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Gale
Franklin Allen, Douglas Gale
ISBN: 9781843764243
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
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Offers an economic history of financial crises and classic works on the theory of banking crises. This book covers topics with sections on currency crises and financial contagion. It is useful to undergraduate students of money, banking, macroeconomics and financial crises alike.
This important volume presents key contributions to the study of financial crises from many different areas of economics. The book offers an economic history of financial crises, empirical studies of crises in the modern era and classic works on the theory of banking crises. It also covers specialized topics, with sections on currency crises and financial contagion. Undergraduate students of money, banking, macroeconomics and financial crises alike will find this collection to be an invaluable overview of a critical area of study.
| ISBN | 1843764245 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9781843764243 (What's this?) | | Pages | 608 | | Publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd | | Volumes | 001 | | Imprint | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd | | Published in | Cheltenham | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics Series | | Publication date | 29 Feb 2008 | | Height (mm) | 244 | | Library of Congress | HB3722 | | Width (mm) | 169 | | DEWEY | 338.542 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate |
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| | | Introduction by Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale | | | | Pt. I | | Crises in Historical Perspective | | | | 1 | | Is the Crisis Problem Growing More Severe? by Michael Bordo and Barry Eichengreen and Daniela Klingebiel and Maria Soledad Martinez-Peria | | 3 | | 2 | | Banking Panics and Business Cycles by Gary Gorton | | 33 | | 3 | | Fundamentals, Panics, and Bank Distress During the Depression by Charles W. Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason | | 64 | | Pt. II | | Empirical Studies of Crises | | | | 4 | | The Real Output Losses Associated with Modern Banking Crises by John H. Boyd and Sungkyu Kwak and Bruce Smith | | 99 | | 5 | | The Twin Crises: The Causes of Banking and Balance-of-Payments Problems by Graciela L. Kaminsky and Carmen M. Reinhart | | 122 | | 6 | | The Unholy Trinity of Financial Contagion by Graciela L. Kaminsky and Carmen M. Reinhart and Carlos A. Vegh | | 150 | | Pt. III | | Banking Crises | | | | 7 | | A Model of Reserves, Bank Runs, and Deposit Insurance by John Bryant | | 177 | | 8 | | Bank Runs, Deposit Insurance, and Liquidity by Douglas W. Diamond and Philip H. Dybvig | | 187 | | 9 | | The Role of Demandable Debt in Structuring Optimal Banking Arrangements by Charles W. Calomiris and Charles M. Kahn | | 206 | | 10 | | Optimal Financial Crises by Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale | | 233 | | 11 | | Financial Intermediaries and Markets by Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale | | 273 | | 12 | | Coordination Failures and the Lender of Last Resort: Was Bagehot Right after All? by Jean-Charles Rochet and Xavier Vives | | 312 | | 13 | | Demand-Deposit Contracts and the Probability of Bank Runs by Itay Goldstein and Ady Pauzner | | 344 | | 14 | | Bubbles and Crises by Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale | | 379 | | 15 | | Money in a Theory of Banking by Douglas W. Diamond and Raghuram G. Rajan | | 399 | | | More... | | |
'Franklin Allen and Douglas Gale, who have made truly decisive contributions to our understanding of runs, contagion and financial crises, were the ideal scholars to edit this volume. Financial Crises is a well-balanced collection of important articles on the topic, with theoretical, empirical and historical perspectives; a must-read for students, researchers and practitioners interested in banking and currency crises.'- Jean Tirole, University of Sciences, Toulouse, France  Be the first to write a customer review
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