The Anatomy of a Multiple Crisis

The Anatomy of a Multiple Crisis

Author: Guillermo Perry

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13:

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The Argentine crisis has been variously blamed on fiscal imbalances, real overvaluation, and self-fulfilling investor pessimism triggering a capital flow reversal. The authors provide an encompassing assessment of the role of these and other ingredients in the recent macroeconomic collapse. They show that in the final years of convertibility, Argentina was not hit harder than other emerging markets in Latin America and elsewhere by global terms-of-trade and financial disturbances. So the crisis reflects primarily the high vulnerability to disturbances built into Argentina's policy framework. Three key sources of vulnerability are examined: the hard peg adopted against optimal currency area considerations in a context of wage and price inflexibility; the fragile fiscal position resulting from an expansionary stance in the boom; and the pervasive mismatches in the portfolios of banks' borrowers. While there were important vulnerabilities in each of these areas, neither of them was higher than those affecting other countries in the region, and thus there is not one obvious suspect. But the three reinforced each other in such a perverse way that taken jointly they led to a much larger vulnerability to adverse external shocks than in any other country in the region. Underlying these vulnerabilities was a deep structural problem of the Argentine economy that led to harsh policy dilemmas before and after the crisis erupted. On the one hand, the Argentine trade structure made a peg to the dollar highly inconvenient from the point of view of the real economy. On the other hand, the strong preference of Argentinians for the dollar as a store of value-after the hyperinflation and confiscation experiences of the 1980s-had led to a highly dollarized economy in which a hard peg or even full dollarization seemed reasonable alternatives from a financial point of view.


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.


Financial Crises Explanations, Types, and Implications

Financial Crises Explanations, Types, and Implications

Author: Mr.Stijn Claessens

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2013-01-30

Total Pages: 66

ISBN-13: 1475561008

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This paper reviews the literature on financial crises focusing on three specific aspects. First, what are the main factors explaining financial crises? Since many theories on the sources of financial crises highlight the importance of sharp fluctuations in asset and credit markets, the paper briefly reviews theoretical and empirical studies on developments in these markets around financial crises. Second, what are the major types of financial crises? The paper focuses on the main theoretical and empirical explanations of four types of financial crises—currency crises, sudden stops, debt crises, and banking crises—and presents a survey of the literature that attempts to identify these episodes. Third, what are the real and financial sector implications of crises? The paper briefly reviews the short- and medium-run implications of crises for the real economy and financial sector. It concludes with a summary of the main lessons from the literature and future research directions.


Anatomy of Global Stock Market Crashes

Anatomy of Global Stock Market Crashes

Author: Gagari Chakrabarti

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-01-05

Total Pages: 69

ISBN-13: 8132204638

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This work is an exploration of the global market dynamics, their intrinsic natures, common trends and dynamic interlinkages during the stock market crises over the last twelve years. The study isolates different phases of crisis and differentiates between any crisis that remains confined to the region and those that take up a global dimension. The latent structure of the global stock market, the inter-regional and intra-regional stock market dynamics around the crises are analyzed to get a complete picture of the structure of the global stock market. The study further probing into the inherent nature of the global stock market in generating crisis finds the global market to be chaotic thus making the system intrinsically unstable or at best to follow knife-edge stability. The findings have significant bearing at theoretical level and on policy decisions.


Financial Crises

Financial Crises

Author: Mr.Stijn Claessens

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2014-02-19

Total Pages: 754

ISBN-13: 1484355261

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The lingering effects of the economic crisis are still visible—this shows a clear need to improve our understanding of financial crises. This book surveys a wide range of crises, including banking, balance of payments, and sovereign debt crises. It begins with an overview of the various types of crises and introduces a comprehensive database of crises. Broad lessons on crisis prevention and management, as well as the short-term economic effects of crises, recessions, and recoveries, are discussed.


The Concussion Crisis

The Concussion Crisis

Author: Linda Carroll

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-02-21

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 1451627459

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Discusses the current epidemic of sports-related concussions, including true-life stories of victims and the ongoing research to unravel the mysteries of concussions, as well as the crusade to prevent these types of injuries.


Bhopal

Bhopal

Author: Paul Shrivastava

Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited

Published: 1992-11-28

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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Bhopal native Shrivastava (management, Bucknell U., Pennsylvania) examines the general and specific causes for the 1984 toxic gas leak from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal that killed 3,000 people, and the impact on the injured, society, and industrial and regulatory organizations. Updated from the 1987 first edition to describe the lingering effects. Distributed by Taylor and Francis. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Global Waves of Debt

Global Waves of Debt

Author: M. Ayhan Kose

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2021-03-03

Total Pages: 403

ISBN-13: 1464815453

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The global economy has experienced four waves of rapid debt accumulation over the past 50 years. The first three debt waves ended with financial crises in many emerging market and developing economies. During the current wave, which started in 2010, the increase in debt in these economies has already been larger, faster, and broader-based than in the previous three waves. Current low interest rates mitigate some of the risks associated with high debt. However, emerging market and developing economies are also confronted by weak growth prospects, mounting vulnerabilities, and elevated global risks. A menu of policy options is available to reduce the likelihood that the current debt wave will end in crisis and, if crises do take place, will alleviate their impact.


Brookings Trade Forum: 2002

Brookings Trade Forum: 2002

Author: Susan M. Collins

Publisher: Brookings Institution Press

Published: 2010-12-01

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780815706823

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Currency crises are extremely perplexing problems, initially erupting in a country's financial markets and spreading throughout a country's economy and beyond—often with devastating consequences for real economic activity. Experts on the two most recent crises—in Argentina and Turkey—together with others who have studied currency crises more broadly, examine why such crises continue to erupt and how to mitigate their impact, possibly preventing additional crises in the future. Argentina's Avoidable Crisis: Bad Luck, Bad Economics, Bad Politics, Bad Advice Andrew Powell, Universidad Torcuato di Tella Hard Money's Soft Underbelly: Understanding the Argentine Crisis Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard University Andrés Velasco, Harvard University Banking Sector Fragility and Turkey's 2000–01 Financial Crisis Fatih Özatay, Merkez Bankasi Güven Sak, Merkez Bankasi Panel: Lessons of Recent Currency Crises Morris Goldstein, Institute for International Economics Currency Crises: A Practitioner's View Jose Luis Machinea, Inter-American Development Bank Does East Asia Need a New Development Paradigm? Yung Chul Park, Korea University Currency crises are extremely perplexing problems, initially erupting in a country's financial markets and spreading throughout a country's economy and beyond—often with devastating consequences for real economic activity. Experts on the two most recent crises—in Argentina and Turkey—together with others who have studied currency crises more broadly, examine why such crises continue to erupt and how to mitigate their impact, possibly preventing additional crises in the future. Argentina's Avoidable Crisis: Bad Luck, Bad Economics, Bad Politics, Bad Advice Andrew Powell, Universidad Torcuato di Tella Hard Money's Soft Underbelly: Understanding the Argentine Crisis Ricardo Hausmann, Harvard University Andrés Velasco, Harvard University Banking Sector Fragility and Turkey's 2000–01 Financial Crisis Fatih Özatay, Merkez Bankasi Güven Sak, Merkez Bankasi Panel: Lessons of Recent Currency Crises Morris Goldstein, Institute for International Economics Currency Crises: A Practitioner's View Jose Luis Machinea, Inter-American Development Bank Does East Asia Need a New Development Paradigm? Yung Chul Park, Korea University