Thursday, January 26, 2012

New NBER Working Paper: Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader's Guide

Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader's Guide

Gary B. Gorton and Andrew Metrick

NBER Working Paper No. 17778

January 2012


ABSTRACT

All economists should be conversant with “what happened?” during the financial crisis of 2007-2009. We select and summarize 16 documents, including academic papers and reports from regulatory and international agencies. This reading list covers the key facts and mechanisms in the build-up of risk, the panics in short-term-debt markets, the policy reactions, and the real effects of the financial crisis.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w17778.pdf

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