Moral hazard and the financial crisis of 2007-9: An Explanation for why the subprime mortgage defaults and the housing market collapse produced a financial crisis that was more severe than any previous crashes (with exception of the Great Depression of 1929)
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Keywords
moral hazard; financial crisis of 2007-9; burst of the housing bubble; subprime mortgages crisis; shadow-banking crisis;
All these keywords.JEL classification:
- L0 - Industrial Organization - - General
- M0 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - General
- M1 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-PKE-2009-10-10 (Post Keynesian Economics)
- NEP-URE-2009-10-10 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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