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The current economic and financial crisis : a gender perspective

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009

Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and other development goals in the past. In the midst of the current global crisisoften referred to as the Great Recessionʺthere is grave concern that progress made in poverty...

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The meltdown of the global economy : a Keynes-Minsky episode?

Sen, Sunanda - 2010

with the involvement of banks in the securities market under the universal banking model. As for the institutional …

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Too big to fail in financial crisis : motives, countermeasures, and prospects

Shull, Bernard - 2010

Regulatory forbearance and government financial support for the largest U.S. financial companies during the crisis of 2007–09 highlighted a “too big to fail” problem that has existed for decades. As in the past, effects on competition and moral hazard were seen as outweighed by the threat...

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The great crisis and the American response

Galbraith, James K. - 2010

Senior Scholar James K. Galbraith argues the fundamental illusion of viewing the US economy through the free-market prism of deregulation, privatization, and a benevolent government operating mainly through monetary stabilization - the prevailing view among economists over the past three...

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The global crisis and the future of the dollar : toward Bretton Woods III?

Bibow, Jörg - 2010

This paper investigates the United States dollar’s role as the international currency of choice as a key contributing factor in critical global developments that led to the crisis of 2007–09, and considers the future role of the dollar as the global economy emerges from that crisis. It is...

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The global financial crisis and the shift to shadow banking

Nersisyan, Yeva - 2010

While most economists agree that the world is facing the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, there is little agreement as to what caused it. Some have argued that the financial instability we are witnessing is due to irrational exuberance of market participants, fraud, greed, too...

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Lessons we should have learned from the global financial crisis but didn't

Wray, L. Randall - 2011

In this paper, I first quickly recount the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis (GFC). Of course, the triggering event was the unfolding of the subprime crisis; however, I argue that the financial system was already so fragile that just about anything could have caused the...

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"A Minskyan Road to Financial Reform"

Wray, L. Randall - Levy Economics Institute - 2011

system is to promote the "capital development" of the economy. By this he did not simply mean that banks should finance …

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"The Repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act and the Federal Reserve's Extraordinary Intervention during the Global Financial Crisis"

Nersisyan, Yeva - Levy Economics Institute - 2015

to commercial banks. During the crisis, however, the Federal Reserve created a number of facilities to support brokers … banks to nonbank financial institutions. In a specialized financial system, which the GSA had helped create, the use of the … lender-of-last-resort safety net could be more comfortably limited to commercial banks. However, the elimination of GSA …

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"Quality of Match for Statistical Matches Using the Consumer Expenditure Survey 2011 and Annual Social Economic Supplement 2011"

Rios-Avila, Fernando - Levy Economics Institute - 2015

This paper describes the quality of the statistical match between the Current Population Survey (CPS) March 2011 supplement and the Consumer Expenditure Survey (CEX) 2011, which are used for the integrated inequality assessment model for the United States. In the first part of this paper, the...

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