Howard Davies

The Financial Crisis

Who Is to Blame?

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Produktbeschreibung

There is still no consensus on who or what caused the financial crisis which engulfed the world, beginning in the summer of 2007. A huge number of suspects have been identified, from greedy investment bankers, through feckless borrowers, dilatory regulators and myopic central bankers to violent video games and high levels of testosterone among the denizens of trading floors. There is not even agreement on whether the crisis shows a need for more government intervention in markets, or less: some maintain that government encouragement of home ownership lay at the heart of the problem in the US, in particular. In The Financial Crisis Howard Davies charts a course through these arguments, and the evidence advanced for each of them. The reader can thereby assess the weight to be attached to each, and the likely effectiveness of the remedies under development.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Polity Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9780745651637
• ISBN-10: 0745651631
• Artikelnr.: 30364976

Autorenporträt

Sir Howard John Davies is the current Chairman of the Royal Bank of Scotland and the former Director of the London School of Economics. He also teaches courses on the regulation of financial markets and central banking at the Paris School of International Affairs at Sciences Po.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. A - The Big Picture. 1 Frankenstein's monster: The end of
Laissez-faire capitalism. 2 The rich get richer - the poor borrow. 3 The
savings glut - global imbalances. 4 Too loose for too long - US monetary
policy. B - The Trigger. 5 Minsky's Moment. 6 The sub-prime collapse - a
failure of government? C - The Failures of Regulation. 7 A capital
shortage. 8 Procyclicality. 9 The Canary in the Coal Mine: off-balance
sheet vehicles. 10 The taxi at the station: liquidity. 11 The Blind Mind
and The Elephant: US Regulation. 12 SEC- RIP? 13 Financial Weapons of Mass
Destruction: Derivatives. 14 Federal Mortgage Regulation. 15 Casino banking
: the end of the Glass-Steagall Act. 16 Too big to fail. 17 Lighting the
Touchpaper: Light touch regulation. 18 There were three people in the
marriage: UK regulation. 19 Lack of Coordination. 20 Paradise lost:
offshore centres. D - Accountants, auditors and rating agencies. 21 Shoot
the Messenger: fair value accounting. 22 Tunnel Vision: the auditors. 23
Conflicts of interest: credit rating agencies. E - Financial Firms and
Markets. 24 Breaking the chain: originate to distribute. 25 Too complex to
trade: derivatives. 26 Disaster Myopia: risk management. 27 The Roach
Motel: corporate governance. 28 Blankfein's bonus: pay and incentives. 29
The Vampire Squid. 30 A plague of locusts: hedge funds. 31 Short Selling. F
- Economics and Finance Theory. 32 The death of economics. 33 Inefficient
markets. 34 An ethics-free zone: business schools. G - Wild Cards. 35 The
watchdog didn't bark: the media. 36 Greed is bad. 37 Lara Croft: video
games. 38 Hormones. And Finally. 39 A combustible mixture.

Rezensionen

"It's hard to think of anyone better qualified than Howard Davies to evaluate the competing arguments about what caused the worst financial crisis and recession since the 1930s." -- Robert Peston, Business Editor for BBC News

"Davies offers the most comprehensive post-mortem yet of the Great Crisis -- essential reading for those who are trying to fix a still precarious post-crisis world." -- Stephen S. Roach, Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia