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Causes of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession: The Role of U.S. Monetary Policy

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  • Hayford, Marc D.
  • Malliaris, A.G.

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This paper focuses on the role U.S. monetary policy may have played in creating the U.S. housing boom/bust cycle that caused the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and consequently the “Great Recession”. Both capital inflows and looser U.S. mortgage lending terms and standards (to the extent that these are independent of monetary policy) suggest an alternative source of funds to fuel the initial increase in housing demand and also to sustain the boom. We find the argument that U.S. monetary policy solely caused the housing price boom/bust cycle less than completely convincing.

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  • Hayford, Marc D. & Malliaris, A.G., 2011. "Causes of the Financial Crisis and Great Recession: The Role of U.S. Monetary Policy," The Journal of Economic Asymmetries, Elsevier, vol. 8(2), pages 73-90.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:joecas:v:8:y:2011:i:2:p:73-90
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jeca.2011.02.007
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    Keywords

    Monetary policy; Great Recession; Financial crisis;
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    JEL classification:

    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E65 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Studies of Particular Policy Episodes

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