TY - BOOK AU - Brunnermeier,Markus K. ED - National Bureau of Economic Research. TI - Deciphering the Liquidity and Credit Crunch 2007-08 T2 - NBER working paper series PY - 2008/// CY - Cambridge, Mass. PB - National Bureau of Economic Research N1 - December 2008; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers N2 - This paper summarizes and explains the main events of the liquidity and credit crunch in 2007-08. Starting with the trends leading up to the crisis, I explain how these events unfolded and how four different amplification mechanisms magnified losses in the mortgage market into large dislocations and turmoil in financial markets UR - https://www.nber.org/papers/w14612 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w14612 ER -