A PowerPoint presentation, Mortgage Crisis led to Credit and Illiquidity Crisis, delineates the key factors which the author believes enabled the contagious-but-confinable risks of the mortgage crisis to spread to the entire financial market. The prime cause was the weakened health of leveraged...

This article takes a look at the well known economical and financial crisis, which affected all the countries in the world. When comes to Europe, the most affected countries were the Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The economy of these countries shrank enough, so that they cope...

Collapsing credit markets have been blamed for the depth and persistence of the Great Depression in the United States. Could similar mechanisms have played a role in ending the East Asian economic miracle - and in creating fragility in global financial markets? After a brief account of the...

We study the land and stock markets in Japan circa 1990. While the Nikkei stock average in the late 1980s and its -48% crash in 1990 is generally recognized as a financial market bubble, a bigger bubble and crash was in the golf course membership index market. The crash in the Nikkei which...