Screen LibraryFinancial crisis 2008
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Saw Centre for Financial Studies,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Saw Centre financial studies ; no. 5 |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 83 p.: ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9789810820961 9810820968 |
| Index Number: | F831 |
| CLC: | F831.59 |
| Call Number: | F831.59/F491-6 |
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Failures on many fronts / Bernard Yeung -- Moral hazard : heads I win, tails you lose / Ivan Png -- The truly toxic combination / Ivan Png -- Liquidity shortages : some solid facts / Allaudeen Hameed -- Getting a firm grip on securitisation / Anand Srinivasan. After the shock bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in mid-September of 2008, a substantial risk of a financial meltdown was barely averted and global credit markets froze. The severe 2008 financial crisis in the USA has already spilt over into the real economy. It is also infecting the interconnected world. It will probably be one of the most serious crises threatening the world. Will it be more like the perfect storm of 1907 or the Great Depression of 1929? In years to come, much ink and analyses will be devoted to the dramatic events of 2008, their root causes and the aftermath. This book refle |