Caballero, Ricardo J.

Financial Crash, Commodity Prices and Global Imbalances / Ricardo J. Caballero, Emmanuel Farhi, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas. - Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2008. - 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white); - NBER working paper series no. w14521 . - Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w14521. .

December 2008.

In this paper we argue that the persistent global imbalances, the subprime crisis, and the volatile oil and asset prices that followed it, are tightly interconnected. They all stem from a global environment where sound and liquid financial assets are in scarce supply.




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