Apocalypse then: The Evolution of the North Atlantic Economy and the Global Crisis

Trung Bui and Tamim Bayoumi

No 2011/212, IMF Working Papers from International Monetary Fund

Abstract: The financial crisis, originated from the collapse of US housing markets in 2008, reverberates around the world. Its destructive force was felt nowhere more keenly than Western Europe. Indeed, it continues to mire in financial volatility as the debt problem contagiously spreads around the periphery Euro area. Taking a wider historical view of the evolution over the recent decades of the North Atlantic economy, comprising North America and Western Europe, we argue that while trade links were in relative stasis, the increasing and uniquely-close Transatlantic financial relationship was a crucial conduit in transmitting US shocks into global ones.

Keywords: WP; market; financial market; funding; IMF staff calculation; bank; Financial linkages; financial regulation; spillovers; market risk premiums; wholesale funding; BIS banking data; shock to US; funding market; funding cost; Commercial banks; Bonds; Investment banking; Bond yields; Western Europe; Global; North America; Europe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36
Date: 2011-09-01
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