The crisis of crowding : quant copycats, ugly models, and the new crash normal
Ludwig B. Chincarini
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2012
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| Authors: | Chincarini, Ludwig Boris |
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[New York, NY] : Bloomberg Press |
| Subject: | Finanzkrise | Financial crisis | Wirtschaftskrise | Economic crisis |
Online Resource
| Extent: | Online-Ressource ( XXVII, 478 S.) |
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| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record THE CRISIS OF CROWDING; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Cast of Characters; CHAPTER 1 Introduction; PART I: THE 1998 LTCM CRISIS; CHAPTER 2 Meriwether's Magic Money Tree; The Birth of Bond Arbitrage; The Dream Team; Early Success; CHAPTER 3 Risk Management; The General Idea; Leverage; Measuring Risk; The ρ; Economics; Copycats, Puppies, and Counterparties; LTCM's Actual Risk Management Practices; Diversification; Operations; The Raw Evidence; CHAPTER 4 The Trades; The Short U.S. Swap Trade; The European Cross-Country Swap Trade (Short UK and Long Europe); Long U.S. Mortgage Securities Hedged The Box Spread in JapanThe Italian Swap Spread; Fixed-Income Volatility Trades; The On-the-Run and Off-the-Run Trade; Short Longer-Term Equity Index Volatility; Risk Arbitrage Trades; Equity Relative-Value Trades; Emerging Market Trades; Other Trades; The Portfolio of Trades; CHAPTER 5 The Collapse; Early Summer 1998; The Salomon Shutdown; The Russian Default; The Phone Calls; The Meriwether Letter; Buffett's Hostile Alaskan Offer; The Consortium Bailout; Too Big To Fail; Why Did It Happen?; Appendix 5.1 The John Meriwether Letter; Appendix 5.2 The Warren Buffett Letter CHAPTER 6 The Fate of LTCM InvestorsCHAPTER 7 General Lessons from the Collapse; Interconnected Crowds; VaR; Leverage; Clearinghouses; Compensation; What's Size Got to Do with It?; Contingency Capital; The Fed Is a Coordinator of Last Resort; Counterparty Due Diligence; Spread the Love; Quantitative Theory Did Not Cause the LTCM Collapse; Déjà Vu; PART II: THE FINANCIAL CRISIS OF 2008; CHAPTER 8 The Quant Crisis; The Subprime Mortgage Market Collapse; What Was the Quant Crisis?; The Erratic Behavior of Quant Factors; Standard Factors; Quantitative Portfolio Factors; Causes of the Quant Crisis The Shed ShowCHAPTER 9 The Bear Stearns Collapse; A Brief History of the Bear; Shadow Banking; Window Dressing; Repo Power; The Unexpected Hibernation; The Polar Spring; CHAPTER 10 Money for Nothing and Fannie and Freddie for Free; The Basic Business; Where's the Risk?; CDO and CDO2; The Gigantic Hedge Fund; Big-Time Profits; The U.S. Housing Bubble; The Circle of Greed; Real Estate Agents and Mortgage Lender Tricks; Home Owners; Profits and Politicians; The Media and Regulators; Grade Inflation; Commercial Banks; Freddie and Fannie's Foreclosure; Why Save Freddie and Fannie? Did Anyone Know?CHAPTER 11 The Lehman Bankruptcy; The Wall Street Club; Why Was Lehman Next?; Business Exposure; A Chronology of the Gorilla's Death; Double Down in Real Estate; Mildly Seeking Capital; The Final Days; A Classic Run on the Bank; Why Let Lehman Fail?; Who Was at Fault?; Lehman Brothers; The Counterparties; The Government and Market Structure; The Legal Opinion on the Lehman Bankruptcy; Who Would Have Been Next?; The Spoils of Having Friends in High Places; CHAPTER 12 The Absurdity of Imbalance; The Long-Dated Swap Imbalance; The Repo Imbalance The 228 Wasted Resources and the Global Run on Banks Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web |
| ISBN: | 978-1-118-25002-0 ; 978-1-118-28480-3 ; 978-1-283-60420-8 ; 978-1-118-25002-0 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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