Credit chains, credit bubbles, and financial fragility: Explaining the U.S. financial crisis of 2007-09

This dissertation addresses the cause of the U.S. financial crisis of 2007-09. Most existing literature has examined causality from the perspective of market failures in isolated segments of the financial system. In contrast, this dissertation examines the ways in which interactions between various...

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Main Author: Bernardin, Thomas L
Language:ENG
Published: ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst 2013
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3603054