order macrosystems; 9. Debt default, bankruptcy of firms, and banks' performances; 10. Japan's institutional configuration and its financial crisis; 11. Housing investment cycles, workers' debt and debt default; Bibliography.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 14 Jan 2016).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-139-09762-8

1-139-88730-0

1-283-34188-3

1-139-10346-6

9786613341884

1-139-10100-5

1-139-10166-8

1-139-09897-7

0-511-79254-9

1-139-09966-3

OCLC:

769342086