Narratives of the Global Financial Crisis -- Multi-Level Complexity: The 21st Century Financial System -- US Policy Responses to the Crisis -- Knowledge Asymmetries and the Idea of Knowledge-Based Regulation -- Knowledge Capture in Financial Regulation: A Theoretic Framework.

Uncertainty about the riskiness of new financial products was an important factor behind the U.S. credit crisis. We show that a boom-bust cycle in debt, asset prices and consumption characterizes the equilibrium dynamics of a model with a collateral constraint in which agents learn ""by...