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| Author | : Mark Williams |
| Publisher | : McGraw Hill Professional |
| Total Pages | : 257 |
| Release | : 2010-04-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0071749047 |
Why was Lehman ignored when everyone else was bailed out? A risk advisor for top financial institutions and top B-school professor, Mark Williams explains how uncontrolled risk toppled a 158-year-old institution, using this story as a microcosm to illuminate the interconnection of the global financial system, as well as broader policy implications. This story is told through the eyes of an experienced risk manager and educator in a detailed and engaging way and provides the reader with a complete summary of how a savvy company with sophisticated employees and systems could have gotten it so wrong.
| Author | : Oonagh McDonald |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2015-11-01 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1526100509 |
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) open access license. Using extensive documentary evidence and interviews with former Lehman employees, Oonagh McDonald reveals the decisions that led to Lehman’s collapse, investigates why the government refused a bail-out and whether the implications of this refusal were fully understood. In clear and accessible language she demonstrates both the short and long term effects of Lehman’s collapse.
| Author | : Hal S. Scott |
| Publisher | : MIT Press |
| Total Pages | : 439 |
| Release | : 2016-05-13 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 0262332167 |
An argument that contagion is the most significant risk facing the financial system and that Dodd¬Frank has reduced the government's ability to respond effectively. The Dodd–Frank Act of 2010 was intended to reform financial policies in order to prevent another massive crisis such as the financial meltdown of 2008. Dodd–Frank is largely premised on the diagnosis that connectedness was the major problem in that crisis—that is, that financial institutions were overexposed to one another, resulting in a possible chain reaction of failures. In this book, Hal Scott argues that it is not connectedness but contagion that is the most significant element of systemic risk facing the financial system. Contagion is an indiscriminate run by short-term creditors of financial institutions that can render otherwise solvent institutions insolvent. It poses a serious risk because, as Scott explains, our financial system still depends on approximately $7.4 to $8.2 trillion of runnable and uninsured short-term liabilities, 60 percent of which are held by nonbanks. Scott argues that efforts by the Federal Reserve, the FDIC, and the Treasury to stop the contagion that exploded after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers lessened the economic damage. And yet Congress, spurred by the public's aversion to bailouts, has dramatically weakened the power of the government to respond to contagion, including limitations on the Fed's powers as a lender of last resort. Offering uniquely detailed forensic analyses of the Lehman Brothers and AIG failures, and suggesting alternative regulatory approaches, Scott makes the case that we need to restore and strengthen our weapons for fighting contagion.
| Author | : John Barnshaw |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Financial risk |
| ISBN | : 9781124240534 |
This dissertation links meso-level economic activity to the macroeconomy by focusing on how firm level instability produces broader instability in the financial system. In contrast to previous research that suggests that organizations rarely innovate, take risks, or change strategies, this dissertation utilizes a case study methodology to demonstrate how Lehman Brothers created a variety of financial innovations, took excessive risks, and changed strategies that ultimately led to bankruptcy. The collapse of Lehman Brothers was the largest bankruptcy in United States financial history and triggered broader financial instability that led to a global economic crisis and the current recession. In addition to challenging the notion that firms tend toward stasis and stability, this research also explores how the conventional wisdom of the efficient market hypothesis failed to adequately explain the financial instability following collapse of Lehman Brothers. Using the financial instability hypothesis, this work demonstrates how financial innovations developed by Lehman Brothers amplified risk and instability within the firm and the broader financial system. The work concludes with a network governance model and offers tangible policy solutions to reduce future instability in the financial system.
| Author | : Jackson N Anderson |
| Publisher | : Independently Published |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-11-29 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
The Riveting Tale of Lehman Brothers, Once A Titan of Wall Street Whose Dramatic Ascent and Catastrophic Collapse Played A Pivotal Role in The Global Financial Crisis. On September 15, 2008, a significant event unfolded that had far-reaching consequences. The collapse of Lehman Brothers, a renowned investment bank, marked a significant turning point in the worldwide financial crisis. The once-respected institution lost its reputation due to questionable practices and a lack of responsibility. Their business navigated the challenges of venture capital and weathered the storm of the Great Depression.Through subsequent mergers and acquisitions, Lehman Brothers emerged as one of the leading investment banks in the country. During its downfall, Lehman Brothers emerged as the nation's fourth-largest investment bank, employing approximately 25,000 individuals across the world. However, its origins trace back to a modest dry goods store established by German immigrant Henry Lehman in 1844, situated in Montgomery, Alabama. What led to the unfortunate downfall of Lehman Brothers? Could this outcome be attributed to an unchecked drive for success, an inclination towards taking excessive risks, or merely an unavoidable outcome of a flawed financial system? In this captivating story, we explore the inner workings of Lehman Brothers and its corporate culture, delving into the intricate network of relationships and decisions that led to the downfall of this once prominent investment bank. Even now and in the future, the collapse of Lehman Brothers serves as a powerful reminder that nothing is permanent. The consequences of being too big to fail are significant and long-lasting.
| Author | : Dennis Faber |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 9780198755371 |
This new book analyses the legal and practical issues experienced during the Lehman Brothers litigation, the largest and most complex bankruptcy proceedings in history. By examining the issues the work provides a useful reference source for future large scale and cross-border bankruptcy proceedings of multinational groups. The author team includes experts from the various jurisdictions in which Lehman Brothers was operative, many of whom were involved in the litigation. The authors set out practical solutions to the issues faced, concerning, for example, the use of existing payment and settlement systems for consent solicitation, and filing instructions and insolvency distributions. Economic challenges, such as the valuation of distressed financial instruments, are also considered. Additionally, the book provides a critique of the current law, analysis of the interpretation and scope of core legal principles and makes recommendations for regulatory reform and judicial cooperation. In this book first-hand accounts by key parties in the insolvency proceedings with expertise on the main issues are complemented by the views of selected independent experts to provide the first complete work on this ground-breaking litigation.
| Author | : Mike Adu-Gyamfi |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 29 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : |
The causes of the failure of Lehman Brothers, preventive measures, and recommendations for going forward constitute the subject for discussion in this paper. The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers in 2008 sent shock waves through the entire global banking and financial system across numerous and unexpected transmission channels when the price bubble in the US housing market tied to the subprime mortgage market suddenly burst. Actions, which largely relate to the risk return relationship, bad accounting treatment of financial transactions, and loose risk management policies and strategies at Lehman, led the financial conglomerate to its eventual collapse. Global stock markets, individual and corporate investors, and staff of the Firm and its other related businesses bore the brunt of the financial disaster in the form of huge losses, liquidations, job losses, reduction in asset prices and a subsequent global financial crises which could have been prevented. Strong corporate governance structures, robust risk management policies, and constant, effective monitoring and supervision of financial institutions, especially the larger ones by regulatory bodies are therefore highly recommended to ensure against failure of financial institutions.
| Author | : Kevin Dowd |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2010-04-27 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 047068996X |
An engaging look at how modern finance almost destroyed our global economy Over the last thirty years, capital markets have been restructured through the tenets of modern finance. This has been enormously profitable for the financial services sector. However, these innovations, coupled with unsound risk and regulatory practices have proved disastrous for the global economy. In a clear and accessible style, ex-investment banker and financial journalist Martin Hutchinson, and highly respected academic, Kevin Dowd show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to bring down the world financial system. At the heart of the book is modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices associated with them, and the changes they made in business models and risk management on Wall Street and other major financial centers. Breaks down the events involved in the 2007-08 financial collapse Reveals how botched policy response made a bad situation worse Focuses on lessons that the practice of finance must learn from recent events The Alchemists of Loss will help you to understand how our financial system crashed and show you what it will take to make sure this won't happen again as we move forward.
| Author | : Joseph Tibman |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Bankruptcy |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Charles R. Morris |
| Publisher | : Crown Business |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Financial crises |
| ISBN | : 9780812931730 |
The world seems awash in financial crises. The Asian crisis of 1998, the near-demise of Long Term Capital Management, and the black hole of Russia are just a few of the most recent. Are they the result of greedy speculators, crony capitalism, or the warp speed of the forces of globalization? Can we send in the repairman and get things fixed through the legal and regulatory systems? Or are other causes at work that may be beyond our control? Money, Greed, and Risk is that rare book which, through adroit analysis of both historical and contemporary events and their leading players, lends new insights into the causes of financial turmoil. Charles Morris: Explores the eternal cycle of financial crises: from brilliant innovation to gross excess and inevitable crash, before investors and institutions catch up. Explains why the American financial system grew from a capital-starved backwater in the nineteenth century to one that plays the leading role in the world today. Examines the technological, economic, demographic, and industrial experiences that caused the financial engine to kick into such high gear in the 1980s and 1990s. Shows how the boom-and-bust cycle in early American history helps illuminate recent events in South Asia and Russia. In the process we become more realistic about what to expect during the nascent stages of capitalism and market development everywhere. Explains that globalization is nothing new. The investment system in the nineteenth century was perhaps even more global than the world today. Looks at contemporary financial geniuses--Michael Milken is a good example--and shows that they didn't invent any financial instruments thatnineteenth-century counterparts like Jay Gould hadn't already thought of. There are a handful of books about finance and the financial markets that are substantive enough to provide intellectual grist for sophisticated investors while also providing intriguing explanations of contemporary events that will be of interest to a general audience. Money, Greed, and Risk is one of them. Finance is the plumbing that makes capitalism run. And, like a good plumbing system, finance is invisible when working well. But just as a broken pipe can be a disaster, so too when the financial system breaks and crises and crashes occur. We look to understand the causes and Charles Morris provides unusual insights that bring our understanding to a new level.
