1st Edition

Preventing the Next Financial Crisis

By Victor A. Beker Copyright 2021
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

The collapse of Lehman Brothers, the oldest and fourth-largest US investment bank, in September 2008 precipitated the global financial crisis. This deepened the contraction in economic activity that had already started in December 2007 and has become known as the Great Recession. Following a sluggish and uneven period of recovery, levels of private debt have recently been on the rise again making... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Key Elements In The 2007/2009 Financial Meltdown

Chapter 3. What Has Been Done During And After The Crisis

Chapter 4. The Shadow Banking System And The Post-2007-2009 Regulatory Reform7.

Chapter 5. Systemic Risk And Run Vulnerability

Chapter 6. How To Prevent A New Financial Crisis

Chapter 7. Micro And Macro-Prudential Regulation

Chapter 8. The Reform Of The International Monetary Regime  

Chapter 9. Financial Crises And Economic Theory

Epilogue. The Response To The COVID-19 Crisis

Conclusions

Appendix. Financialization and the 2007/2009 Crisis

Biography

Victor A. Beker is Professor of Economics at the University of Belgrano and the University of Buenos Aires, both in Argentina. He has been Director of the Economics Department at the University of Belgrano and of the Economics Programme at the University of Buenos Aires. He was awarded several prizes for his works in Economics. Former Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Behaviour and Organization. Author of several Economics books and papers. He is co-author of Modern Financial Crisis, Springer, 2016, co-editor of the European Crisis, WEA Books, 2016 and editor of Alternative Approaches to Economic Theory, Routledge, 2020.

"[T]his is a very useful book, especially for the non-specialist reader, since it defines the many financial concepts and institutions that were involved in the greatest financial meltdown in modern times in a way that is easily understandable. Furthermore, it analyses the issues related to the evolution and handling of the crisis by the authorities in light of recent developments in economic theory by referring to a vast amount of economic and financial literature."

Guillermo J. Escudé, European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies