Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Where did all the money go? An analysis of the causes and cure of the current global banking crisis
- 2 Build-up, meltdown and intervention
- 3 We have been here before, haven't we?
- 4 A basic funding tool – the tranched mortgage-backed security
- 5 Using tranching to make short-term transaction profits
- 6 Borrowing short and lending long: the illusion of liquidity in structured credit
- 7 The levees break
- 8 The flood of losses
- 9 Central banks and money markets
- 10 The run on the world's banks
- Conclusions: repairing the house of credit
- Glossary
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 23 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Where did all the money go? An analysis of the causes and cure of the current global banking crisis
- 2 Build-up, meltdown and intervention
- 3 We have been here before, haven't we?
- 4 A basic funding tool – the tranched mortgage-backed security
- 5 Using tranching to make short-term transaction profits
- 6 Borrowing short and lending long: the illusion of liquidity in structured credit
- 7 The levees break
- 8 The flood of losses
- 9 Central banks and money markets
- 10 The run on the world's banks
- Conclusions: repairing the house of credit
- Glossary
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Fall of the House of CreditWhat Went Wrong in Banking and What Can Be Done to Repair the Damage?, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009