Ekonomi Bisnis
Vol 16, No 1 (2011)

DEBUNKING TWO MYTHS ABOUT THE ORIGINS OF THE 2007-2010 FINANCIAL AND ECONOMIC CRISIS

Roderick Macdonald (Département de Management et technologie École des sciences de la gestion -UQAM)

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Publish Date
03 Apr 2012

Abstract

The paper corrects two popular misconceptions about the originas of the 2007-2010 world financial and economic crisis. The first misconception was that it was caused by a greedy elite exploiting the ignorance and weakness of the poor. While there may have been irrepsoinible behavior within the finacial services, the story is rather one of a misguided benevolence of government bodies. The second misconception is that failed subprime mortgages were at the heart of misvalued mortgages backed securitites (and thus CDOs and CDOs squared) –the toxic assets that incarnated the finacial crash. Failed prime mortgages and jumbo mortgages were at least as important in thses toxoic assets.   Keywords : Financial crisis, sub-prime, mortgages, housing boom, government intervention

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Ekonomi Bisnis
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ekbis

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Universitas Gunadarma

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Computer Science & IT Decision Sciences, Operations Research & Management Economics, Econometrics & Finance Social Sciences

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Jurnal Ilmiah Ekonomi Bisnis is a journal through a peer-review process. Jurnal Ilmiah Ekonomi Bisnis is intended for academics and researchers to publish their articles which is an original text that has not been published in another journal. The focus and scope are in the fields of management, ...