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by Maya Bacache-Beauvallet [24-10-2008]
The crisis facing the world since 2008 still poses many puzzles. How did we get here, so that mechanisms seem relatively simple and could have been anticipated? This crisis does mark the failed monetary policies of the 1980s and is this the return of Keynesian stimulus package? The Paris School of Economics organized a great seminar involving eight specialists of the crisis, and academic professionals to inform the debate. Video clips.
elements of the financial crisis began to be known: the search for home ownership, reckless lending to households not creditworthy, securitization and distribution in the economy riskier loans or insolvent, the market downturn U.S. housing and snowball effect of lack of trust between financial officers and in particular among banks and interbank lending drying up of credit in the economy. The crisis facing the world since 2008 still poses many puzzles: mechanisms seem relatively simple therefore anticipated, then why did we get here? This crisis is comparable to that of 1929 or this Does specificities? Brand Does the failure of the monetary policies of the 1980s and in particular the independence of the central bank and its purpose? What are the ways of resolving the crisis and assists does one return of Keynesian stimulus package? To inform the debate, the Paris School of Economics organized a seminar bringing together eight outstanding specialists of the crisis, and academic professionals.
The financial crisis and the future of the financial system , Organized at the Paris School of Economics October 14, 2008.
Summary of interventions:
Bourguigon François, Paris School of Economics (EEP)
David Naude , Deutsche Bank
Fabrizio Coricelli , Paris 1, CEPR and CES
Andre Orlean , EHESS and PSE
Gunther Capelle-Blancard , Paris 1, CES
Paul Besson, Trading in Hedge Fund Industry
Gabrielle Demange, EHESS and EEP
Olivier Godechot , MHC
Philippe Martin, Paris 1, CEPR and CES.
Bourguigon François, Paris School of Economics (EEP)
David Naude (Deutsche Bank)
Fabrizio Coricelli (Paris 1, CEPR and CES)
Andre Orlean (EHESS and PSE)
Gunther Cappelle-Blancard (Paris 1,CES)
Paul Besson (Trading in Hedge Fund Industry)
Gabrielle Demange (EEP et EHESS)
Olivier Godechot (CMH)
Philippe Martin (Paris 1, CEPR and CES)
Policy Perspectives on the Financial Crisis
by Bruno Bernardi [17-10-2008]
The unfolding financial crisis and attempts to stop it have led to the emergence of a new theme: we are witnessing, divine surprise for some, curse for others, the return of the state. Bruno Bernardi wondered if this idea is not an illusion, behind which he would discern the changes under way: a new step towards the absorption of the market or an overall reconfiguration of our historical and political horizon?
In less than a year, so-called subprime crisis - these risky mortgages that have proliferated in recent years United States - has spread (by the process of fragmentation and resale of credit called securitization ) to the entire global financial system. The crisis of confidence that has resulted has endangered the existence of many leading banks, disorganized and dried up the credit market, caused a collapse in equity markets, suggesting a recession on a global scale. Under the financial crisis seems to be emerging a global economic crisis. At the heart of this turmoil, the market turned to dismay political institutions as a last resort before the debacle. States, directly off liquidity providers, credit from banks, guarantees to depositors and, more directly, by entering the capital of large financial groups, have "taken the hand." These measures will be effective, at least to mitigate the effects of the current crisis? They will avoid a depression? These are questions almost open and that theoretically belong to the essence of economics.
However, we can address these events from another angle, the more directly political. we not witnessing a dramatic shift in the dominant representations of what must be, in general, social organization?
Recent decades have seen ramp up the idea that the market, by its own dynamics and balances that helps train, was by definition the backbone of the whole of physical organization of society and the state as the political function attached to it, should only play a limited role, matters, in any case he had no legitimacy as an economic agent. This groundswell that has been called conservative revolution of or neoliberal wave , was first attached to the names of Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan. We know the famous phrase of the latter, delivered during his inaugural address, January 20, 1981: "The State is not the solution to our problem, government is the problem" [ a ].
Three decades later, one can see without an ironic perplexity the heirs of Reagan and Thatcher, the singers of all - the market, redefining the scope of public policies (the shrink), turn into a few days or a few hours, heralds of the political decision, defenders of the state contractor, and rely heavily on measures of modesty called nationalization, nationalization would be when the right word .
More fundamentally, many believe we are at a turning point in thinking the relationship between economics and politics, State and market. Filling some, horrifying to others, we would see after a long hiatus, the return of the state. But before we confirm or disprove this reversal of perspective, to applaud or condemn, it is not necessary, taking a step back, examine the idea of a return of the state?
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figures Unedic last June were too optimistic. Assuming a decrease in the number of unemployed in 2008 (80,000), unemployment insurance had not been right and now seriously reviewing its forecasts. Tuesday Unedic unveiled its latest estimates. Unemployment insurance provides for 46,000 more unemployed in 2008 and an accumulated deficit to 5.09 billion euros at year end. The cause of these new figures, the assumptions of job creation (43 000 today against 119,000 in June) and economic growth (1% against 1.7% three months), both revised downward.
One explanation for this rise in unemployment: On the website of Le Monde:
Nicolas Sarkozy, this afternoon at the Elysee Palace, after the council of ministers. (Reuters)
Berlin at the bedside of banks and investors. In the wake of a meeting of the Eurogroup, Germany must now present its own rescue plan expected volume of 470 billion euros.
Berlin: a plan of 470 billion euros
And during that time in London:
"In terms of nationalization of the financial system, the country hit the fastest, determines the highest level on which the others are bound to follow, "said Paul Jorion. But Gordon Brown there really is a bold, or more prosaically, an essential realism to a more than worse? In this case, would it be in Because of this other form of "special relationship" between London and its former colony qu'entretiennent also the City and Wall Street or much of a position of weakness that would be common to European banks? Open questions but answers potentially ruinous.
By Paul Jorion, October 11, 2008
long time ago - at the speed which will now things on 14 July, I wrote in America has changed ... same if she does not know yet : "To Uncle Sam, that changes everything: last night, the U.S. toppled the liberal social democracy."
America still did not know three months ago and she did not even know it yet today but it will maybe next week - if my tubes are not punctured. The process goes very quickly and even accelerating, and the reason is: it is the boldest is the ringleader.
What has occurred in recent days is that in terms of nationalization of the financial system, the country is most striking quickly determines the highest level on which the others are bound to follow: When Ireland guaranteed all deposits, Britain should follow, lest all his bank immediately siphoned to Ireland, but to do it has to go further in the nationalization as anyone else, automatically setting the new standard for those who do not want to be left behind in the new landscape : Competing for the United States, for Germany, which had sworn to high heaven last week that it would not, for the Benelux, the business Fortis and Dexia have led on this path, for Spain who just align with the Great Britain, and of course also for France, which still does not suspect anything - even if you work hard maybe this weekend at the Ministry of Finance.
I regularly denounces the belief in market self-regulation but this does not mean that there are no effects of self-organization in the financial system and training in the path of nationalization the boldest that we witness now, is a prime example.
Paul Jorion, sociologist and anthropologist, has worked in the past ten years in the U.S. banking industry as a specialist in price formation. He recently published implosion. Finance economy cons (Fayard: 2008) and Towards crisis of American capitalism? (La Découverte, 2007).
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D learly, there is a crisis and crisis, emergency and emergency, billions and billions. This is the finding today, bitter, those years are appealing for donations to solve the problem of world hunger. Thus
François Danel, the executive director of Action against hunger, "said surprised" to see the ability to lift a few days $ 700 billion (517 billion euros) in the United States, and hundreds billion in Europe, then we encounter the greatest difficulties in finding funds for children dying of hunger. " And remember the words of the Swiss sociologist Jean Ziegler, former UN rapporteur for the Right to Food: "A child dies of hunger today is a child murdered."
L he Council of Economic Analysis (CAE) is not cold in his eyes in a financial crisis, he advocated to develop the mortgage in France, in a report on middle-class housing, released Thursday, October 9.
This recommendation will inevitably be debated, because the storm that devastated the financial markets for several weeks is born of the subprime market, these risky mortgages granted unfettered by U.S. banks. "