The contribution of wealth concentration to the subprime crisis: a quantitative estimation

Thomas Goda and Photis Lysandrou (p.lysandrou@londonmet.ac.uk)

No 10718, Documentos de Trabajo de Valor Público from Universidad EAFIT

Abstract: The crisis that broke out in mid-2007 was caused by the fact that the CDO market had grown to a size sufficient to wreak general havoc when it suddenly collapsed. Several authors have argued that economic inequality was important to the growth of this market. This paper attempts to strengthen this argument by concentrating attention on global wealth concentration. After summarising recent evidence on the negative impact of investor demand on US bond yields in the pre-crisis period, new evidence regarding the specific contribution of high net worth individuals to this negative impact is presented. The paper then goes on to show how, after having helped to caused a yield problem in the major US debt markets, high net worth individuals (via hedge funds) continued to be a major source of the pressure on US banks to resolve this yield problem through the mass production of CDOs

Keywords: Wealth concentration; Income inequality; CDOs; Subprime crisis; Bond yields (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 G01 G12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29
Date: 2011-12-10
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