TY - BOOK AU - Bayoumi,Tamim A. TI - Unfinished business: the unexplored causes of the financial crisis and the lessons yet to be learned SN - 9780300231830 AV - HB3722 .U545 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Financial crises KW - Banking law KW - History KW - 20th century KW - 21st century KW - Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; European banks unfettered --; US shadow banks unleashed --; Boom and bust --; A flawed monetary union --; Intellectual blinkers and unexpected spillovers --; A history of the international monetary system in five crises --; Will revamped financial regulations work? --; Making macroeconomics more relevant --; Whither EMU?; 2; b N2 - A penetrating critique tracing how under-regulated trading between European and U.S. banks led to the 2008 financial crisis--with a prescription for preventing another meltdown. There have been numerous books examining the 2008 financial crisis from either a U.S. or European perspective. Tamim Bayoumi is the first to explain how the Euro crisis and U.S. housing crash were, in fact, parasitically intertwined. Starting in the 1980s, Bayoumi outlines the cumulative policy errors that undermined the stability of both the European and U.S. financial sectors, highlighting the catalytic role played by European mega banks that exploited lax regulation to expand into the U.S. market and financed unsustainable bubbles on both continents. U.S. banks increasingly sold sub-par loans to under-regulated European and U.S. shadow banks and, when the bubbles burst, the losses whipsawed back to the core of the European banking system. A much-needed, fresh look at the origins of the crisis, Bayoumi's analysis concludes that policy makers are ignorant of what still needs to be done both to complete the cleanup and to prevent future crises UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1594959&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -