Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility

The United States is currently engulfed in the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression. The crisis was triggered by the crash in the real estate "bubble" and amplified by the extreme concentration of risk in a highly leveraged financial sector. Conventional wisdom is that b...

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Main Authors: Caballero, Ricardo J. (Contributor), Krishnamurthy, Arvind (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Economic Association, 2011-03-02T18:30:04Z.
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