Research and Course Guides: Financial Crisis Research: Getting Started

Welcome

Use this guide to find appropriate sources for your research paper.

Financial Crisis Commission

Financial Meltdown was 'Avoidable,' Inquiry Concludes (NY Times)
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
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Research Paper: Literature Review, Data Sources

This is a guide to sources on the 2007-2010 financial crises: exploring causes, comparing similar events in history, determining implications and policy responses, exploring international aspects.

You may be asked to write a "Literature Review," using scholarly or peer-reviewed journal articles to get the views of academic economists or other professionals on the subject. You might also need to find quantitative data sources to support arguments you make in support of your thesis. Use the tabs above in this guide to find helpful sources and suggestions on how to use them.

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Background Sources

A Financial History of the United States: From Enron-Era Scandals to the Subprime Crisis (2004-2006); From the Subprime Crisis to the Great Recession (2006-2009)
An e-book published in 2011 providing a comprehensive treatment of U.S. financial system history during these periods.
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Table of Contents for the 2nd Volume:
FROM THE SUBPRIME CRISIS TO THE GREAT RECESSION (2006-2009)

Part III. The Growth of the Mortgage Market - 375
9. Securitization - 377
Government Sponsored Enterprises
Mortgage Market Growth
Subprime Lending

10. Prelude To a Crisis - 412
Panics and Bubbles
Run Up to the Real Estate Bubble
The First Cracks Appear
The New Year - 2007

Part IV. The Subprime Crisis - 471
11. The Crisis Begins - 473
A Crumbling Landscape

12. The Great Panic Begins - 524
The Financial Hurricane
More Failures
The Bailout

13. The Crisis Continues - 572
The Contagion Spreads
Dealing with Chaos
The Automakers Fail
The Madoff Fraud and Other Problems
Closing Out the Year

Part V. The Crisis Abates - 623
14. The Rise and Fall of the Subprime Crisis - 625
The New President
Executive Compensation
The Bottom is Reached
Sunrise in America
The Way to Recovery

15. Regulation, Reform, and the Subprime Crisis - 696
Government Housing Policy
Government Economic Policies
SEC Capital Requirements
Other Regulatory Failures
Regulatory Reform
Regulation Abroad
Corporate Governance Reform

Conclusion - 767
Notes - 769
Selected Bibliography - 777
Cumulative Name Index
Cumulative Subject Index
A Financial History of the United States (2002; print)
Vol. I: From Christopher Columbus to the Robber Barons (1492-1900)
Vol. II: From J.P. Morgan to the Institutional Investor (1900-1970)
Vol. III: From the Age of Derivatives into the New Millennium (1970-2001)
The Financial Crisis Timeline
An outstanding resource from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank: overview, timeline, relevant sources for further reading.
The Economy: Crisis and Response
A variety of resources from the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank.
Crisis and Response: An FDIC History, 2008–2013
The history examines the FDIC’s response to the financial and banking crises.
International Monetary Fund's Financial Crisis page
This page pulls together the IMF's work on the financial crisis and includes links to key articles, documents, and background information.
The Blackwell Companion to the Economics of Housing: The Housing Wealth of Nations
Explores issues including volatility of home prices and the implications of such ‘booms and busts’ for the wider economy; the puzzling link between housing wealth and consumption; innovations in mortgage markets including sub-prime and the crisis it precipitated; the changing face of housing risk; and the challenge of mitigation.