Milne, Alistair <br/><br/>
The fall of the house of credit (EBook)  what went wrong in banking and what can be done to repair the damage? /  [Elektronisk resurs] : 
Alistair Milne 
 - Cambridge, UK ;  New York :  Cambridge University Press,  2009 
 - 1 online resource (380 s.) 
<br/><br/> Includes index 
<br/><br/>1. Where did all the money go? An analysis of the causes and cure of the current global banking crisis -- 2. Build-up, meltdown and intervention -- 3. We have been here before, haven't we? -- 4. A basic funding tool -- the tranched mortgage-backed security -- 5. Using tranching to make short-term transaction profits -- 6. Borrowing short and lending long: the illusion of liquidity in structured credit -- 7. The levees break -- 8. The flood of losses -- 9. Central banks and money markets -- 10. The run on the world's banks -- Conclusions: repairing the house of credit. 
<br/><br/> Untangles the complex world of modern banking and examines solutions to the crisis. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-511-59040-7 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) 0-511-59512-3 (electronic bk) 0-521-76214-6 (hbk) 6612316667 978-0-511-59040-5 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) 978-0-511-59512-7 (electronic bk) 978-0-521-76214-4 (hbk) 9786612316661 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Bank failures<br/>Bankenkrise.<br/>Bankers--Malpractice<br/>Bankinsolvenz.<br/>Banks and banking--Corrupt practices<br/>Credit<br/>Financial crises<br/>Kreditgesch�ft.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>The fall of the house of credit EBook
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>332.1