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Financial Instability

Toolkit for Interpreting Boom and Bust Cycles

Palgrave Macmillan

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 1-5
  3. Understanding the Financial Crises

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 7-7
    2. Theories of Financial Crises

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 9-16
    3. Macro Models of Financial Crises

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 17-24
    4. Micro Models of Financial Crises

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 25-28
    5. Transmission Channels of Financial Crises

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 29-33
    6. The International Monetary Fund

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 34-35
  4. Liberalization, Crises and Mega-Corporate Bankruptcies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 37-37
    2. The Great Depression of the 1930s

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 39-44
    3. From Bretton Woods to Financial Globalization

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 45-47
    4. Recent Financial Crises

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 48-109
    5. The Mega-Bankruptcies of the Early 2000s

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 110-117
  5. The Great Crisis of 2007–09

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 119-119
    2. The Great Crisis of 2007–09

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 121-169
    3. Crisis in Academic Economics

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 170-183
    4. Conclusions and Perspectives

      • Vincenzo D’Apice, Giovanni Ferri
      Pages 184-200
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 201-221

About this book

This book explains what is behind the wave of increasingly frequent and severe financial crises since the 1980s. It links theoretical and policy misconceptions to explain, in plain words, why and how global finance needs fixing. Otherwise, the world may not withstand the next, even bigger, financial crisis.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Italian Banking Association, Italy

    Vincenzo D’Apice

  • University of Bari, Italy

    Giovanni Ferri

About the authors

VINCENZO D'APICE is Economist in the Research Department of the Italian Banking Association. His research interests include international finance, banking and regulation. He is currently undertaking economic research at the Instituto Einaudi, Italy.

GIOVANNI FERRI is Chair of the Department of Economics, University of Bari, Italy. He previously worked for the World Bank and the Banca d'Italia. He has published extensively on money and credit economics.

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