Financial Crash, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances

Ricardo J. Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas

NBER Working Paper No. 14521
Issued in December 2008
NBER Program(s):   EFG   IFM

In this paper we argue that the persistent global imbalances, the subprime crisis, and the volatile oil and asset prices that followed it, are tightly interconnected. They all stem from a global environment where sound and liquid financial assets are in scarce supply.

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