PREPARING FOR THE NEXT
FINANCIAL CRISIS
The ramications of the Global Financial Crisis, which erupted in 2007, continue
to surprise not only the general public but also nance professionals, economists,
and journalists. Faced with this challenge, Preparing for the Next Financial Crisis
goes back to basics. The authors ask: what do theory and empirical o bservations
tell us about the causes and the consequences of nancial crisis and instability?
In what has become an increasingly complex nancial world, what lessons can
we learn from economic policies, which have been implemented, and research,
which has developed extremely rapidly in recent years, so as not to repeat past
mistakes?
In this comprehensive review of the literature, which i