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Author:Kohn, Donald L. 

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Financial statistics for the United States and the crisis: what did they get right, what did they miss, and how should they change?

Although the instruments and transactions most closely associated with the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 were novel, the underlying themes that played out in the crisis were familiar from previous episodes: Competitive dynamics resulted in excessive leverage and risk-taking by large, interconnected firms, in heavy reliance on short-term sources of funding to finance long-term and ultimately terribly illiquid positions, and in common exposures being shared by many major financial institutions. Understandably, in the wake of the crisis, financial supervisors and policymakers want to obtain ...
Finance and Economics Discussion Series , Paper 2010-20

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