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THIS TIME IS DIFFERENT

Carmen M. Reinhart & Kenneth S. Rogoff

Subtitle: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, 2009, 463 pgs., index, references, notes, tables, charts

 
 

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Preface

 
 

Part I - Financial Crises: An Operational Primer

 
 

Chapter 1 - Varieties of Crises and Their Dates

 
 

Chapter 2 - Debt Intolerance: The Genesis of Serial Default

 
 

Chapter 3 - A Global Database and Financial Crises with a Long Term View

 
 

Part II - Sovereign External Debt Crises

 
 

Chapter 4 - A Digression on the Theoretical Underpinnings of Debt Crises

 
 

Chapter 5 - Cycles of Sovereign Default on External Debt

 
 

Chapter 6 - External Default through History

 
 

Part III - The Forgotten History of Domestic Debt and Default

 
 

Chapter 7 - The Stylized Facts of Domestic Debt and Default

 
 

Chapter 8 - Domestic Debt: The Missing Link Explaining External Default and High Inflation

 
 

Chapter 9 - Domestic and External Default: Which Is Worse? Who is Senior?

 
 

Part IV - Banking Crises, Inflation, and Currency Crashes

 
 

Chapter 10 - Banking Crises

 
 

Chapter 11 - Default through Debasement: An "Old World Favorite"

 
 

Chapter 12 - Inflation and Modern Currency Crashes

 
 

Part V - The U.S. Subprime Meltdown and the Second Great Contraction

 
 

Chapter 13 - The U. S. Subprime Crisis: An International and Historical Comparison

 
 

Chapter 14 - The Aftermath of Financial Crises

 
 

Chapter 15 - The International Dimensions of the Subprime Crisis: The Results of Contagion and Common Fundamentals?

 
 

Chapter 16 - Composite Measures of Financial Turmoil

 
 

Part VI - What Have We Learned?

 
 

Chapter 17 - Reflections on Early Warnings, Graduation, Policy Responses, and Foibles of Human Nature

 
 

Data Appendixes

 

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