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Financial Crises
Art: William Playfair, Chart of Universal Commercial History, 1805 · Public domain
- Instructor
- Prof. Alp Simsek
- Term
- January IAP 2016
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 exam · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 8 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 14.09 Financial Crises, January IAP 2016, Prof. Alp Simsek — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
8 files
- Lecture 2: Borrowing Constraints, the Net Worth Channel, and the Credit Crunch Download
- Lecture 3: Leverage, Fire Sales, and Amplification Mechanisms Download
- Lecture 4: Understanding Banks’ Losses: Moral Hazard or Mistakes Download
- Lecture 5: Maturity Mismatch and Bank Runs Download
- Lecture 6: Collateralized Debt and Information Based Panics Download
- Lecture 7: Interconnections and Panics Download
- Lecture 8: Lessons and Policy Responses Download
- Understanding Financial Crises: Lessons from History Download
Exams
Course outline
Lecture Notes · Lecture Notes
Lecture 2: Borrowing Constraints and the Net Worth Channel
Lecture Notes · Lecture Notes
Lecture 3: Leverage, Fire Sales, and Amplification Mechanisms
Lecture Notes · Lecture Notes
Lecture 4: Understanding Banks’ Losses: Moral Hazard or Mistakes
Lecture Notes · Lecture Notes
Lecture 5: Liquidity, Part 1: Maturity Mismatch and Banking Panics
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Lecture 6: Liquidity, Part 2: Debt, Panics, and Flight to Quality
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Lecture 7: Interconnections and Complexity
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Lecture 8: Optimal Policy: How to Mitigate or Prevent Crises?
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Alp Simsek, 14.09 Financial Crises, January IAP 2016.
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