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Copyright
Contents
Contributors
Introduction / Alan S. Blinder, Andrew W. Lo, and Robert M. Solow
Part I. Rethinking Macroeconomics and Finance
1. Some Reflections on the Crisis and the Policy Response / Ben S. Bernanke
2. This Time, It Is Not Different: The Persistent Concerns of Financial Macroeconomics / J. Bradford DeLong
3. Credit Supply Shocks and Economic Activity in a Financial Accelerator Model / Simon G. Gilchrist and Egon Zakrajšek
Part II. Rethinking Market Efficiency
4. The Efficient-Market Hypothesis and the Financial Crisis / Burton G. Malkiel
5. Behavioral Finance in the Financial Crisis: Market Efficiency, Minsky, and Keynes / Hersh Shefrin and Meir Statman
6. Why Did So Many People Make So Many Ex Post Bad Decisions? The Causes of the Foreclosure Crisis / Christopher L. Foote and Kristopher S. Gerardi and Paul S. Willen
Part III. Rethinking Financial Innovation
7. Ratings, Mortgage Securitizations, and the Apparent Creation of Value / John Hull and Alan White
8. The Role of ABSs, CDSs, and CDOs in the Credit Crisis and the Economy / Robert A. Jarrow
9. Finance Versus Wal-Mart: Why Are Financial Services So Expensive? / Thomas Philippon
10. Shadow Finance / Patrick Bolton and Tano Santos and José A. Scheinkman
Part IV. Rethinking Financial Regulation
11. The Political Economy of Financial Regulation after the Crisis / Robert E. Litan
12. Pay, Politics, and the Financial Crisis / Kevin J. Murphy
Index