After the Great Recession

After the Great Recession

Author: Barry Z. Cynamon

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-11-30

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 1139560719

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The severity of the Great Recession and the subsequent stagnation caught many economists by surprise. But a group of Keynesian scholars warned for some years that strong forces were leading the US toward a deep, persistent downturn. This book collects essays about these events from prominent macroeconomists who developed a perspective that predicted the broad outline and many specific aspects of the crisis. From this point of view, the recovery of employment and revival of strong growth requires more than short-term monetary easing and temporary fiscal stimulus. Economists and policy makers need to explore how the process of demand formation failed after 2007 and where demand will come from going forward. Successive chapters address the sources and dynamics of demand, the distribution and growth of wages, the structure of finance and challenges from globalization, and inform recommendations for monetary and fiscal policies to achieve a more efficient and equitable society.


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.


Collapse and Revival

Collapse and Revival

Author: Mr.Ayhan Kose

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2015-12-16

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1513570021

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As the debates about the recent global recession and the subsequent recovery have clearly shown, our understanding of these questions has been very limited. This comprehensive text puts the latest global recession and ongoing recovery in perspective. With the support of a companion website and DVD, we have created several multimedia tools to help understand the basics.


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.


Recession Chronicles

Recession Chronicles

Author: William L Pittenger

Publisher: Bill Pittenger Real Estate Economics, LLC

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 9780578150390

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What started as overbuilding in a few American cities turned into the broadest, deepest and most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression of the 1930s. When the subprime lending market imploded in the latter months of 2007, the disastrous effects were felt in housing, then employment, then commercial real estate, then banking, then throughout the broader economy. The Great Recession, as it has come to be known, was unusual. Most recessions are triggered by monetary policy gone awry or by some sort of economic shock which eventually infects the housing sector. Not so this time. The recession began in housing and quickly expanded into other sectors and eventually to the broader economy in both the U.S. and abroad. Author and real estate economist, William "Bill" Pittenger tracked The Great Recession at virtually every step of the way. As he did, he wrote about what he was witnessing personally and through his comprehensive economic research and analysis. He recorded it all contemporaneously. That research is presented in a compilation of 150 contemporaneous essays written between 2007 and 2013. His essays record the prelude to recession in 2007; the depths of the recession in 2008 and 2009 and the agonizingly slow recovery we are still experiencing today - some five years after the recession technically ended.


World Economic Outlook, April 2009

World Economic Outlook, April 2009

Author: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 2009-04-22

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 1589068068

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This edition of the World Economic Outlook explores how a dramatic escalation of the financial crisis in September 2008 provoked an unprecedented contraction of activity and trade, despite active policy responses. It presents economic projections for 2009 and 2010, and also looks beyond the current crisis, considering factors that will shape the landscape of the global economy over the medium term, as businesses and households seek to repair the damage. The analysis also outlines the difficult policy challenges presented by the overwhelming imperative to take all steps necessary to restore financial stability and revive the global economy, and the longer-run need for national actions to be mutually supporting. The first of two analytical chapters, "What Kind of Economic Recovery?" explores the shape of the eventual recovery. The second, "The Transmission of Financial Stress from Advanced to Emerging and Developing Economies," focuses on the role of external financial linkages and financial stress in transmitting economic shocks.


The First Great Recession of the 21st Century

The First Great Recession of the 21st Century

Author: Óscar Dejuán

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1849807469

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The 2008-10 financial crisis and the global recession it created is a complex phenomenon that warrants detailed examination. The various essays in the book utilise several alternative paradigms to provide a plausible explanation and a credible cure. This book provides this important analysis in great detail and from different theoretical perspectives, presenting a clearer understanding of what went wrong and expounding misinterpretations of current theories and practices. Thirteen insightful chapters by eminent scholars investigate the background of the crisis and draw lessons for economic theory and policy. They largely illustrate that the roots of the recession lie in the financial sector which, over the past few decades, has expanded considerably in terms of both size and complexity. They show that financial innovation has decoupled the real and financial sectors - not always to the benefit of economic stability - and argue that financial markets should be regulated more astutely in order to reinforce transparency and accountability. The book concludes that economics as a science should give proper weight to financial variables and integrate them into its models.


A Decade after the Global Recession

A Decade after the Global Recession

Author: M. Ayhan Kose

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2021-03-19

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 1464815283

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This year marks the tenth anniversary of the 2009 global recession. Most emerging market and developing economies weathered the global recession relatively well, in part by using the sizable fiscal and monetary policy ammunition accumulated during prior years of strong growth. However, their growth prospects have weakened since then, and many now have less policy space. This study provides the first comprehensive stocktaking of the past decade from the perspective of emerging market and developing economies. Many of these economies have now become more vulnerable to economic shocks. The study discusses lessons from the global recession and policy options for these economies to strengthen growth and prepare for the possibility of another global downturn.