Kathleen C Engel, Patricia A McCoy

The Subprime Virus

Reckless Credit, Regulatory Failure, and Next Steps

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Produktbeschreibung

In this lively new book, Kathleen C. Engel and Patricia A. McCoy tell the full story behind the subprime crisis. The authors, experts in the law and economics of financial regulation and consumer lending, offer a sharply reasoned, but accessible account of the actions that produced the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780199398287
• ISBN-10: 0199398283
• Artikelnr.: 47869846

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Engel, the Associate Dean for Intellectual Life and Professor of Law at Suffolk University Law School, is a national authority on mortgage finance and regulation, subprime and predatory lending, and housing discrimination. Professor Engel's research on financial services markets and the laws that regulate them regularly catches the attention of the press and she presents her research in academic, banking, and policy forums throughout the country and around the world. Patricia A. McCoy, an expert on financial services regulation, is the Connecticut Mutual Professor of Law and Director of the Insurance Law Center at the University of Connecticut. Professor McCoy analyzes consumer protection, moral hazard, and systemic risk through the lens of law, economics, and empirical methods. Her work on the subprime market has garnered national press attention and repeated invitations to testify before Congress.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 The Emergence of the Subprime Market
Chapter 3 A Rolling Loan Gathers No Loss
Chapter 4 Prelude to the Storm
Chapter 5 Meltdown
Chapter 6 Aftermath
Chapter 7 The Clinton Years
Chapter 8 OTS and OCC Power Grab
Chapter 9 Put to the Test: OCC, OTS, and FDIC Oversight
Chapter 10 Blindspot
Chapter 11 Wall Street Skirts Regulation
Chapter 12 Consumer Protection 101
Chapter 13 Containing Contagion
Chapter 14 Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography