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Fighting Financial Crises: Making Policy

Bruner, Robert F.

Technical Note

Fighting Financial Crises: Making Policy

Bruner, Robert F.

F-1848 | Published July 26, 2018 | 5 pages Technical Note

Collection: Darden School of Business

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This note shapes a framework of competing policy priorities for governments in responding to a financial crisis: rescue, relief, recovery, and reform. The dominant considerations are where, when, how, and why governments should choose the order of these policy priorities. The second part of the note highlights six hurdles to policy making: ideologies, interests, incentives, institutions, innovations, and infrastructure.

Support student analysis of cases or other teaching material about the financial crisis of 2008. Demonstrate that policy making involves difficult tradeoffs and the surmounting of challenging barriers.