The incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis

Kurt W. Rotthoff

International Journal of Trade and Global Markets, 2011, vol. 4, issue 4, 343-349

Abstract: There are many events that led up to the financial crisis of 2008. This study looks at the political policies in place before the crisis happened. Focusing on the decade and a half prior to the crisis, the incentives in the financial industry led to risk mitigation. This response to mitigate risk explains, at least in part, a reason why there was a boom in the Collateralised Debt Obligations (CDO) and Mortgage-Backed Securities (MBS) markets in the years leading up to the crisis.

Keywords: moral hazards; financial crises; employee incentives; financial policies; political policies; politics; risk mitigation; CDOs; collateralised debt obligations; collateralisation; MBSs; mortgage-backed securities; mortgages; securitisation; securities markets; USA; United States; housing; globalisation; trade; global markets. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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