Economic Policy 62 Financial Crisis Issue

by De Menil, Georges; Portes, Richard; Sinn, Hans-Werner; Jappelli, Tullio; Lane, Philip; Martin, Philippe; Van Ours, Jan

• ISBN13: 9781405197007
• ISBN10: 1405197005
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-06-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Top economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Economic Policy has earned a reputation around the world as the one publication that always identifies current and emerging policy topics early Papers are specially commissioned from first-class economists and experts in the policy field The editors are all based at top European economic institutions and each paper is discussed by a panel of distinguished economists This unique approach guarantees incisive debate and alternative interpretations of the evidence

Author Biography

The Managing Editors of Economic Policy:

Tullio Jappelli is CSEF Director and Professor of Economics at the University of Naples Federico II.

Philip Lane is Professor of International Macroeconomics at Trinity College Dublin.

Philippe Martin is Professor at the Université Paris-1 Panthéon Sorbonne and CERASENPC and a Research Fellow at CEPR.

Jan van Ours is Professor of Economics at Tilburg University and Professorial Fellow at Melbourne University.

The Senior Editors of Economic Policy:

Georges de Menil works at the Delta Ens, France.

Richard Portes lectures in the Department of Economics, London Business School.

Hans-Werner Sinn is based at the Centre for Economic Studies, University of Munich.

Table of Contents

Financial Crisis Issue: Introduction.

1. From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons (Miguel Almunia, Agustín Bénétrix, Barry Eichengreen, Kevin H. O'Rourke and Gisela Rua).

2. Cross-country Experiences and Policy Implications from the Global Financial Crisis (Stijn Claessens, Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, Deniz Igan and Luc Laeven).

3. Monetary Policy in Exceptional Times (Michele Lenza, Huw Pill and Lucrezia Reichlin).

4. Banking Crisis Management in the EU: an Early Assessment (Jean Pisani-Ferry and André Sapir).

5. Post-Crisis Challenges to Bank Regulation (Xavier Freixas).

6. Credit Ratings Failures and Policy Options (Marco Pagano and Paolo Volpin).