TY  - JOUR
AU  - Gorton,Gary B.
AU  - Metrick,Andrew
TI  - Getting up to Speed on the Financial Crisis:  A One-Weekend-Reader's Guide
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 17778
PY  - 2012
Y2  - January 2012
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17778
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w17778.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Gary B. Gorton
Yale School of Management
135 Prospect Street
P.O. Box 208200
New Haven, CT 06520-8200
Fax: 203/432-8931
E-Mail: Gary.Gorton@yale.edu

Andrew Metrick
Yale School of Management
135 Prospect Street
P.O. Box 208200
New Haven, CT 06520
Tel: 203/432-3069
E-Mail: metrick@yale.edu
AB  - All economists should be conversant with “what happened?” during the financial crisis of 2007-2009.  We select and summarize 16 documents, including academic papers and reports from regulatory and international agencies.  This reading list covers the key facts and mechanisms in the build-up of risk, the panics in short-term-debt markets, the policy reactions, and the real effects of the financial crisis.
ER  -