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UNINA9910464159903321 |
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Autore |
Friedman Jeffrey <1959-> |
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Titolo |
Engineering the financial crisis [[electronic resource] ] : systemic risk and the failure of regulation / / Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus |
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Philadelphia, : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2011 |
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1-283-89799-7 |
0-8122-0507-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 212 pages) : illustrations |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 |
Financial crises - United States - History - 21st century |
Bank capital - Law and legislation |
Banks and banking - Risk management |
Economics - Political aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-200) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Bonuses, Irrationality, and Too-Bigness: The Conventional Wisdom About the Financial Crisis and Its Theoretical Implications -- Capital Adequacy Regulations and the Financial Crisis: Bankers' and Regulators' Errors -- The Interaction of Regulations and the Great Recession: Fetishizing Market Prices -- Capitalism and Regulation: Ignorance, Heterogeneity, and Systemic Risk -- Appendix I. Scholarship About the Corporate-Compensation Hypothesis -- Appendix II. The Basel Rules off the Balance Sheet. |
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The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulation, and expansionary monetary policy. Specialists in banking, however, tell a story with less emotional resonance but a better correspondence to the evidence: the crisis was sparked by the international regulatory accords on bank capital levels, the Basel Accords.In one of the first studies critically to examine the Basel Accords, Engineering the Financial Crisis reveals the crucial role that bank capital requirements and other government regulations played in |
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the recent financial crisis. Jeffrey Friedman and Wladimir Kraus argue that by encouraging banks to invest in highly rated mortgage-backed bonds, the Basel Accords created an overconcentration of risk in the banking industry. In addition, accounting regulations required banks to reduce lending if the temporary market value of these bonds declined, as they did in 2007 and 2008 during the panic over subprime mortgage defaults.The book begins by assessing leading theories about the crisis-deregulation, bank compensation practices, excessive leverage, "too big to fail," and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac-and, through careful evidentiary scrutiny, debunks much of the conventional wisdom about what went wrong. It then discusses the Basel Accords and how they contributed to systemic risk. Finally, it presents an analysis of social-science expertise and the fallibility of economists and regulators. Engagingly written, theoretically inventive, yet empirically grounded, Engineering the Financial Crisis is a timely examination of the unintended-and sometimes disastrous-effects of regulation on complex economies. |
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UNINA9911133986003321 |
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Titolo |
"Farewell, my nation" : American Indians and the United States in the nineteenth century / / Philip Weeks |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Chichester, West Sussex, : Wiley Blackwell, 2016 |
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1-118-97680-0 |
1-118-97679-7 |
9781118976791 |
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Edizione |
[3rd ed] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (277 pages) : illustrations (some color), map |
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Collana |
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The American history series |
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Indians of North America -- Government relations |
Indians of North America -- History -- 19th century |
Indian Removal, 1813-1903 |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Previous ed.: 2001 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 326-337) and index |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The fully updated third edition of "Farewell, My Nation" considers the complex and often tragic relationships between American Indians, white Americans, and the U.S. government during the nineteenth century, as the government tried to find ways to deal with social and political questions about how to treat America's indigenous population. * Updated to include new scholarship that has appeared since the publication of the second edition as well as additional primary source material * Examines the cultural and material impact of Western expansion on the indigenous peoples of the United States, guiding the reader through the significant changes in Indian-U.S. policy over the course of the nineteenth century * Outlines the efficacy and outcomes of the three principal policies toward American Indians undertaken in varying degrees by the U.S. government - Separation, Concentration, and Americanization - and interrogates their repercussions * Provides detailed descriptions, chronology and analysis of the Plains Wars supported by supplementary maps and illustrations |
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