The US Financial System and its Crises From the 1907 Panic to the 2007 Crash /

• Main Author: Pizzutto, Giorgio (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History,
• Subjects: Economic history.; Financial crises.; Banks and banking.; America-Economic conditions.; Macroeconomics.; Economic policy.; Economic History.; Financial Crises.; Banking.; North American Economics.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Economic Policy.

Looking at the precedents set by the panic of 1907 and the Great Depression in America, this book investigates the causes of the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Pizzutto examines the effects of monetary policy, as well as of expanding and contracting financial cycles, in order to analyze the breakdown o...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: The US financial system from the National Banking Act to the crisis of 2007
• Chapter 3: The birth of the Federal reserve and its monetary policy
• Chapter 4: Non bank financial intermediaries and the crisis of 1929
• Chapter 5: The Great Depression
• Chapter 6: The money market after the second world war: securitization and the role of dealers
• Chapter 7: Monetary policy, spread compression and the house market
• Chapter 8: The money market, the collateral market and the crisis of 2007-08
• Chapter 9 Conclusions.