| Title : | Financial crisis - causes, context and consequences | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Adrian Buckley, Author | | Edition statement: | 1st Edition | | Publisher: | Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall | | Publication Date: | 2011 | | Pagination: | xiv, 342 p. | | Layout: | ill (col) | | Size: | 24 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-273-73511-3 | | Class number: | 330.90511 | | Abstract: | A fascinating close-up analysis of the causes of the 2007/8 financial crisis and its consequences - Financial Crisis places the world of finance under the microscope, bringing together evidence of the involvement of banks, governments and regulators. It questions some of its most dangerous and dubious practices, witnessed while searching for the naswer to the question: What really caused the financial crisis? | | Contents note: | Preface; Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 An overview of the financial crisis 2007/8; Chapter 2 Governments and the financial crisis; Chapter 3 Personal finance, housing and the financial crisis; Chapter 4 The business of banking; Chapter 5 Subprime lenders and borrowers; Chapter 6 Credit default swaps and toxic assets; Chapter 7 Bank lending and control systems; Chapter 8 Regulation; Chapter 9 The business cycle, booms, busts, bubbles, and frauds; Chapter 10 Finance theories; Chapter 11 Other academic theories; Chapter 12 Bank failures in the USA - Case 12.1 Bear Stearns, Case 12.2 Lehman Brothers, 12.3 American International Group (AIG), 12.4 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; Chapter 13 Bank failures in the UK - Case 13.1 Northern Rock, Case 13.2 HBOS, Case 13.3 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS); Bank failures in Europe - Case 14.1 Fortis, Case 14.2 UBS, Case 14.3 Icelandic Banks, Case 14.4 Irish banks; Chapter 15 The Great Depression; Chapter 16 Government responses to the crisis; Chapter 17 Lessons and major issues; Afterword; Notes; Glossary; Index. |
Financial crisis - causes, context and consequences [printed text] / Adrian Buckley, Author . - 1st Edition . - Harlow : Financial Times Prentice Hall, 2011 . - xiv, 342 p. : ill (col) ; 24 cm. ISBN : 978-0-273-73511-3 | Class number: | 330.90511 | | Abstract: | A fascinating close-up analysis of the causes of the 2007/8 financial crisis and its consequences - Financial Crisis places the world of finance under the microscope, bringing together evidence of the involvement of banks, governments and regulators. It questions some of its most dangerous and dubious practices, witnessed while searching for the naswer to the question: What really caused the financial crisis? | | Contents note: | Preface; Acknowledgements
Chapter 1 An overview of the financial crisis 2007/8; Chapter 2 Governments and the financial crisis; Chapter 3 Personal finance, housing and the financial crisis; Chapter 4 The business of banking; Chapter 5 Subprime lenders and borrowers; Chapter 6 Credit default swaps and toxic assets; Chapter 7 Bank lending and control systems; Chapter 8 Regulation; Chapter 9 The business cycle, booms, busts, bubbles, and frauds; Chapter 10 Finance theories; Chapter 11 Other academic theories; Chapter 12 Bank failures in the USA - Case 12.1 Bear Stearns, Case 12.2 Lehman Brothers, 12.3 American International Group (AIG), 12.4 Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac; Chapter 13 Bank failures in the UK - Case 13.1 Northern Rock, Case 13.2 HBOS, Case 13.3 Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS); Bank failures in Europe - Case 14.1 Fortis, Case 14.2 UBS, Case 14.3 Icelandic Banks, Case 14.4 Irish banks; Chapter 15 The Great Depression; Chapter 16 Government responses to the crisis; Chapter 17 Lessons and major issues; Afterword; Notes; Glossary; Index. |
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