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What is a Ponzi scheme?

  • A scheme that promises low rates of return, pays initial investors with money from new investors, and eventually collapses
  • A scheme that guarantees high rates of return, pays initial investors with money from the stock market, and eventually collapses
  • A scheme that guarantees high rates of return, pays initial investors with money from the government, and eventually collapses
  • A scheme that promises high rates of return, pays initial investors with money from new investors, and eventually collapses (correct)
  • Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

  • Jeff Bezos
  • Warren Buffet
  • Bernie Madoff (correct)
  • Bill Gates
  • What do chain letters and pyramid schemes involve?

  • Isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants (correct)
  • A group of investors buying an asset and holding onto it for a long period of time
  • A group of investors buying an asset with no intention of selling it
  • A group of investors buying an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price
  • What is a bubble?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are manias?

    <p>Frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When is government intervention desirable during a crisis?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort during a crash or panic?

    <p>Fraught with ambiguity and dilemma</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>A model that argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What triggers a mania according to the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>An outside, exogenous shock</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the recent shock that has triggered manias according to the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>Financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do investors speculate in during manias according to the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>Commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme that promises high rates of return, pays initial investors with money from new investors, and eventually collapses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

    <p>Bernie Madoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do chain letters and pyramid schemes involve?

    <p>Isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a bubble?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are manias?

    <p>Frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When is government intervention desirable during a crisis?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort during a crash or panic?

    <p>Fraught with ambiguity and dilemma</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>A model that argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What triggers a mania according to the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>An outside, exogenous shock</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the recent shock that has triggered manias according to the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>Financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do investors speculate in during manias according to the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>Commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme that promises high returns and pays initial investors with money from new investors, eventually collapsing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

    <p>Bernie Madoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do chain letters and pyramid schemes involve?

    <p>Isolated segments of the economy and redistributing income from latecomers to initial participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do bubbles involve?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are manias?

    <p>Frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When is government intervention desirable during a crisis?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort during a crash or panic?

    <p>Fraught with ambiguity and dilemma</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>A model that argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What triggers a mania in different historical settings?

    <p>The nature of the outside, exogenous shock</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has financial liberalization or deregulation led to in several countries?

    <p>Both domestic monetary expansion and increases in borrowing in foreign centers to finance domestic loans and speculative investment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What have investors speculated in according to the text?

    <p>Commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme where initial investors are paid with money from new investors and eventually collapses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>A model that argues the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>A model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis presented in Chapter 2</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do chain letters and pyramid schemes involve?

    <p>Isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are bubbles?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of government intervention during a crisis?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the ambiguity and dilemma in the role of a lender of last resort in coping with a crash or panic?

    <p>Fraught with ambiguity and dilemma</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do waves of surges in credit supply and subsequent banking crises suggest?

    <p>Market events have become more global</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between currency crises and banking crises?

    <p>Every currency crisis has been associated with a banking crisis in the last 40 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are the recent shocks that trigger manias?

    <p>Financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the outcome of moderate excesses during manias?

    <p>Burn themselves out without significant damage to the economy although individual investors encounter large losses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme in which initial investors are paid with money from new investors and eventually collapses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

    <p>Bernie Madoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do chain letters and pyramid schemes involve?

    <p>Isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a bubble?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are manias?

    <p>Frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What raises the policy issue of whether governments should moderate price increases?

    <p>The appearance of a mania</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When is government intervention desirable during a crisis?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>The financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>A model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the nature of the outside, exogenous shock that triggers the mania examined in Chapter 3?

    <p>Financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What have investors speculated in according to the text?

    <p>Commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is examined in Chapter 4?

    <p>The monetary dimensions of both manias and panics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme where investors are promised high returns and paid with money from new investors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

    <p>Bernie Madoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do chain letters and pyramid schemes involve?

    <p>Redistributing income from latecomers to initial participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a bubble?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are manias?

    <p>Frenzied purchases often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When is government intervention desirable during a crisis?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort during a crash or panic?

    <p>Fraught with ambiguity and dilemma</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the Minsky model argue about the financial system in a market economy?

    <p>It is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What triggers a mania in different historical settings?

    <p>The nature of the outside, exogenous shock</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has financial liberalization or deregulation led to in several countries?

    <p>Both domestic monetary expansion and increases in borrowing in foreign centers to finance domestic loans and speculative investment</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do investors speculate in during manias?

    <p>Commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme in which initial investors are paid with money from new investors and eventually collapses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

    <p>Bernie Madoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do chain letters and pyramid schemes involve?

    <p>Isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are bubbles?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are manias?

    <p>Frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort during a crash or panic?

    <p>Fraught with ambiguity and dilemma</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>The financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the nature of the outside, exogenous shock that triggers the mania?

    <p>Financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do moderate excesses burn themselves out without significant damage to the economy mean?

    <p>Individual investors encounter large losses, but the economy is not significantly impacted</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does Chapter 4 analyze in the book?

    <p>The monetary dimensions of both manias and panics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are currency crises?

    <p>Manifestations of the decline in cross-border investment inflows on the price of a country's currency and the ability of indebted borrowers to pay interest on their foreign indebtedness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme where initial investors are paid with money from new investors and the scheme eventually collapses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

    <p>Bernie Madoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the difference between chain letters and pyramid schemes?

    <p>Chain letters involve isolated segments of the economy while pyramid schemes involve a hierarchy of participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a bubble?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are manias?

    <p>Frenzied purchases often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When is government intervention desirable during a crisis?

    <p>When government intervention may be desirable to provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort in coping with a crash or panic?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>A model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the nature of the outside, exogenous shock that triggers the mania?

    <p>A financial liberalization or deregulation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the monetary dimension of manias and panics?

    <p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What triggers a boom or a panic according to the book?

    <p>A monetary event</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme in which initial investors are paid with money from new investors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

    <p>Bernie Madoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a bubble?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a mania?

    <p>Frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort during a crisis?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>A model that argues the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What triggers a mania?

    <p>An outside, exogenous shock</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has been a recent shock that triggered a mania?

    <p>Financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is analyzed in Chapter 4 of the book?

    <p>The monetary dimensions of both manias and panics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a currency crisis?

    <p>A manifestation of the decline in cross-border investment inflows on the price of a country's currency and the ability of indebted borrowers to pay interest on their foreign indebtedness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the relationship between currency crises and banking crises?

    <p>Every currency crisis has been associated with a banking crisis in the last 40 years</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme where new investors are paid with money from initial investors and eventually collapses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

    <p>Bernie Madoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are chain letters and pyramid schemes?

    <p>Schemes that involve isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are bubbles?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are manias?

    <p>Frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When is government intervention during a crisis desirable?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort during a crash or panic?

    <p>Fraught with ambiguity and dilemma</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>A model that argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation examine?

    <p>The model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the recent shock that has triggered manias and panics?

    <p>Financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What have investors speculated in during manias and panics?

    <p>Commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme where new investors are paid with money from initial investors and eventually collapses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

    <p>Bernie Madoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are chain letters and pyramid schemes?

    <p>Schemes that involve isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are bubbles?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are manias?

    <p>Frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When is government intervention during a crisis desirable?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort during a crash or panic?

    <p>Fraught with ambiguity and dilemma</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>A model that argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation examine?

    <p>The model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the recent shock that has triggered manias and panics?

    <p>Financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What have investors speculated in during manias and panics?

    <p>Commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme where initial investors are paid with money from new investors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

    <p>Bernie Madoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do chain letters and pyramid schemes involve?

    <p>Redistributing income from latecomers to initial participants</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a bubble?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are manias?

    <p>Frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    When may government intervention be desirable during a crisis?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort during a crash or panic?

    <p>To provide emergency loans to financial institutions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the Minsky model argue about the financial system in a market economy?

    <p>It is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the outside, exogenous shock that triggers the mania examined in Chapter 3?

    <p>Financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What have investors speculated in during manias?

    <p>Commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are currency crises manifestations of?

    <p>The decline in cross-border investment inflows on the price of a country's currency and the ability of indebted borrowers to pay interest on their foreign indebtedness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme where initial investors are paid with money from new investors and eventually collapse</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

    <p>Bernie Madoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a bubble?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a mania?

    <p>Frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort during a crash or panic?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>A model that argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What triggers a mania according to the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>An outside, exogenous shock</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the recent shock that has triggered manias according to the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>Financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What have investors speculated in according to the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>Commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is analyzed in Chapter 4 of the book?

    <p>The monetary dimensions of both manias and panics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is noted about the occasions when a boom or a panic has been triggered?

    <p>It has been triggered by a monetary event</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme in which latecomers profit at the expense of initial investors</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the difference between chain letters and pyramid schemes?

    <p>Chain letters involve isolated segments of the economy, while pyramid schemes involve the entire economy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a bubble?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a mania?

    <p>Frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What policy issue does the appearance of a mania raise?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort during a crisis?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>A model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the nature of the outside, exogenous shock that triggers the mania?

    <p>Financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the monetary aspect of manias and panics?

    <p>The occasions when a boom or a panic has been triggered by a monetary event are noted</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>A model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis presented in Chapter 2</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the effect of currency crises on indebted borrowers?

    <p>They affect the ability of indebted borrowers to pay interest on their foreign indebtedness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do waves of surges in credit supply and subsequent banking crises since the mid-1970s suggest?

    <p>Market events have become more global</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a Ponzi scheme?

    <p>A scheme where initial investors are paid with money from new investors and eventually collapses</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes?

    <p>Bernie Madoff</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a bubble?

    <p>The purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What are manias?

    <p>Frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the policy issue raised by the appearance of a mania?

    <p>Whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the role of a lender of last resort during a crash or panic?

    <p>To provide stability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the Minsky model?

    <p>A model that argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What triggers a mania according to the Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation?

    <p>An outside, exogenous shock</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What have investors speculated in during manias?

    <p>All of the above</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is analyzed in Chapter 4 of the book?

    <p>The monetary dimensions of both manias and panics</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What has every currency crisis been associated with in the last 40 years?

    <p>A banking crisis</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the mid-1970s suggest about market events?

    <p>They have become more global</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Manias, Panics, and Crashes: Patterns of Financial Behavior

    • Ponzi schemes promise high rates of return, pay initial investors with money from new investors, and eventually collapse.

    • Bernie Madoff ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes, promising steady returns.

    • Chain letters and pyramid schemes involve isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants.

    • Bubbles involve the purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price.

    • Manias involve frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes.

    • The appearance of a mania raises the policy issue of whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises.

    • During a crisis, government intervention may be desirable to provide stability.

    • The role of a lender of last resort in coping with a crash or panic is fraught with ambiguity and dilemma.

    • The monetary aspects of manias and panics are important and are examined at length in the book.

    • Waves of surges in credit supply and subsequent banking crises since the mid-1970s suggest that market events have become more global.

    • Every currency crisis has been associated with a banking crisis in the last 40 years.

    • Currency crises are manifestations of the decline in cross-border investment inflows on the price of a country's currency and the ability of indebted borrowers to pay interest on their foreign indebtedness.The Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation

    • The model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis is presented in Chapter 2.

    • The Minsky model argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis.

    • The Minsky model has explanatory power for earlier crises in the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and several other countries.

    • Each crisis followed a surge in real estate prices that followed from an increase in the supplies of credit.

    • Chapter 3 examines whether markets in securities and real estate are always rational or whether speculation can be destabilizing.

    • The nature of the outside, exogenous shock that triggers the mania is examined in different historical settings.

    • A recent shock has been financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries.

    • Deregulation has led to both domestic monetary expansion and to increases in borrowing in foreign centers to finance domestic loans and speculative investment.

    • Investors have speculated in commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings.

    • Moderate excesses burn themselves out without significant damage to the economy although individual investors encounter large losses.

    • The monetary dimensions of both manias and panics are analyzed in Chapter 4.

    • The occasions when a boom or a panic has been triggered by a monetary event are noted.

    Manias, Panics, and Crashes: Patterns of Financial Behavior

    • Ponzi schemes promise high rates of return, pay initial investors with money from new investors, and eventually collapse.

    • Bernie Madoff ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes, promising steady returns.

    • Chain letters and pyramid schemes involve isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants.

    • Bubbles involve the purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price.

    • Manias involve frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes.

    • The appearance of a mania raises the policy issue of whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises.

    • During a crisis, government intervention may be desirable to provide stability.

    • The role of a lender of last resort in coping with a crash or panic is fraught with ambiguity and dilemma.

    • The monetary aspects of manias and panics are important and are examined at length in the book.

    • Waves of surges in credit supply and subsequent banking crises since the mid-1970s suggest that market events have become more global.

    • Every currency crisis has been associated with a banking crisis in the last 40 years.

    • Currency crises are manifestations of the decline in cross-border investment inflows on the price of a country's currency and the ability of indebted borrowers to pay interest on their foreign indebtedness.The Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation

    • The model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis is presented in Chapter 2.

    • The Minsky model argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis.

    • The Minsky model has explanatory power for earlier crises in the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and several other countries.

    • Each crisis followed a surge in real estate prices that followed from an increase in the supplies of credit.

    • Chapter 3 examines whether markets in securities and real estate are always rational or whether speculation can be destabilizing.

    • The nature of the outside, exogenous shock that triggers the mania is examined in different historical settings.

    • A recent shock has been financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries.

    • Deregulation has led to both domestic monetary expansion and to increases in borrowing in foreign centers to finance domestic loans and speculative investment.

    • Investors have speculated in commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings.

    • Moderate excesses burn themselves out without significant damage to the economy although individual investors encounter large losses.

    • The monetary dimensions of both manias and panics are analyzed in Chapter 4.

    • The occasions when a boom or a panic has been triggered by a monetary event are noted.

    Manias, Panics, and Crashes: Patterns of Financial Behavior

    • Ponzi schemes promise high rates of return, pay initial investors with money from new investors, and eventually collapse.

    • Bernie Madoff ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes, promising steady returns.

    • Chain letters and pyramid schemes involve isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants.

    • Bubbles involve the purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price.

    • Manias involve frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes.

    • The appearance of a mania raises the policy issue of whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises.

    • During a crisis, government intervention may be desirable to provide stability.

    • The role of a lender of last resort in coping with a crash or panic is fraught with ambiguity and dilemma.

    • The monetary aspects of manias and panics are important and are examined at length in the book.

    • Waves of surges in credit supply and subsequent banking crises since the mid-1970s suggest that market events have become more global.

    • Every currency crisis has been associated with a banking crisis in the last 40 years.

    • Currency crises are manifestations of the decline in cross-border investment inflows on the price of a country's currency and the ability of indebted borrowers to pay interest on their foreign indebtedness.The Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation

    • The model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis is presented in Chapter 2.

    • The Minsky model argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis.

    • The Minsky model has explanatory power for earlier crises in the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and several other countries.

    • Each crisis followed a surge in real estate prices that followed from an increase in the supplies of credit.

    • Chapter 3 examines whether markets in securities and real estate are always rational or whether speculation can be destabilizing.

    • The nature of the outside, exogenous shock that triggers the mania is examined in different historical settings.

    • A recent shock has been financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries.

    • Deregulation has led to both domestic monetary expansion and to increases in borrowing in foreign centers to finance domestic loans and speculative investment.

    • Investors have speculated in commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings.

    • Moderate excesses burn themselves out without significant damage to the economy although individual investors encounter large losses.

    • The monetary dimensions of both manias and panics are analyzed in Chapter 4.

    • The occasions when a boom or a panic has been triggered by a monetary event are noted.

    Manias, Panics, and Crashes: Patterns of Financial Behavior

    • Ponzi schemes promise high rates of return, pay initial investors with money from new investors, and eventually collapse.

    • Bernie Madoff ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes, promising steady returns.

    • Chain letters and pyramid schemes involve isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants.

    • Bubbles involve the purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price.

    • Manias involve frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes.

    • The appearance of a mania raises the policy issue of whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises.

    • During a crisis, government intervention may be desirable to provide stability.

    • The role of a lender of last resort in coping with a crash or panic is fraught with ambiguity and dilemma.

    • The monetary aspects of manias and panics are important and are examined at length in the book.

    • Waves of surges in credit supply and subsequent banking crises since the mid-1970s suggest that market events have become more global.

    • Every currency crisis has been associated with a banking crisis in the last 40 years.

    • Currency crises are manifestations of the decline in cross-border investment inflows on the price of a country's currency and the ability of indebted borrowers to pay interest on their foreign indebtedness.The Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation

    • The model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis is presented in Chapter 2.

    • The Minsky model argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis.

    • The Minsky model has explanatory power for earlier crises in the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and several other countries.

    • Each crisis followed a surge in real estate prices that followed from an increase in the supplies of credit.

    • Chapter 3 examines whether markets in securities and real estate are always rational or whether speculation can be destabilizing.

    • The nature of the outside, exogenous shock that triggers the mania is examined in different historical settings.

    • A recent shock has been financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries.

    • Deregulation has led to both domestic monetary expansion and to increases in borrowing in foreign centers to finance domestic loans and speculative investment.

    • Investors have speculated in commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings.

    • Moderate excesses burn themselves out without significant damage to the economy although individual investors encounter large losses.

    • The monetary dimensions of both manias and panics are analyzed in Chapter 4.

    • The occasions when a boom or a panic has been triggered by a monetary event are noted.

    Manias, Panics, and Crashes: Patterns of Financial Behavior

    • Ponzi schemes promise high rates of return, pay initial investors with money from new investors, and eventually collapse.

    • Bernie Madoff ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes, promising steady returns.

    • Chain letters and pyramid schemes involve isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants.

    • Bubbles involve the purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price.

    • Manias involve frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes.

    • The appearance of a mania raises the policy issue of whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises.

    • During a crisis, government intervention may be desirable to provide stability.

    • The role of a lender of last resort in coping with a crash or panic is fraught with ambiguity and dilemma.

    • The monetary aspects of manias and panics are important and are examined at length in the book.

    • Waves of surges in credit supply and subsequent banking crises since the mid-1970s suggest that market events have become more global.

    • Every currency crisis has been associated with a banking crisis in the last 40 years.

    • Currency crises are manifestations of the decline in cross-border investment inflows on the price of a country's currency and the ability of indebted borrowers to pay interest on their foreign indebtedness.The Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation

    • The model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis is presented in Chapter 2.

    • The Minsky model argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis.

    • The Minsky model has explanatory power for earlier crises in the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and several other countries.

    • Each crisis followed a surge in real estate prices that followed from an increase in the supplies of credit.

    • Chapter 3 examines whether markets in securities and real estate are always rational or whether speculation can be destabilizing.

    • The nature of the outside, exogenous shock that triggers the mania is examined in different historical settings.

    • A recent shock has been financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries.

    • Deregulation has led to both domestic monetary expansion and to increases in borrowing in foreign centers to finance domestic loans and speculative investment.

    • Investors have speculated in commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings.

    • Moderate excesses burn themselves out without significant damage to the economy although individual investors encounter large losses.

    • The monetary dimensions of both manias and panics are analyzed in Chapter 4.

    • The occasions when a boom or a panic has been triggered by a monetary event are noted.

    Manias, Panics, and Crashes: Patterns of Financial Behavior

    • Ponzi schemes promise high rates of return, pay initial investors with money from new investors, and eventually collapse.

    • Bernie Madoff ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes, promising steady returns.

    • Chain letters and pyramid schemes involve isolated segments of the economy and redistribute income from latecomers to initial participants.

    • Bubbles involve the purchase of an asset in anticipation of selling it to someone else at a higher price.

    • Manias involve frenzied purchases, often accompanied by an increase in prices and trading volumes.

    • The appearance of a mania raises the policy issue of whether governments should moderate price increases to reduce the likelihood or severity of banking crises.

    • During a crisis, government intervention may be desirable to provide stability.

    • The role of a lender of last resort in coping with a crash or panic is fraught with ambiguity and dilemma.

    • The monetary aspects of manias and panics are important and are examined at length in the book.

    • Waves of surges in credit supply and subsequent banking crises since the mid-1970s suggest that market events have become more global.

    • Every currency crisis has been associated with a banking crisis in the last 40 years.

    • Currency crises are manifestations of the decline in cross-border investment inflows on the price of a country's currency and the ability of indebted borrowers to pay interest on their foreign indebtedness.The Stylized Model of Financial Crises and Speculation

    • The model of speculation, credit expansion, financial distress, and crisis is presented in Chapter 2.

    • The Minsky model argues that the financial system in a market economy is unstable, fragile, and prone to crisis.

    • The Minsky model has explanatory power for earlier crises in the United States, Western Europe, Japan, and several other countries.

    • Each crisis followed a surge in real estate prices that followed from an increase in the supplies of credit.

    • Chapter 3 examines whether markets in securities and real estate are always rational or whether speculation can be destabilizing.

    • The nature of the outside, exogenous shock that triggers the mania is examined in different historical settings.

    • A recent shock has been financial liberalization or deregulation in several countries.

    • Deregulation has led to both domestic monetary expansion and to increases in borrowing in foreign centers to finance domestic loans and speculative investment.

    • Investors have speculated in commodities, agricultural land, urban building sites, railroads, new banks, discount houses, stocks, bonds (both foreign and domestic), glamour stocks, conglomerates, condominiums, shopping centers, and office buildings.

    • Moderate excesses burn themselves out without significant damage to the economy although individual investors encounter large losses.

    • The monetary dimensions of both manias and panics are analyzed in Chapter 4.

    • The occasions when a boom or a panic has been triggered by a monetary event are noted.

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