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Introduction |
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1 The Radiography of the Financial System, with a Focus on the United States |
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1.1 The different aspects of the financial system in general |
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1.2 Financial - monetary economy fundamentals |
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1.2.1 Money supply: Money creation by the central and commercial banks |
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1.2.2 Money creation and "monetary destruction" |
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1.2.3 Questioning the money multiplier process |
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1.2.4 Non-neutrality and super non-neutrality of money |
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1.3 Developments in the current U.S. financial system |
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1.3.1 Loan and bank credit decoupling from money and nonbanking superfinancialization |
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1.3.1.1 Credit aggregates: Suitable for nominal GDP targeting? |
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1.3.1.2 Financial interconnections |
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1.3.1.3 Securitization, credit origins, and holdings |
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1.3.2 The Fed's role in causing the great moderation |
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1.3.3 The movement of long-term and short-term interest rates |
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1.4 Preliminary conclusions |
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2 Historical, Conceptual, and Empirical Approaches to Crises |
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2.1 The influence of the financial system on economic crises: The historical context |
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2.1.3 Great depression of the 1930s |
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2.1.6 The great recession |
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2.2 Considerations about equilibrium illusions |
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2.3 The current status of the literature on economic and financial crises and its critique |
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2.4 An examination of relevant indicators to forecast the crisis |
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2.4.1 The omnipresence of a financial indicator, as a proof of the inseparability of business cycle from financial cycle |
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2.4.2 Instances where inverted yield curve and credit variables may fail to predict crisis |
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2.4.3 Other suitable indicators for predicting crises |
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2.4.4 Signals that are too weak or have lost their ability to add information |
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2.5 Preliminary conclusions |
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3 Coordinates and Determinants of Financial Instability |
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3.1 Evidence from the literature |
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3.2 Main determinants of financial instability |
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3.2.1 Capital mobility and the size of capital |
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3.2.2 Decreasing profitability for financial institutions |
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3.2.3 Economic inequality |
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3.2.4 Low and stable inflation |
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3.3 Preliminary conclusions |
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4 Potential Solutions for Financial Stability |
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4.1 The advantages of Chicago Plan |
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4.2 The benefits of a cashless society |
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4.3 Capital requirements management |
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4.4 Inflation targeting versus price-level targeting, inflation channel, and nominal GDP |
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4.5 Yield curve and interest rates management |
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4.6 Considerations on "helicopter money drop" solution |
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4.7 Preliminary conclusions |
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5 Economic Crisis Forecast Model |
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5.1 The usual recession mechanism |
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5.3 Testing the predictive power of the model based on financial indicators of the Great Recession |
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5.4 Coronavirus recession and its correlation with the proposed model |
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5.5 Preliminary conclusions |
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References |
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List of Appendixes |
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List of Figures |
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List of Tables |
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