Apocalypse then: The Evolution of the North Atlantic Economy and the Global Crisis
September 1, 2011
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Summary
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.
Subject: Banking, Bond yields, Bonds, Commercial banks, Financial institutions, Financial sector policy and analysis, Financial services, Investment banking, Spillovers
Keywords: bank, BIS banking data, Bond yields, Bonds, Commercial banks, Europe, Financial linkages, financial market, financial regulation, funding, funding cost, funding market, Global, IMF staff calculation, Investment banking, market, market risk premiums, North America, shock to US, spillovers, Western Europe, wholesale funding, WP
Pages:
36
Volume:
2011
DOI:
Issue:
212
Series:
Working Paper No. 2011/212
Stock No:
WPIEA2011212
ISBN:
9781463902308
ISSN:
1018-5941
