| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 92 pages) : color illustrations |
| Series |
Hoover Institution Press publication ; no. 570 |
|
Hoover Institution Press publication ; 570.
|
| Contents |
What caused the financial crisis -- What prolonged the crisis -- Why the crisis worsened dramatically a year after it began -- What went right in the two decades before the crisis -- Why a black swan landed in the money market in August 2007 |
| Summary |
Throughout history, financial crises have always been caused by excesses--frequently monetary excesses--which lead to a boom and an inevitable bust. In our current crisis it was a housing boom and bust that in turn led to financial turmoil in the United States and other countries. How did everything deteriorate so suddenly and dramatically? In Getting Off Track: How Government Actions and Interventions Caused, Prolonged, and Worsened the Financial Crisis, Hoover fellow and Stanford economist John B. Taylor offers empirical research to explain what caused the current financial crisis, what prolonged it, and what worsened it dramatically more than a year after it began. The author tells how unusually easy monetary policy helped set the crisis in motion, as interest rates at the Federal Reserve and several other central banks deviated from historical regularities. He explains monetary interaction with the subprime mortgage problem, showing how the use of these mortgages, especially the adjustable-rate variety, led to excessive risk taking. In the United States this was encouraged by government programs designed to promote home ownership, a worthwhile goal but overdone in retrospect. Looking ahead, the author suggests a set of principles to follow to prevent misguided actions and interventions in the future. -- Book Description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 77-79) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
|
English |
|
Print version record |
|
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| SUBJECT |
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld gnd |
| Subject |
Financial crises.
|
|
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Government policy -- United States
|
|
Financial crises -- United States
|
|
Monetary policy.
|
|
Mortgages -- Government policy
|
|
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic Conditions.
|
|
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economic History.
|
|
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Comparative.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy.
|
|
Financial crises
|
|
Government policy
|
|
Monetary policy
|
|
Mortgages -- Government policy
|
|
Finanzkrise
|
|
Geldpolitik
|
|
Hypothekarkredit
|
|
Politische Steuerung
|
|
Regulierung
|
|
Kredietcrisis (2008- )
|
|
Monetaire politiek.
|
|
Financial crises.
|
|
Financial crises -- United States.
|
|
Monetary policy.
|
|
Mortgages -- Government policy.
|
|
Financial crises.
|
|
Financial crises -- United States.
|
|
Monetary policy.
|
|
Mortgages -- Government policy.
|
|
United States
|
|
Verenigde Staten.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Hoover Institution Press.
|
| LC no. |
2009003410 |
| ISBN |
9780817949730 |
|
0817949739 |
|
9780817949785 |
|
081794978X |
|
