Financial Crises: Understanding the Postwar U.S. Experience

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• Financial Crises *
• Financial Crises - Understanding the Postwar U.S. Experience *
• Contents *
• List of Tables *
• List of Figures xi
• Preface to the Second Edition xiii
• Financial Crises *
• 1: Introduction 3
• Part I the Business Cycle and Financial Crises *
• 2: Cyclical Theories of Financial Crises 9
• 3: Comparison of Cyclical Theories 24
• Part II Financial Crises in the Postwar U.S. Economy *
• 4: The Credit Crunch of 1966 31
• 5: 1970: Penn Central 40
• 6: 1974: Franklin National 49
• 7: The Silver Crisis of 1980 60

• Financial Crises *
• Financial Crises - Understanding the Postwar U.S. Experience *
• Contents *
• List of Tables *
• List of Figures xi
• Preface to the Second Edition xiii
• Financial Crises *
• 1: Introduction 3
• Part I the Business Cycle and Financial Crises *
• 2: Cyclical Theories of Financial Crises 9
• 3: Comparison of Cyclical Theories 24
• Part II Financial Crises in the Postwar U.S. Economy *
• 4: The Credit Crunch of 1966 31
• 5: 1970: Penn Central 40
• 6: 1974: Franklin National 49
• 7: The Silver Crisis of 1980 60
• 8: The 1982 Crisis 76
• 9: The Legacy of 1982 92
• 10: The Collapse of Speculative Lending and Investment 108
• Part III Understanding the Postwar Experience *
• 11: A Business-Cycle Model of Financial Crises 143
• 12: Evaluating the Business-Cycle Model 151
• 13: Noncyclical Theories of Financial Crises 192
• 14: The Changing Financial System 212
• Notes 233
• Selected Bibliography 253
• Index 259
• About the Author 269