Overview
- Contributes to our knowledge about the causes and consequences of financial crises
- Covers both the genesis of the crisis, effects on other countries and the consequences for the general public in terms of financial hardship and health outcomes
- Contributors have a range of backgrounds including academic as well as experience in international institutions, central banks and commercial banks
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Keywords
- Icelandic economy
- Origins of the 2007/2008 financial crisis
- Financial crises
- Small open economies
- US financial crisis
- Crisis and boom
- Banking crisis
- Currency crisis
- Asian crisis
- Regulatory response to financial crisis
- Financial market turbulence
- Capital flows
- Monetary Regimes
- Banking Regulation
- Cross-Border Financial Flows
- The Icelandic banking crisis of 2008
- Business cycles and health
- Post-crisis monetary policy reforms
- Inflation targeting
- Capital controls
- banking
Table of contents (21 chapters)
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The Source of the 2008 Global Financial Crisis
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Iceland and the 2008 Global Crisis
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Gylfi Zoega received his first degree at the University of Iceland and a PhD in economics from Columbia University in 1993. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Iceland and Birkbeck College, London, since 1993 and an external member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank of Iceland. He has followed the financial crisis in Iceland and taken part in the recovery effort for the past ten years. In addition, he has written a number of academic papers on financial turbulence and capital flows and co-authored the book Preludes to the Icelandic Financial Crash in 2011.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The 2008 Global Financial Crisis in Retrospect
Book Subtitle: Causes of the Crisis and National Regulatory Responses
Editors: Robert Z. Aliber, Gylfi Zoega
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12395-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12394-9Published: 13 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12397-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12395-6Published: 01 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 443
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 75 illustrations in colour
Topics: Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics, International Economics, Law and Economics, Financial Crises, Banking