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The crash sonata in D major

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  • Szegö, Giorgio

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The current US-made financial crisis has been exacerbated by the mark-to-market rule, by pro-cyclical bank capital requirements, by fragility in the originate-to-distribute system, and by the volume of fraudulent mortgages in the USA, which have distorted profit and loss distributions and confounded all prediction models. The monetary value of such frauds in 2006–07 is estimated to reach $100–120bn. Like most crises since the 1980s, the present one is also due to regulatory mistakes, excessive leverage and concentration in real estate investments. While previous crises tended to be localised, the most recent turmoil has unfortunately had a global impact.

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  • Szegö, Giorgio, 2010. "The crash sonata in D major," Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 3(1), pages 31-45, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:rmfi00:y:2010:v:3:i:1:p:31-45
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    Keywords

    financial crisis; regulatory debacle; frauds;
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    JEL classification:

    • G2 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services
    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

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