Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (New in Paper)
Fault Lines: How Hidden Fractures Still Threaten the World Economy (New in Paper)
Raghuram Rajan was one of the few economists who warned of the global financial crisis before it hit. Now, as the world struggles to recover, it’s tempting to blame what happened on just a few greedy bankers who took irrational risks and left the rest of us to foot the bill. In Fault Lines, Rajan argues that serious flaws in the economy are also to blame, and warns that a potentially more devastating crisis awaits us if they aren’t fixed.
Rajan shows how the individual choices that collectively brought about the economic meltdown–made by bankers, government officials, and ordinary homeowners–were rational responses to a flawed global financial order in which the incentives to take on risk are incredibly out of step with the dangers those risks pose. He traces the deepening fault lines in a world overly dependent on the indebted American consumer to power global economic growth and stave off global downturns. He exposes a system where America’s growing inequality and thin social safety net create tremendous political pressure to encourage easy credit and keep job creation robust, no matter what the consequences to the economy’s long-term health; and where the U.S. financial sector, with its skewed incentives, is the critical but unstable link between an overstimulated America and an underconsuming world.
In Fault Lines, Rajan demonstrates how unequal access to education and health care in the United States puts us all in deeper financial peril, even as the economic choices of countries like Germany, Japan, and China place an undue burden on America to get its policies right. He outlines the hard choices we need to make to ensure a more stable world economy and restore lasting prosperity.
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Credit Risk Management In and Out of the Financial Crisis: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms (Wiley Finance) Reviews
Credit Risk Management In and Out of the Financial Crisis: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms (Wiley Finance)
A classic book on credit risk management is updated to reflect the current economic crisis
Credit Risk Management In and Out of the Financial Crisis dissects the 2007-2008 credit crisis and provides solutions for professionals looking to better manage risk through modeling and new technology. This book is a complete update to Credit Risk Measurement: New Approaches to Value at Risk and Other Paradigms, reflecting events stemming from the recent credit crisis.
Authors Anthony Saunders and Linda Allen address everything from the implications of new regulations to how the new rules will change everyday activity in the finance industry. They also provide techniques for modeling-credit scoring, structural, and reduced form models-while offering sound advice for stress testing credit risk models and when to accept or reject loans.
- Breaks down the latest credit risk measurement and modeling techniques and simplifies many of the technical and analytical details surrounding them
- Concentrates on the underlying economics to objectively evaluate new models
- Includes new chapters on how to prevent another crisis from occurring
Understanding credit risk measurement is now more important than ever. Credit Risk Management In and Out of the Financial Crisis will solidify your knowledge of this dynamic discipline.
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Economic Capital: How It Works, and What Every Manager Needs to Know Reviews
Economic Capital: How It Works, and What Every Manager Needs to Know
Managers can deploy and manage economic capital more effectively when they understand how their decisions add value to their organizations. Economic Capital: How It Works and What Every Manager Needs to Know presents new ways to define, measure, and implement management strategies by using recent examples, many from the sub-prime crisis. The authors also discuss the role of economic capital within the broader context of management responsibilities and activities as well as its relation to other risk management tools that are available to the modern risk manager.
- Explains ways to use economic capital in balancing risk and return
- Evaluates solutions to problems encountered in establishing an economic capital framework
- Emphasizes intuition
- Draws special attention to embedding risk modelling approaches within economic capital frameworks
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