Looking back at the financial crisis several years later, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan argued: At least
Question:
Looking back at the financial crisis several years later, former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan argued:
At least partly responsible [for the severity of the financial collapse] may have been the failure of risk managers to fully understand the impact of the emergence of shadow banking that increased financial innovation, but as a consequence, also increased the level of risk. The added risk had not been compensated by higher capital.
a. How did the emergence of shadow banking increase the risk to the financial system?
b. What does Greenspan mean that “the added risk had not been compensated by higher capital”? By holding more capital, what problems could shadow banks have potentially avoided?
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Money Banking And The Financial System
ISBN: 1801
3rd Edition
Authors: R. Glenn Hubbard, Anthony Patrick O'Brien