The US Financial System and its Crises : From the 1907 Panic to the 2007 Crash

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Looking at the precedents set by the panic of 1907 and the Great Depression in America, this book investigates the causes of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Pizzutto examines the effects of monetary policy, as well as of expanding and contracting financial cycles, in order to analyze the breakdown of the money market and capital market circuits. Not only exploring the impact of the Federal Reserve and central  Read more...

Author(s): Pizzutto, Giorgio
Series: Palgrave studies in economic history.
Publisher: Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2019

Language: English
Pages: 219
Tags: Economic history; Financial crises; Banks and banking; Economic policy; Economic History; Monetary Economics; Financial Economics

Chapter 1: Introduction --
Chapter 2: The US financial system from the National Banking Act to the crisis of 2007 --
Chapter 3: The birth of the Federal reserve and its monetary policy --
Chapter 4: Non bank financial intermediaries and the crisis of 1929 --
Chapter 5: The Great Depression --
Chapter 6: The money market after the second world war: securitization and the role of dealers --
Chapter 7: Monetary policy, spread compression and the house market --
Chapter 8: The money market, the collateral market and the crisis of 2007-08 --
Chapter 9 Conclusions.