TY - GEN AU - Milne,Alistair TI - The fall of the house of credit (EBook): what went wrong in banking and what can be done to repair the damage? SN - 0-511-59040-7 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions) U1 - 332.1 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge, UK, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Bank failures KW - Bankenkrise KW - Bankers KW - Malpractice KW - Bankinsolvenz KW - Banks and banking KW - Corrupt practices KW - Credit KW - Financial crises KW - Kreditgesch�ft KW - The fall of the house of credit EBook KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes index; 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 N2 - Untangles the complex world of modern banking and examines solutions to the crisis UR - http://www.myilibrary.com?id=231666&ref=toc UR - http://www.lub.lu.se/cgi-bin/ipchk/http://ebooks.cambridge.org/ebook.jsf?bid=CBO9780511596643 ER -