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The Credit Crisis: Conjectures About Causes and Remedies


Douglas W. Diamond


University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Raghuram G. Rajan


University of Chicago - Booth School of Business; International Monetary Fund (IMF); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
February 2009

NBER Working Paper No. w14739

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What caused the financial crisis that is sweeping across the world? What keeps asset prices and lending depressed? What can be done to remedy matters? While it is too early to arrive at definite answers to these questions, it is certainly time to offer informed conjectures, and these are the focus of this paper.

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Date posted: February 21, 2009  

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Diamond, Douglas W. and Rajan, Raghuram G., The Credit Crisis: Conjectures About Causes and Remedies (February 2009). NBER Working Paper No. w14739. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1347262

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