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Book SynopsisIn this highly original piece of work, Steven D. Gjerstad and Nobel Laureate Vernon L. Smith combine data from both laboratory and real markets and use novel historical analysis on economic events going back to the Great Depression to establish the critical roles of household and bank balance sheets in economic cycles.
Trade Review'This book was a pleasure to read and is highly recommended to anyone interested in financial-economic crises. It offers many intuitive stories of potential causes of the crisis, particularly the pivotal role of the housing market with historical data from the Great Recession, the Great Depression, earlier US recessions and crises in other countries, all nicely illustrated by clear time series plots and graphs and backed up by tables. The book also offers stimulating ideas for behavioral agent-based modeling of the crisis supported by insights and data from laboratory experiments.' Cars Hommes, Journal of Economic Psychology
Table of Contents1. Economic crises, economic policy, and economic analysis; 2. Goods and service markets vs. asset markets; 3. Asset performance: housing and the Great Recession; 4. The Great Depression; 5. The postwar recessions; 6. What may have triggered or sustained the housing bubble, 1997–2006?; 7. The bubble bursts: subprime mortgages, derivatives, and banking collapse; 8. Blindsided experts; 9. What might be done?; 10. Learning from foreign economic crises: consequences, responses, and policies; 11. Summarizing: what have we learned?
