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Author
Series
IMF working paper volume WP/06/263
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Series
Incontri di studio volume n. 7
Publisher
G. Giappichelli Editore
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Italiano
Author
Series
IMF working paper volume WP/09/160
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Series
IMF working paper volume WP/06/42
Publisher
International Monetary Fund, IMF Institute
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
In March 2008, Bear Stearns, a swashbuckling eighty-four-year-old financial institution, was forced to sell itself to JPMorgan Chase for an outrageously low price in a deal brokered by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, who was desperately trying to prevent the impending catastrophic market crash. But mere months before, an industry-wide boom had "the Bear" clocking a record high stock price. How did a giant investment bank with $18 billion in cash...