Leverage? What Leverage? A Deep Dive into the U.S. Flow of Funds in Search of Clues to the Global Crisis.

By: Bayoumi, TamimContributor(s): Bhatia, Ashok VirMaterial type: TextTextSeries: IMF Working PapersPublisher: Washington DC : International Monetary Fund, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (31 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781475597608Subject(s): Financial crises | Financial leverage | Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009Genre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Leverage? What Leverage? A Deep Dive into the U.S. Flow of Funds in Search of Clues to the Global CrisisDDC classification: 332 LOC classification: HB3722 -- .B43 2012ebOnline resources: Click to View
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Cover -- Contents -- Glossary -- Executive Summary -- I. Introduction: Our Search for the Smoking Gun -- II. The Flow of Funds Accounts: From the Macro to the Financial -- A. Nonfinancial Private Sector Net Worth: A Rational Gambit -- B. Household Finances: Let the Good Times Roll -- C. Nonfinancial Business Finances: The Cash Cow -- D. Government Finances: Use that Firepower -- E. Foreign Investors in the U.S. Credit Markets: Pay to Play -- F. Gross and Net Credit Growth: Strong for Long -- G. Financial Sector Size and "Churning" Activity: Inward We Look -- H. Financial Sector Structure and "Shadow Banking": Brave New World -- I. Private-Label Securitization: Bankruptcy-Remote Indeed -- J. The Secured Wholesale Funding Chain: In Collateral We Trust -- III. Conclusion: Investment Banks as the Fulcrum -- References -- Figures -- 1. Leverage? What Leverage? -- 2. Was it Debtor Leverage? -- 3. Was it Households as Net Debtors? -- 4. Was it a Borrowing Spree by Firms? -- 5. Was it Foreigners Buying U.S. Treasuries? -- 6. Was it Foreigners Buying Everything? -- 7. Was it Credit Growth? -- 8. Was it Financial Sector Size? -- 9. Was it "Shadow Banking"? -- 10. Was it the Bundling? -- 11. Was it the Funding Model? -- 12. In Summary.
Summary: This paper questions the view that leverage should have forewarned us of the global financial crisis of 2007-09, pointing to several gearing indicators that were neither useful portents of the onset of the crisis nor of its ferocity. Instead it shows, first, that the use of ill-suited collateral in the secured funding operations of U.S.-based investment banks was the fatal link between the collapse of structured finance and the global malfunction of funding markets that turbocharged the downdraft; and, second, that this insight (and others) can be decrypted from the Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States.
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Cover -- Contents -- Glossary -- Executive Summary -- I. Introduction: Our Search for the Smoking Gun -- II. The Flow of Funds Accounts: From the Macro to the Financial -- A. Nonfinancial Private Sector Net Worth: A Rational Gambit -- B. Household Finances: Let the Good Times Roll -- C. Nonfinancial Business Finances: The Cash Cow -- D. Government Finances: Use that Firepower -- E. Foreign Investors in the U.S. Credit Markets: Pay to Play -- F. Gross and Net Credit Growth: Strong for Long -- G. Financial Sector Size and "Churning" Activity: Inward We Look -- H. Financial Sector Structure and "Shadow Banking": Brave New World -- I. Private-Label Securitization: Bankruptcy-Remote Indeed -- J. The Secured Wholesale Funding Chain: In Collateral We Trust -- III. Conclusion: Investment Banks as the Fulcrum -- References -- Figures -- 1. Leverage? What Leverage? -- 2. Was it Debtor Leverage? -- 3. Was it Households as Net Debtors? -- 4. Was it a Borrowing Spree by Firms? -- 5. Was it Foreigners Buying U.S. Treasuries? -- 6. Was it Foreigners Buying Everything? -- 7. Was it Credit Growth? -- 8. Was it Financial Sector Size? -- 9. Was it "Shadow Banking"? -- 10. Was it the Bundling? -- 11. Was it the Funding Model? -- 12. In Summary.

This paper questions the view that leverage should have forewarned us of the global financial crisis of 2007-09, pointing to several gearing indicators that were neither useful portents of the onset of the crisis nor of its ferocity. Instead it shows, first, that the use of ill-suited collateral in the secured funding operations of U.S.-based investment banks was the fatal link between the collapse of structured finance and the global malfunction of funding markets that turbocharged the downdraft; and, second, that this insight (and others) can be decrypted from the Flow of Funds Accounts of the United States.

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