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Hyun Song Shin is one of the leading scholars on financial stability in the world. This book provides a very accessible summary of this work. It is essential reading for all academics and practitioners interested in financial crises. * Franklin Allen, Professor of Finance and Economics and Executive Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London * This book is a must-read for students, scholars and policy makers who would like to decipher the subprime crisis. Hyun Shin has an extraordinary talent for designing simple models that explain complicated phenomena. * Jean Charles Rochet, Professor of Economics, Toulouse School of Economics (TSE) * In the Great Recession, the world has looked for leading economists to offer a new and better understanding of macroeconomic instability, as Keynes did in the Great Depression. In this book, Hyun Song Shin delivers what was needed. Step by step, he develops a new comprehensive understanding of how macroeconomic booms and busts can be derived from microeconomic forces in the banking system. This book should be recognized as a major contribution to macroeconomic theory * Roger Myerson, Nobel Laureate in Economics 2007, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor Department of Economics, University of Chicago *

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Hyun Song Shin is Economic Adviser and Head of Research at the Bank for International Settlements. Before joining the BIS, he was the Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University. He is a leading exponent of financial booms and crises, and has been a leading figure in the policy debates during the financial crisis. He has written extensively for both an academic and practitioner audience on financial risk, financial regulation, and monetary policy. He has served as editor or editorial board member of several scholarly journals, and has served in an advisory capacity to central banks and policy organizations on financial stability issues. He is a fellow of the Econometric Society and of the British Academy.

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