TY  - JOUR
AU  - Diamond,Douglas W.
AU  - Rajan,Raghuram
TI  - The Credit Crisis: Conjectures about Causes and Remedies
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 14739
PY  - 2009
Y2  - February 2009
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14739
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w14739.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Douglas W. Diamond
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
5807 S Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-7283
Fax: 773/834-9134
E-Mail: douglas.diamond@chicagobooth.edu

Raghuram Rajan
Booth School of Business
University of Chicago
5807 South Woodlawn Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
Tel: 773/702-4437
Fax: 773/702-0458
E-Mail: raghuram.rajan@ChicagoBooth.edu
AB  - 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.
ER  -