Misunderstanding financial crises : why we don't see them coming /
Gary B. Gorton.
- New York : Oxford University Press, c2012.
- xiv, 278 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Creating the quiet period -- Financial crises -- Liquidity and secrets -- Credit booms and manias -- The timing of crises -- Economic theory without history -- Debt during crises -- The quiet period and its end -- Moral hazard and too-big-to-fail -- Bank capital -- Fat cats, crisis costs, and the paradox of financial crises -- The panic of 2007-2008 -- The theory and practice of seeing.
9780199922901 (cloth : alk. paper)
2012008750
Financial crises--United States. Monetary policy--United States. Crisis financiera--Estados Unidos Politica monetaria--Estados Unidos
United States--Economic policy. Estados Unidos --Política económica