Banking Crises Perspectives from the New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics [Hardcover]

Why do banks collapse? Are financial systems more fragile in recent decades? Can policies to fix the banking system do more harm than good? What's the history of banking crises? With dozens of brief, non-technical articles by economists and other researchers, Banking Crises offers answers from diverse scholarly viewpoints.Asa BriggsCharles. A. E. GoodhartCharles W. CalomirisMarkus K. BrunnermeierCharles P. KindlebergerKristin J. ForbesThe Statesman's Yearbook teamJoel ShapiroGraciela Laura KaminskyCraig Burnside, Martin Eichenbaum and Sergio RebeloDaniel Gros and Cinzia AlcidiDonald. D. HesterNicos ChristodoulakisPeter TeminSatyajit Chatterjee and P. Dean CorbaeBrett House, David Vines and W. Max CordenPeter TeminDaniel FriedmanThomas J. Fitzpatrick IV and James B. ThomsonGauti B. EggertssonL. Randall WrayJ. AshworthC. A. E. GoodhartTobias Adrian and Adam B. AshcraftHans-Joachim VothChristopher L. Foote and Paul S. WillenPeter GarberDario Focarelli and Alberto Franco PozzoloLawrence H. OfficerStanley W. BlackMichael D. BordoPrice V. FishbackMiguel A. Iraola and Manuel S. Santos