Global Imbalances and Financial Fragility

The United States is currently engulfed in the most severe financial crisis since the Great Depression. The crisis was triggered by the crash in the real estate “bubble” and amplified by the extreme concentration of risk in a highly leveraged financial sector. Conventional wisdom is that both t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Caballero, Ricardo J., Krishnamurthy, Arvind
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2011
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/61377
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2760-451X