Understanding Financial Crises

by Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale

Book Overview

What causes a financial crisis? Can financial crises be anticipated or even avoided? What can be done to lessen their impact? Should governments and international institutions intervene? Or should financial crises be left to run their course? In the aftermath of the recent Asian financial crisis, many blamed international institutions, corruption, governments, and flawed macro and microeconomic policies not only for causing the crisis but also unnecessarily...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199251428
• ISBN13: 9780199251421
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"