Leverage? : What Leverage? A Deep Dive into the U.S. Flow of Funds in Search of Clues to the Global Crisis /

This paper questions the view that leverage should have forewarned us of the global financial crisis of 2007-09, pointing to several gearing indicators that were neither useful portents of the onset of the crisis nor of its ferocity. Instead it shows, first, that the use of ill-suited collateral in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bayoumi, Tamim
Other Authors: Bhatia, Ashok
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/162
Online Access:Full text available on IMF