Resilience of US Metropolitan Areas to the 2007 Financial Crisis
Resilience of US Metropolitan Areas to the 2007 Financial Crisis

Author: Nicholas Kreston

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Published: 2013

Total Pages: 33

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This paper revisits and contributes to geographies of the 2007 financial crisis and ensuing recession by testing the statistical relationships between a set of economic indicators and growth in metropolitan areas in the United States. Two research questions organize the quantitative strategy. First, were the effects of crisis distributed evenly across the landscape and if not can we attribute these differential impacts to the economic, financial, and urban structure? Second, what types of metropolitan areas performed best and worst during the crisis? From this vantage point, we can explore the relationship between metropolitan economic structure, financialization, and distributional consequences of crisis. The results show that there is a territorial and sectoral element to crisis resistance and recovery, partially explained in terms of a jobless recovery. Size, specialization, and high density of subprime mortgages have adverse effects on metropolitan resilience, while financial concentration and income demonstrate positive effects. While the variables explain a portion of the variance for output losses during the recession, they explain little of the pre- or post-recession period growth patterns. However, the housing market variable continues to exert negative effects on growth during the recovery period, while specialization exerts positive effects. The results contribute to conversations between prior economic geographies of finance and financial crisis that employ post-Keynesian concepts, dependency theory, and relational explanations for the territorial distribution of economic downturns.

Resilience of US Metropolitan Areas to the 2008 Financial Crisis
Resilience of US Metropolitan Areas to the 2008 Financial Crisis

Author: Nicholas Kreston

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Published: 2018

Total Pages: 19

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This chapter seeks to explain why only a minority of US metropolitan areas enjoyed quicker recovery and higher levels of economic growth following the 2008 banking crisis and recession of 2007-2009. An uneven pattern of growth came into being over the course of the recession and persisted through 2013, evident in both total employment and on a sectoral basis. Using cluster analysis, we characterize the best performing group of metropolitan areas as exhibiting less economic sectorial diversity than average and lower rates of subprime mortgages as a share of all households. The worst performing areas show the highest average rates of household distress as well as bank failures. The most consistent pattern among our variables was that gradually worsening growth outcomes were associated with increasingly larger subprime mortgage and HAMP concentrations. Our findings recommend further research into the conditions of financial distress among metropolitan areas as well as into the nature of sector specialization, as both potential factor affecting growth.

Metropolitan Resilience in a Time of Economic Turmoil
Metropolitan Resilience in a Time of Economic Turmoil

Author: Michael A. Pagano

Publisher: University of Illinois Press

Published: 2013-12-15

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 0252096010

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Cities, counties, school districts and other local governments have suffered a long-lasting period of fiscal challenges since the beginning of the Great Recession. Metropolitan governments continue to adjust to the "new normal" of sharply lower property values, consumer sales, and personal income. Contributors to this volume include elected officials, academics, key people in city administrations, and other nationally recognized experts who discuss solutions to the urban problems created by the Great Recession. Metropolitan Resilience in a Time of Economic Turmoil looks at the capacity of local governments to mobilize resources efficiently and effectively, as well as the overall effects of the long-term economic downturn on quality of life. Introducing the reader to the fiscal effects of the Great Recession on cities, the book examines the initial fraying and subsequent mending of the social safety net, the opportunities for pursuing economic development strategies, the challenges of inter-jurisdictional cooperation, and the legacy costs of pension liabilities and infrastructure decay. Contributors are Phil Ashton, Raphael Bostic, Richard Feiock, Rachel A. Gordon, Rebecca Hendrick, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings, David Merriman, Richard Nathan, Michael A. Pagano, Breeze Richardson, Annette Steinacker, Nik Theodore, Rachel Weber, and Margaret Weir.

The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report

Author: Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 692

ISBN-13: 1616405414

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The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, published by the U.S. Government and the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission in early 2011, is the official government report on the United States financial collapse and the review of major financial institutions that bankrupted and failed, or would have without help from the government. The commission and the report were implemented after Congress passed an act in 2009 to review and prevent fraudulent activity. The report details, among other things, the periods before, during, and after the crisis, what led up to it, and analyses of subprime mortgage lending, credit expansion and banking policies, the collapse of companies like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and the federal bailouts of Lehman and AIG. It also discusses the aftermath of the fallout and our current state. This report should be of interest to anyone concerned about the financial situation in the U.S. and around the world.THE FINANCIAL CRISIS INQUIRY COMMISSION is an independent, bi-partisan, government-appointed panel of 10 people that was created to "examine the causes, domestic and global, of the current financial and economic crisis in the United States." It was established as part of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009. The commission consisted of private citizens with expertise in economics and finance, banking, housing, market regulation, and consumer protection. They examined and reported on "the collapse of major financial institutions that failed or would have failed if not for exceptional assistance from the government."News Dissector DANNY SCHECHTER is a journalist, blogger and filmmaker. He has been reporting on economic crises since the 1980's when he was with ABC News. His film In Debt We Trust warned of the economic meltdown in 2006. He has since written three books on the subject including Plunder: Investigating Our Economic Calamity (Cosimo Books, 2008), and The Crime Of Our Time: Why Wall Street Is Not Too Big to Jail (Disinfo Books, 2011), a companion to his latest film Plunder The Crime Of Our Time. He can be reached online at www.newsdissector.com.

Cities under Austerity
Cities under Austerity

Author: Mark Davidson

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2018-02-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 1438468172

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Examines the ways in which austerity policies are transforming US cities. Across the world’s most industrialized economies, the financial crisis of 2007 caused a contraction of state budgets and stimulated attempts to reform debt-burdened governments. In the United States, a system of fiscal federalism meant this turn towards austerity took a uniquely fragmented and geographically diverse form. Drawing on case studies of recent urban restructuring, Cities under Austerity challenges dominant understandings of austerity as a distinctly national condition and develops a conceptualization of the new US urban condition that reveals its emerging political and social fault lines. The contributors empirically detail the restructuring that is taking place across the United States, its underlying logics, its local impacts and the ongoing processes of challenge and resistance that influences how it is shaping the lives of citizens. The new American political economy, it is argued, needs to be understood as composed of a mosaic of urban experiences that both build upon a differentiated foundation and creates new divergences. As state reforms continue to interact with this diverse urban political economy of the United States, this collection provides a state-of-the-art survey on how postcrisis convergences and divergences in urban economies and urban politics have laid the foundations for the new political geography of the United States.

A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies
A Research Agenda for Regeneration Economies

Author: John R. Bryson

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2018-12-28

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1785360299

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This Research Agenda provides both a state-of-the-art review of existing research on city-regions, and expands on new research approaches. Expert contributors from across the globe explore key areas for reading city-regions, including: trade, services and people, regional differentiation, big data, global production networks, governance and policy, and regional development. The book focuses on developing a more integrated and systematic approach to reading city-regions as part of regeneration economics, identifying conceptual and methodological developments in this field of study.

Business, Economic and Financial Issues in Emerging Markets and Advanced Economies after the COVID-19 Crisis
Business, Economic and Financial Issues in Emerging Markets and Advanced Economies after the COVID-19 Crisis

Author: Giray Gozgor

Publisher: Frontiers Media SA

Published: 2023-11-22

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 2832534317

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This Research Topic is Volume 2 in the Research Topic series 'Economic and Financial Issues in the Post-COVID-19 World: Implications and Role of Public Health'. Both developed and developing economies have experienced significant risks and uncertainties due to the COVID-19 pandemic. There are still risks and uncertainty shocks of the COVID-19 in every aspect of the global economic and financial system, including investors' decisions and the financial sector's development. In this Research Topic, we aim to understand the dynamics of business, economic, and financial issues - including potential structural changes after the COVID-19 in emerging markets and advanced economies. This Research Topic’s main goal is to provide different aspects and consequences of economic and financial issues in emerging markets and advanced economies after the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, we welcome interdisciplinary, empirical, and theoretical papers (panel data studies, survey studies, and time-series analyses) focusing on the business, economic, and financial issues after the COVID-19 crisis. We also welcome policy briefs of people working at central banks, governments, and other public institutions, focusing on these issues.

Economic Resilience in Regions and Organisations
Economic Resilience in Regions and Organisations

Author: Rüdiger Wink

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-09-06

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 3658330791

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Leading researchers on economic resilience from economic geography, economic history and organizational studies discuss recent approaches to better understand the impact of structures, processes, agency, governance and multilevel settings on economic resilience.