Engineering the Financial Crisis: Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation

by Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus

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The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulation, and expansionary monetary policy. Specialists in banking, however, tell a story with less emotional resonance but a better correspondence to the evidence: the crisis was sparked by the international regulatory accords on bank capital levels, the Basel Accords.

In one of the first studies critically...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0812243579

ISBN13:9780812243574

Release Date:October 2011

Publisher:University of Pennsylvania Press

Length:224 Pages

Weight:0.55 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"

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Business Business & Investing Law

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