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Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader's Guide

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  • Gary B. Gorton
  • Andrew Metrick

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All economists should be conversant with "what happened?" during the financial crisis of 2007-2009. We select and summarize 16 documents, including academic papers and reports from regulatory and international agencies. This reading list covers the key facts and mechanisms in the build-up of risk, the panics in short-term-debt markets, the policy reactions, and the real effects of the financial crisis.

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  • Gary B. Gorton & Andrew Metrick, 2012. "Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis: A One-Weekend-Reader's Guide," NBER Working Papers 17778, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
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    • A1 - General Economics and Teaching - - General Economics
    • D0 - Microeconomics - - General
    • E0 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General
    • G0 - Financial Economics - - General

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