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Book SynopsisOffering a comprehensive guide to financial shocks and crises, this book explores their increasing occurrence in current market economies, as well as their power to wrench the macroeconomy. It discusses three critical questions: what causes financial shocks; which channels may exacerbate their impact; and what policies could help avoid them or limit their negative effect on the economy and society at large.
Drawing together contributions from top scholars in the field, this Modern Guide addresses both the causes and consequences of financial instability after the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) at both micro and macro levels. Chapters conceptualise financial crises, highlight their main channels of transmission, and explore the role of public policies, looking at how to learn from past financial crises to prevent future ones. The book further examines why financial shocks will be a permanent trait in the future, and the potential impacts of market economics continuing to expand financialisation as they have done over recent decades.
This Modern Guide will be a timely resource for economics students and scholars, particularly as it compares the impacts of the GFC and Covid-19 and explores why these are so different. It will also be an important read for policy makers seeking advice on how to manage and avoid financial crises.
Table of ContentsContents: Preface ix PART I FINANCIAL INSTABILITY AFTER THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS: TAXONOMY AND MODELS 1. The Global Financial Crisis 2 Vincenzo D’Apice and Giovanni Ferri 2. Minsky’s financial instability hypothesis 22 Maria Nikolaidi 3. Financial accelerator framework 45 Tommaso Oliviero and Giovanni W. Puopolo PART II MAIN CHANNELS OF TRANSMISSION OF THE FINANCIAL SHOCK 4. The role of the household balance sheets 66 Christophe André 5. The European network of cross-border lending 93 Ornella Ricci and Francesco Saverio Stentella Lopes 6. International banks and the transmission of financial shocks 111 Eugenio Cerutti and Haonan Zhou 7. The role of bank ownership types and business models 135 Giorgio Caselli 8. The role of market valuation in financial crises 159 Paola Bongini and Emanuele Rossi PART III THE ROLE OF PUBLIC POLICIES 9. Reflections on the shifting consensus about monetary and fiscal policies following the GFC and the COVID-19 crises 180 Alex Cukierman 10. Fiscal policy lessons since the Global Financial Crisis 199 Jérémie Cohen-Setton 11. The government as lender of last resort and temporary owner 212 Aneta Hryckiewicz 12. The sovereign-bank nexus 241 Giovanni Ferri and Valerio Pesic 13. Financial reforms 262 Alexandre Garel and Arthur Petit-Romec PART IV LEARNING FROM PAST FINANCIAL CRISES TO PREVENT FUTURE ONES 14. Looking back: a historical perspective on European crises 289 Elias Bengtsson 15. Looking ahead: early warning systems 314 E. Philip Davis and Dilruba Karim Index 349
