A Crash Course on Crises: Macroeconomic Concepts for Run-Ups, Collapses, and Recoveries (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691223186)

An incisive overview of the macroeconomics of financial crises--essential reading for students and policy experts alike

With alarming frequency, modern economies go through macro-financial crashes that arise from the financial sector and spread to the broader economy, inflicting deep and prolonged recessions. A Crash Course on Crises brings together the latest cutting-edge economic research to identify the seeds of these crashes, reveal their triggers and consequences, and explain what policymakers can do about them.

Each of the book's ten self-contained chapters introduces readers to a key economic force and provides case studies that illustrate how that force was dominant. Markus Brunnermeier and Ricardo Reis show how the run-up phase of a crisis often occurs in ways that are preventable but that may go unnoticed and discuss how debt contracts, banks, and a search for safety can act as triggers and amplifiers that drive the economy to crash. Brunnermeier and Reis then explain how monetary, fiscal, and exchange-rate policies can respond to crises and prevent them from becoming persistent.

With case studies ranging from Chile in the 1970s to the COVID-19 pandemic, A Crash Course on Crises synthesizes a vast literature into ten simple, accessible ideas and illuminates these concepts using novel diagrams and a clear analytical framework.

Author: Markus K. Brunnermeier, Ricardo Reis
ISBN-10: 0691223181
ISBN-13: 9780691223186
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/20/2025
Pages: 136
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.32d