Leverage? What leverage? a deep dive into the U.S. flow of funds in search of clues to the global crisis

This paper questions the view that leverage should have forewarned us of the global financial crisis of 2007-09, pointing to several gearing indicators that were neither useful portents of the onset of the crisis nor of its ferocity. Instead it shows, first, that the use of ill-suited collateral in...

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Autor principal: Bhatia, A. (-)
Autor Corporativo: Fondo Monetario Internacional. Strategy, Policy, and Review Department (-)
Otros Autores: Bayoumi, Tamim A.
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund 2012.
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
IMF working paper ; WP/12/162.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b33606791*spi
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Sumario:This paper questions the view that leverage should have forewarned us of the global financial crisis of 2007-09, pointing to several gearing indicators that were neither useful portents of the onset of the crisis nor of its ferocity. Instead it shows, first, that the use of ill-suited collateral in the secured funding operations of U.S.-based investment banks was the fatal link between the collapse of structured finance and the global malfunction of funding markets that turbocharged the downdraft; and, second, that this insight (and others) can be decrypted from the Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States.
Notas:"Strategy, Policy, and Review Department."
"June 2012."
Descripción Física:30 p. : il. col
Formato:Forma de acceso: World Wide Web.
Bibliografía:Incluye referencias bibliográficas.
ISBN:9781475545128