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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis:
Articles and Papers Related to the Financial Crisis

Contents
Purpose...................................................................................................................................................... 2
All Topics ................................................................................................................................................... 3
The Crisis: An Overview ............................................................................................................................ 3
Monetary Policy and the Crisis ................................................................................................................. 5
Historical Perspectives on the Crisis ....................................................................................................... 11
What Caused the Crisis ........................................................................................................................... 13
The Role of Subprime Mortgages ........................................................................................................... 16
Possible Solutions ................................................................................................................................... 17

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Purpose
The financial crisis section of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis website was created to provide the
public with relevant information and resources about the major financial events and policy action during
the financial crisis.
The articles and papers listed here cover aspects of the financial crisis and represent a range of opinions
and analysis. The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis does not endorse the views presented in these articles
or papers.

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All Topics
Bernanke, Ben S. (2011). "Implementing a Macroprudential Approach to Supervision and Regulation."
Speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 47th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and
Competition, Chicago, Illinois.
Raskin, Sarah Bloom (2011). "Putting the Low Road Behind Us." Speech at the 2011 Midwinter Housing
Finance Conference, Park City, Utah.
Tarullo, Daniel K. (2011). "Regulating Systemic Risk." Speech at the Credit Markets Symposium,
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Yellen, Janet L. (2011). "The Federal Reserve's Asset Purchase Program." Speech at the Brimmer Policy
Forum, Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado.
Yellen, Janet L. (2011). "Improving the International Monetary and Financial System." Speech at the
Banque de France International Symposium, Paris, France.
Yellen, Janet L. (2011). "Reaping the Full Benefits of Financial Openness." Speech at the Bank of Finland
200th Anniversary Conference, Helsinki, Finland.
Weber, Axel. (2011). "Challenges for Monetary Policy in EMU." Homer Jones Memorial Lecture, Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.

The Crisis: An Overview
Allen, Franklin and Elena Carletti (2008). "The Role of Liquidity in Financial Crises." Federal Reserve Bank
of Kansas City's Symposium: Maintaining Stability in a Changing Financial System.
Anderson, Richard G. and Charles S. Gascon (2009). "The Commercial Paper Market, the Fed, and the
2007-2009 Financial Crisis." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 91, No. 6.
Asso, Pier Francesco, George A. Kahn, and Robert Leeson (2010). "The Taylor Rule and the Practice of
Central Banking." Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Working Paper, RWP 10-05.
Aubuchon, Craig P. and David C. Wheelock (2009). "The Global Recession." Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis Economic Synopses, No. 22.
Baxter, Thomas C., Jr. (2010). "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties."
Statement before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, United States House of
Representatives.
Baxter, Thomas C. and Sarah J. Dahlgren (2010). "The Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Involvement
with AIG." Joint statement before the Congressional Oversight Panel.
Bernanke, Ben S. (2009). "The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet." Speech at the Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond Credit Markets Symposium, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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Bernanke, Ben S. (2010). "The Supervisory Capital Assessment Program--One Year Later." Speech at the
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 46th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Chicago,
Illinois.
Blanchard, Olivier J. (2009). "The Crisis: Basic Mechanisms, and Appropriate Policies." IMF Working
Paper, Volume 2009, Issue 80.
Bowman, David, Etienne Gagnon, and Mike Leahy (2010). "Interest on Excess Reserves as a Monetary
Policy Instrument: The Experience of Foreign Central Banks." Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System International Finance Discussion Papers, Number 996.
Brunnermeier, Markus K. (2008). "Deciphering the Liquidity and Credit Crunch 2007-08." Journal of
Economic Perspectives, Vol.23, No. 1.
Caballero, Ricardo J. and Pablo Kurlat (2009). "The "Surprising" Origin and Nature of Financial Crises: A
Macroeconomic Policy Proposal." Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Symposium: Financial Stability
and Macroeconomic Policy.
Chari, V. V., Lawrence Christiano and Patrick J. Kehoe (2008). "Facts and Myths about the Financial Crisis
of 2008." Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Working Paper, Working Paper 666.
Cohen-Cole, Ethan, Burcu Duygan-Bump, Jose Fillat and Judit Montoriol-Garriga (2008). "Looking Behind
the Aggregates: A Reply to "Facts and Myths about the Financial Crisis of 2008"." Federal Reserve Bank
of Boston Working Paper, No. QAU08-5.
Dudley, William C. (2009). "Lessons Learned from the Financial Crisis." Remarks at the Eighth Annual BIS
Conference, Basel, Switzerland.
Fender, Ingo and Jacob Gyntelberg (2008). "Overview: Global Financial Crisis Spurs Unprecedented
Policy Actions." BIS Quarterly Review, December 2008.
Furlong, Frederick and Simon Kwan (2009). "Financial Turmoil and the Economy." Federal Reserve Bank
of San Francisco 2008 Annual Report.
Garriga, Carlos (2009). "Lending Standards in Mortgage Markets." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Economic Synopses, No. 23.
Gorton, Gary B. (2008). "The Panic of 2007." Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Symposium:
Maintaining Stability in a Changing Financial System.
Ivashina, Victoria and David Scharfstein (2008). "Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008." EFA
2009 Bergen Meetings Paper, SSRN.
Kashyap, Anil K., Raghuram Rajan and Jeremy Stein (2008). "The Global Roots of the Current Financial
Crisis and its Implications for Regulations." 5th ECB Central Banking Conference.
Kliesen, Kevin L. (2009). "Putting the Financial Crisis and Lending Activity in a Broader Context." Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 11.
Kocherlakota, Narayana R. (2010). "Economic Recovery and Balance Sheet Normalization." Speech
before the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce, Bloomington, Minnesota.
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Kroszner, Randall S. and William Melick (2009). "The Response of the Federal Reserve to the Recent
Banking and Financial Crisis." Chicago Booth School of Business Working Paper.
Landier, Augustin and Kenichi Ueda (2009). "The Economics of Bank Restructuring: Understanding the
Options." IMF Staff Position Note, SPN/09/12.
Mizen, Paul (2008). "The Credit Crunch of 2007-2008: A Discussion of the Background, Market Reactions,
and Policy Responses." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 90, No. 5.
Sack, Brian P. (2010). "Preparing for a Smooth (Eventual) Exit." Remarks at the National Association for
Business Economics Policy Conference, Arlington, Virginia.
Sarkar, Asani (2009). "Liquidity Risk, Credit Risk, and the Federal Reserve’s Responses to the Crisis."
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, Number 389.
Stackhouse, Julie L. (2009). "The Economic Crisis: Understanding the Tools in Place to “Fix” Financial
Markets." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Educational Resources Presentation.
Steelman, Aaron and John A. Weinberg (2009). "The Financial Crisis: Toward an Explanation and Policy
Response." Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond 2008 Annual Report.
Tarullo, Daniel K. (2010). "Toward an Effective Resolution Regime for Large Financial Institutions."
Remarks at the Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century, Armonk, New York.
Wang, Pengfei and Yi Wen (2009). "Speculative Bubbles and Financial Crisis." Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis Working Paper, 2009-029A.
Yellen, Janet L. (2009). "A Minsky Meltdown: Lessons for Central Bankers." Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco Economic Letter, 2009-15.

Monetary Policy and the Crisis
Acharya, Viral V., João A. C. Santos, and Tanju Yorulmazer (2010). "Systemic Risk and Deposit Insurance
Premiums." Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, Volume 16, Number 2.
Adrian, Tobias, Karin Kimbrough, and Dina Marchioni (2010). "The Federal Reserve’s Commercial Paper
Funding Facility." Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, Number 423.
Adrian, Tobias and Hyun Song Shin (2008). "Financial Intermediaries, Financial Stability and Monetary
Policy." Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Symposium: Maintaining Stability in a Changing Financial
System.
Adrian, Tobias and Hyun Song Shin (2009). "The Shadow Banking System: Implications for Financial
Regulation." Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Report, Number 382.
Alvarez, Scott G. (2010). "Government Assistance to AIG." Testimony before the Congressional Oversight
Panel, U.S. Congress.
Anderson, Richard G. (2009). "Bankers Acceptances and Unconventional Monetary Policy: FAQs."
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 14.

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Anderson, Richard G. (2009). "Bankers’ Acceptances: Yesterday’s Instrument to Restart Today's Credit
Markets?" Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 5.
Anderson, Richard G. (2009). "The Curious Case of the U.S. Monetary Base." Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis Regional Economist, Volume 13, Number 3.
Anderson, Richard G. (2008). "Paying Interest on Deposits at Federal Reserve Banks." Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 30.
Armantier, Olivier, Sandra Krieger and James McAndrews (2008). "The Federal Reserve's Term Auction
Facility." Federal Reserve Bank of New York Current Issues in Economics and Finance, Volume 14,
Number 5.
Artuç, Erhan and Selva Demiralp (2010). "Provision of Liquidity through the Primary Credit Facility during
the Financial Crisis: A Structural Analysis." Federal Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review,
Volume 16, Number 2.
Asso, Pier Francesco, George A. Kahn, and Robert Leeson (2010). "The Taylor Rule and the Practice of
Central Banking." Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Working Paper, RWP 10-05.
Aubuchon, Craig P. (2009). "The Fed's Response to the Credit Crunch." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Economic Synopses, No. 6.
Auerbach, Alan J. and William G. Gale (2009). "Activist Fiscal Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity."
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Symposium: Financial Stability and Macroeconomic Policy.
Bech, Morten L. and Elizabeth Klee (2009). "The Mechanics of a Graceful Exit: Interest on Reserves and
Segmentation in the Federal Funds Market." Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, Number
416.
Bernanke, Ben S. (2010). "Economic Policy: Lessons from History." Remarks at the 43rd Annual Alexander
Hamilton Awards Dinner, Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, Washington, D.C.
Bernanke, Ben S. (2010). "Federal Reserve's Exit Strategy." Statement before the Committee on Financial
Services, U.S. House of Representatives.
Bernanke, Ben S. (2008). "Housing, Mortgage Markets, and Foreclosures.” Remarks at the Federal
Reserve System Conference on Housing and Mortgage Markets, Washington, D.C.
Bernanke, Ben S. (2009). "Reflections on a Year of Crisis." Remarks at the Federal Reserve Bank of
Kansas City Symposium: Financial Stability and Macroeconomic Policy, Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
Bernanke, Ben S. (2009). "The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet: An Update." Remarks at the Federal
Reserve Board Conference on Key Developments in Monetary Economics, Washington, D.C.
Bernanke, Ben S. (2010). "The Supervisory Capital Assessment Program--One Year Later." Speech at the
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 46th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, Chicago,
Illinois.
Blanchard, Olivier, Giovanni Dell’Ariccia, and Paolo Mauro (2010). "Rethinking Macroeconomic Policy."
IMF Staff Position Note, SPN/10/03.
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Blinder, Alan S. (2010). "Quantitative Easing: Entrance and Exit Strategies." Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis Homer Jones Memorial Lecture.
Buiter, Willem H. (2008). "Central Banks and Financial Crises." Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's
Symposium: Maintaining Stability in a Changing Financial System.
Bullard, James B. (2009). "The Fed as Lender of Last Resort." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Regional
Economist, Vol. 17, No. 1.
Bullard, James B. (2009). "Three Funerals and a Wedding." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol.
91, No. 1.
Bullard, James (2010). "Three Lessons for Monetary Policy from the Panic of 2008." Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 92, No. 3.
Bullard, James, Christopher J. Neely, and David C. Wheelock (2009). "Systemic Risk and the Financial
Crisis: A Primer." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 91, No. 5.
Caballero, Ricardo J. and Pablo Kurlat (2009). "The "Surprising" Origin and Nature of Financial Crises: A
Macroeconomic Policy Proposal." Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Symposium: Financial Stability
and Macroeconomic Policy.
Cecchetti, Stephen G. (2008). "Crisis and Responses: The Federal Reserve and the Financial Crisis of
2007-08." NBER Working Paper No. 14134.
Chailloux, Alexandre, Simon Gray, Ulrich Klüh, Seiichi Shimizu, and Peter Stella (2008). "Central Bank
Response to the 2007-08 Financial Market Turbulence: Experiences and Lessons Drawn." IMF Working
Paper, Volume 2008, Issue 210.
Checki, Terrence J. (2009). "Beyond the Crisis: Reflections on the Challenges." Remarks at the Foreign
Policy Association Corporate Dinner, New York City.
Christensen, Jens H. E., Jose A. Lopez, and Glenn D. Rudebusch (2009). "Do Central Bank Liquidity
Facilities Affect Interbank Lending Rates?" Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Working Paper, WP
2009-13.
Contessi, Silvio and Hoda El-Ghazaly (2009). "Commercial Bank Lending Data during the Crisis: Handle
with Care." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 36.
Crotty, James (2008). "Structural Causes of the Global Financial Crisis: A Critical Assessment of the ‘New
Financial Architecture’." University of Massachusetts Amherst Working Paper, Number 2008-14.
Cúrdia, Vasco and Michael Woodford (2009). "Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy."
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, Number 404.
Demyanyk, Yuliya and Kent Cherny (2009). "Bank Exposure to Commercial Real Estate." Federal Reserve
Bank of Cleveland Economic Trends, August 2009.
Demyanyk, Yuliya and Iftekhar Hasan (2009). "Financial Crises and Bank Failures: A Review of Prediction
Methods." Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Working Paper, WP 09-04R.

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Dudley, William C. (2010). "Asset Bubbles and the Implications for Central Bank Policy." Remarks at the
Economic Club of New York, New York City.
Dudley, William C. (2010). "Lessons of the Crisis: The Implications for Regulatory Reform." Remarks at
the Partnership for New York City Discussion, New York City.
Dudley, William C. (2009). "More Lessons from the Crisis." Remarks at the Center for Economic Policy
Studies (CEPS) Symposium, Princeton, New Jersey.
Dudley, William C. (2009). "The Economic Outlook and the Fed's Balance Sheet: The Issue of "How"
versus "When"." Remarks at the Association for a Better New York Breakfast Meeting, Grand Hyatt, New
York.
Dudley, William C. (2010). "The Longer-Term Challenges Ahead." Remarks at the Council of Society
Business Economists Annual Dinner, London, United Kingdom.
Dudley, William C. (2010). "The U.S. Financial System: Where We Have Been, Where We Are and Where
We Need to Go." Remarks at the Reserve Bank of Australia’s 50th Anniversary Symposium, Sydney,
Australia.
Duke, Elizabeth A. (2010). "Moving Beyond the Financial Crisis." Remarks at the Consumer Bankers
Association Annual Conference, Hollywood, Florida.
Eichengreen, Barry, Ashoka Mody, Milan Nedeljkovic, and Lucio Sarno (2009). "How the Subprime Crisis
Went Global: Evidence from Bank Credit Default Swap Spreads." NBER Working Paper No. 14904.
Ergungor, O. Emre and Kent Cherny (2009). "Effective Practices in Crisis Resolution and the Case of
Sweden." Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Economic Commentary, February 2009.
Fawley, Brett W. and Luciana Juvenal (2010). "Monetary Policy and Asset Prices." Federal Reserve Bank
of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 37.
Feldman, Ron. "Interview with Raghuram Rajan." Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis The Region,
December 2009.
Fleming, Michael J., Warren B. Hrung and Frank M. Keane (2009). "The Term Securities Lending Facility:
Origin, Design, and Effects." Federal Reserve Bank of New York Current Issues in Economics and Finance,
Volume 15, Number 2.
Furlong, Frederick and Simon Kwan (2009). "Financial Turmoil and the Economy." Federal Reserve Bank
of San Francisco 2008 Annual Report.
Gascon, Charles S. (2009). "Federal Reserve Assets: Understanding the Pieces of the Pie." Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 13.
Gavin, William T. (2009). "More Money: Understanding Recent Changes in the Monetary Base." Federal
Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 91, No. 2.
Gerlach-Kristen, Petra (2010). "The Dependence of the Financial System on Central Bank and
Government Support." BIS Quarterly Review, March 2010.

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Glasserman, Paul and Zhenyu Wang (2009). "Valuing the Treasury’s Capital Assistance Program." Federal
Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, Number 413.
Gorton, Gary (2010). "Questions and Answers about the Financial Crisis." Prepared testimony for the
U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Guidolin, Massimo and Yu Man Tam (2009). "Is the Financial Crisis Over? A Yield Spread Perspective."
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 40.
Hart, Oliver and Luigi Zingales (2009). "How to Avoid a New Financial Crisis." University of Chicago Booth
School of Business Working Paper.
Hoenig, Thomas M., Charles S. Morris, and Kenneth Spong (2009). "Resolution Process for Financial
Companies that Pose Systemic Risk to the Financial System and Overall Economy." Federal Reserve Bank
of Kansas City.
Huang, Xin, Hao Zhou, and Haibin Zhu (2009). "A Framework for Assessing the Systemic Risk of Major
Financial Institutions." Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Finance and Economics
Discussion Series, 2009-37.
International Monetary Fund (2010). "United States: Financial System Stability Assessment."
International Monetary Fund, IMF Country Report No. 10/247.
Kamin, Steven B. and Laurie Pounder DeMarco (2010). "How Did a Domestic Housing Slump Turn into a
Global Financial Crisis?" Board of Governors International Finance Discussion Papers, Number 994.
Kohn, Donald L. (2009). "Central Bank Exit Policies." Remarks at the Shadow Open Market Committee
Meeting at the Cato Institute, Washington, D.C.
Kohn, Donald L. (2010). "Focusing on Bank Interest Rate Risk Exposure." Remarks at the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation’s Symposium on Interest Rate Risk Management, Arlington, Virginia.
Kohn, Donald L. (2010). "Monetary Policy in the Crisis: Past, Present, and Future." Remarks at the
Brimmer Policy Forum, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Kohn, Donald L. (2009). "Policies to Bring Us Out of the Financial Crisis and Recession." Remarks at the
Forum on Great Decisions in the Economic Crisis, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio.
Kuttner, Kenneth N. (2008). "The Federal Reserve as Lender of Last Resort during the Panic of 2008."
Committee on Capital Markets Regulation Report.
Levine, Ross (2010). "An Autopsy of the U.S. Financial System: Accident, Suicide, or Negligent
Homicide?" Brown University Working Paper.
Mankiw, N. Gregory (2010). "Questions about Fiscal Policy: Implications from the Financial Crisis of
2008-2009." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 92, No. 3.
McAndrews, James, Asani Sarkar and Zhenyu Wang (2008). "The Effect of the Term Auction Facility on
the London Inter-Bank Offered Rate." Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, Number 335.

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Mishkin, Frederic S. (2009). "Is Monetary Policy Effective During Financial Crises?" NBER Working Paper
No. 14678.
Nadauld, Taylor D. and Shane M. Sherlund (2009). "The Role of the Securitization Process in the
Expansion of Subprime Credit." Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Finance and
Economics Discussion Series, 2009-28.
Neely, Christopher J. (2010). "“How Central Should the Central Bank Be?” A Comment." Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 10.
Obstfeld, Maurice, Jay C. Shambaugh and Alan M. Taylor (2008). "Financial Instability, Reserves, and
Central Bank Swap Lines in the Panic of 2008." AEA 2009 Annual Meeting Conference Paper.
Potter, Simon M. (2010). "Some Observations and Lessons from the Crisis." Remarks at the Third Annual
Connecticut Bank and Trust Company Economic Outlook Breakfast, Hartford, Connecticut.
Pozsar, Zoltan, Tobias Adrian, Adam Ashcraft, and Hayley Boesky (2010). "Shadow Banking." Federal
Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, Number 458.
Raskin, Sarah Bloom (2011). "Putting the Low Road Behind Us." Speech at the 2011 Midwinter Housing
Finance Conference, Park City, Utah.
Rudebusch, Glen D. (2009). "Unconventional Monetary Policy Actions." Federal Reserve Bank of San
Francisco FedViews.
Sengupta, Rajdeep (2010). "Alt-A: The Forgotten Segment of the Mortgage Market." Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 92, No. 1.
Swagel, Phillip (2009). "The Financial Crisis: An Inside View." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, No.
1.
Shirakawa, Masaaki (2009). "International Policy Response to the Financial Crisis." Federal Reserve Bank
of Kansas City Symposium: Financial Stability and Macroeconomic Policy.
Sarkar, Asani (2009). "Liquidity Risk, Credit Risk, and the Federal Reserve’s Responses to the Crisis."
Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, Number 389.
Tarullo, Daniel K. (2009). "Confronting Too Big to Fail." Remarks to the Exchequer Club, Washington, D.C.
Tarullo, Daniel K. (2010). "Toward an Effective Resolution Regime for Large Financial Institutions."
Remarks at the Symposium on Building the Financial System of the 21st Century, Armonk, New York.
Taylor, John B. and John C. Williams (2008). "A Black Swan in the Money Market." Federal Reserve Bank
of San Francisco Working Paper, WP 2008-04.
Taylor, John B. and John C. Williams (2008). "Further Results on a Black Swan in the Money Market."
Stanford University Working Paper.
Taylor, John B. (2010). "Getting Back on Track: Macroeconomic Policy Lessons from the Financial Crisis."
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 92, No. 3.

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Taylor, John B. (2009). "Monetary Policy and the Recent Extraordinary Measures Taken by the Federal
Reserve." Testimony before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives.
Thornton, Daniel (2009). "The Fed, Liquidity, and Credit Allocation." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Review, Vol. 91, No. 1.
Thornton, Daniel (2008). "Walter Bagehot, the Discount Window, and TAF." Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis Economic Synopses, No. 27.
Thornton, Daniel L. (2009). "Would Quantitative Easing Sooner Have Tempered the Financial Crisis and
Economic Recession?" Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 37.
Volcker, Paul A. (2010). "The Role of the Federal Reserve in a New Financial Order." Remarks before the
Economic Club of New York, New York City.
Wheelock, David C. (2009). "How Not to Reduce Excess Reserves." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Economic Synopses, No. 38.
Wheelock, David C. (2010). "Lessons Learned? Comparing the Federal Reserve’s Responses to the Crises
of 1929-1933 and 2007-2009." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 92, No. 2.
White, William R. (2009). "Should Monetary Policy “Lean or Clean”?" Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper No. 34.
Willardson, Niel (2008). "Actions to Restore Financial Stability: A Summary of Recent Federal Reserve
Initiatives." Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis The Region, December 2008.
Williams, John C. (2009). "The Risk of Deflation." Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter,
2009-12.
Wu, Tao (2008). "On the Effectiveness of the Federal Reserve's New Liquidity Facilities." Federal Reserve
Bank of Dallas Working Paper, 0808.
Yellen, Janet L. (2009). "A View of the Economic Crisis and the Federal Reserve’s Response." Federal
Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter, 2009-22.
Yellen, Janet L. (2010). "Macroprudential Supervision and Monetary Policy in the Post-crisis World."
Remarks at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Business Economics, Denver, Colorado.
Yellen, Janet L. (2011). "Reaping the Full Benefits of Financial Openness." Speech at the Bank of Finland
200th Anniversary Conference, Helsinki, Finland.

Historical Perspectives on the Crisis
Adrian, Tobias, Karin Kimbrough, and Dina Marchioni (2010). "The Federal Reserve’s Commercial Paper
Funding Facility." Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, Number 423.
Anderson, Richard G. (2009). "Bankers’ Acceptances: Yesterday’s Instrument to Restart Today's Credit
Markets?" Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 5.
Aubuchon, Craig P. and David C. Wheelock (2009). "The Global Recession." Federal Reserve Bank of St.
Louis Economic Synopses, No. 22.
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Barro, Robert J. and José F. Ursúa (2009). "Stock-Market Crashes and Depressions." NBER Working Paper
No. 14760.
Bordo, Michael D. (2008). "An Historical Perspective on the Crisis of 2007-2008." Remarks prepared for
the Central Bank of Chile Twelfth Annual Conference on Financial Stability, Monetary Policy and Central
Banking, Santiago, Chile. NBER Working Paper No. 14569.
Bowman, David, Etienne Gagnon, and Mike Leahy (2010). "Interest on Excess Reserves as a Monetary
Policy Instrument: The Experience of Foreign Central Banks." Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System International Finance Discussion Papers, Number 996.
Chomsisengphet, Souphala and Anthony Pennington-Cross (2006). "The Evolution of the Subprime
Mortgage Market." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review, Vol. 88, No. 1.
Collyns, Charles (2008). "The Crisis Through the Lens of History." International Monetary Fund Finance
and Development, Volume 45, Number 4.
Dudley, William C. (2009). "Lessons Learned from the Financial Crisis." Remarks at the Eighth Annual BIS
Conference, Basel, Switzerland.
Dudley, William C. (2009). "More Lessons from the Crisis." Remarks at the Center for Economic Policy
Studies (CEPS) Symposium, Princeton, New Jersey.
Dudley, William C. (2010). "The Longer-Term Challenges Ahead." Remarks at the Council of Society
Business Economists Annual Dinner, London, United Kingdom.
Eichengreen, Barry (2008). "The Global Credit Crisis as History." University of California Berkeley Policy
Paper.
Eichner, Matthew J., Donald L. Kohn, and Michael G. Palumbo (2010). "Financial Statistics for the United
States and the Crisis: What Did They Get Right, What Did They Miss, and How Should They Change?"
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Finance and Economics Discussion Series, 2010-20.
Fernández de Córdoba, Gonzalo and Timothy J. Kehoe (2009). "The Current Financial Crisis: What Should
We Learn from the Great Depressions of the Twentieth Century?" Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Staff Report 421.
Fisher, Richard W. (2010). "Where We Go from Here: The Crisis and Beyond." Remarks before the Eller
College of Management, University of Arizona.
Gorton, Gary (2010). "Questions and Answers about the Financial Crisis." Prepared testimony for the
U.S. Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission.
Gorton, Gary B. (2009). "Slapped in the Face by the Invisible Hand: Banking and the Panic of 2007."
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta 2009 Financial Markets Conference: Financial Innovation and Crisis.
Kohn, Donald L. (2010). "Monetary Policy in the Crisis: Past, Present, and Future." Remarks at the
Brimmer Policy Forum, American Economic Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia.
Kroszner, Randall S. and William Melick (2009). "The Response of the Federal Reserve to the Recent
Banking and Financial Crisis." Chicago Booth School of Business Working Paper.
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Laeven, Luc and Fabian Valencia (2008). "Systemic Banking Crisis: A New Database." IMF Working Paper,
Volume 2008, Issue 224.
Reinhart, Carmen M. and Kenneth S. Rogoff (2008). "Banking Crises: An Equal Opportunity Menace."
NBER Working Paper No. 14587.
Reinhart, Carmen and Kenneth S. Rogoff (2009). "The Aftermath of Financial Crises." NBER Working
Paper No. 14656.
Reinhart, Carmen M. and Kenneth S. Rogoff (2008). "This Time is Different: A Panoramic View of Eight
Centuries of Financial Crises." NBER Working Paper No. 13882.
Walsh, Carl E. (2009). "Using Monetary Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity." Federal Reserve Bank of
Kansas City Symposium: Financial Stability and Macroeconomic Policy.

What Caused the Crisis
Ashcraft, Adam B. and Til Schuermann (2008). "Understanding the Securitization of Subprime Mortgage
Credit." Federal Reserve Bank of New York Staff Reports, Number 318.
Banternghansa, Chanont and Adrian Peralta-Alva (2009). "Has the Recent Real Estate Bubble Biased the
Output Gap?" Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 45.
Baxter, Thomas C., Jr. (2010). "Factors Affecting Efforts to Limit Payments to AIG Counterparties."
Statement before the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, United States House of
Representatives.
Bernanke, Ben S. (2010). "Monetary Policy and the Housing Bubble." Remarks at the Annual Meeting of
the American Economic Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
Bernanke, Ben S. (2009). "The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet: An Update." Remarks at the Federal
Reserve Board Conference on Key Developments in Monetary Economics, Washington, D.C.
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Blinder, Alan S. (2010). "Quantitative Easing: Entrance and Exit Strategies." Federal Reserve Bank of St.
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Calomiris, Charles W. (2008). "The Subprime Turmoil: What's Old, What's New, and What's Next."
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Symposium: Maintaining Stability in a Changing Financial System.
Cecchetti, Stephen G. and Piti Disyatat (2009). "Central Bank Tools and Liquidity Shortages." Federal
Reserve Bank of New York Economic Policy Review, Volume 16, Number 1.
Cecchetti, Stephen G., Marion Kohler and Christian Upper (2009). "Financial Crises and Economic
Activity." Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Symposium: Financial Stability and Macroeconomic Policy.

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Checki, Terrence J. (2009). "Beyond the Crisis: Reflections on the Challenges." Remarks at the Foreign
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Demyanyk, Yuliya and Kent Cherny (2009). "Bank Exposure to Commercial Real Estate." Federal Reserve
Bank of Cleveland Economic Trends, August 2009.
Demyanyk, Yuliya (2008). "Did Credit Scores Predict the Subprime Crisis?" Federal Reserve Bank of St.
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Kashyap, Anil K., Raghuram G. Rajan and Jeremy C. Stein (2008). "Rethinking Capital Regulation." Federal
Reserve Bank of Kansas City's Symposium: Maintaining Stability in a Changing Financial System.

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Kregel, Jan (2008). "Changes in the U.S. Financial System and the Subprime Crisis." Levy Economics
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Mayer, Chris, Karen Pence and Shane M. Sherlund. "The Rise in Mortgage Defaults." Board of Governors
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Mitigation." Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland Policy Discussion Paper Number 27.

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Wachter, Susan M., Andrey D. Pavlov, and Zoltan Pozsar (2008). "Subprime Lending and Real Estate
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Boston Public Policy Discussion Paper, No. 08-2.

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Garriga, Carlos (2009). "Lending Standards in Mortgage Markets." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Economic Synopses, No. 23.
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Hirtle, Beverly, Til Schuermann, and Kevin Stiroh. "Macroprudential Supervision of Financial Institutions:
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Possible Solutions
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 14.

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Anderson, Richard G. (2009). "Bankers’ Acceptances: Yesterday’s Instrument to Restart Today's Credit
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Bank Central Banking Conference, Frankfurt, Germany.

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Bernanke, Ben S. (2009). "Reflections on a Year of Crisis." Remarks at the Federal Reserve Bank of
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the Federal Reserve System Finance and Economics Discussion Series, 2011-16.
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with Care." Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Economic Synopses, No. 36.

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Crotty, James (2008). "Structural Causes of the Global Financial Crisis: A Critical Assessment of the ‘New
Financial Architecture’." University of Massachusetts Amherst Working Paper, Number 2008-14.
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College of Management, University of Arizona.

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Gärtner, Manfred and Florian Jung (2009). "The Macroeconomics of Financial Crises: How Risk
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Kohn, Donald L. (2010). "Focusing on Bank Interest Rate Risk Exposure." Remarks at the Federal Deposit
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