The U.S`s Financial Crisis of 2007-2009
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U.S Financial Crisis
2007-2009
Present by
Huan He
Prepared for
Dr. Ramon Castillo
Econ 462
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, LOS ANGELES
Spring 2011
Eric Le
Grace Peng
U.S Crisis 2007-2009
• Referred as a Financial and Real Estate Crisis
Stock prices decreased
Prestigious financial institutions failed
Lending was disrupted
Unemployment rose to near 10%
U.S Crisis 2007-2009 (cont.)
• Governments, central banks, and
international organizations implemented
various plans to combat the crisis.
Fiscal expansion
Monetary expansion
Institutional bailouts
Causes of the Crisis
• Growth of the housing bubble
• Easy credit conditions
• Subprime lending
• Deregulation and lax regulation
• Collapse of the shadow banking system
Growth of the housing bubble
During the housing bubble, the growth of home prices outpaced
income growth.
The price of the house increased 124% in 2006 .
At the peak of the bubble in 2006, the home price was 4.6 times the
median household income.
After the peak in 2006, housing prices declined over 20% by the end of
2008
Growth of the housing bubble (Cont.)
• The U.S. residential properties subject to
foreclosure actions from 2007 to 2010.
Easy credit conditions
• Low interest rates made credit more
accessible, enable consumers to increase
borrowing
• Less manageable loans coupled with the
inverse relationship between interest rates and
asset prices made speculation in the housing
market more risky
Subprime Lending
A greater risk of default than conventional loans.
In March 2007, 7.5 million first-lien subprime
mortgage loans were outstanding $1.3 trillion.
High risk subprime lending increased due to
government policies and competition among financial
institutions
2008: The poorer loan screening increased to 25% in
subprime defaults
Insufficient Regulation and Deregulation
Regulation did not keep pace with financial innovations
The central bank had not federal supervision over:
Investment banks
Hedge funds
Other firms involved in derivatives or complex financial
products.
About half of the subprime loans were written by statechartered mortgage companies with minimum
supervision.
Impact on the Aggregate Economy
Crisis began with:
Assets price declined and Financial institution
collapse
Crisis reduced
aggregate demand
causing economic activity
investment
>>>Aggregate economy decreased
Impact on the Aggregate Economy (Cont.)
2008 -2009: Real GDP decreased 6 %
Average hours per workweek declined to 33%
The Collapses of Major Bank & Investment Bank
Jan 2008 – Countrywide Financial Institution
March 2008 – Bear Stearns
Sept 2008 – Lehman Brother
Sept 2008 – Merrill Lynch
Sept 2008 – Washington Mutual
Dec 2008 – Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac
US Unemployment Rate
US Unemployment Rate
1) Total Unemployment Rate – 4.6 in 2006 increase
to 9.6 in 2010
2) Major sector:
Financial Sector – 2.7 in 2006 to 6.9 in 2010
Construction Sector – 6.7 in 2006 to 20.6 2010
Manufacturing Sector – 4.3 in 2007 to 10.6 2010
GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
Response of Policy Makers
1) “Too big to fail”
Limit the size of institutions to prevent them from
becoming TBTF
Firms that arrange risky transactions must take on
some of the risk.
Reduce incentive for executives to take risky gambles
in hopes of high short-run gain.
2) Financial regulation
Inconsistencies and gaps in regulation contributed to
the 2007-2009 financial crisis
Consolidate regulators of add an agency that oversees
and coordinates regulators
Monetary Policy
1) Federal Reserve System
Repair commercial paper market – Buying
back unsecured and asset-backed commercial
paper directly from issuers.
Restore securitizations
Reduce mortgage interest rates – Reduced of
Interest rate 6.41 (2006) to 4.69 (2007)
Federal Fund Rate – Reduced of Fed funds from
5.02% to near 0.18%
Fix Rate Mortgage Rate
Federal Fund Rates
Fiscal Policies
1) Economic Stimulus Act of 2008
Government spent about $152 billion on the
stimulus package.
Tax rebates – gear toward low & middle-income
Tax incentives for businesses.
2) Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of
2008
Mortgage-backed securities
Fiscal Policy (Cont.)
3) Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP)
AIG – Sept 2008 they received about $85 billion;
May 2009 they received another $97 billion.
Big Four Banks:
Citigroup – received $45 Billion in bailout money
Bank of American – Guarantee $118 billion of the bailout
money, but used only $45 billion
JP Morgan Chase – Received $25 billion in bailout money
Wells Fargo - Received $25 billion in bailout money
Outcome of monetary and fiscal policies
• Outcome from “too big to fail policy”
• Taxpayer subsidy
• Cost of funds for small and large institutions
before and during the bailout
• Cost-of-funds spread between small & large
banks increased to 0.69%
Economic Stimulus Packages
Fisical Stimulus package – by borrowing and
spending to offset the reduction in private sector
demand caused by the crisis. In 2008 and 2009, the
U.S. excuted total of $1 trillion.
Recovering from the Crisis & international
institution Intervention
• Global Implications:
The stimulus reduced the risk of a sharper
Reduced more sustained global downturn.
FRS – interest rate cuts make money cheaper.
State and local revenue recovering
tax receipts up 5% on the annual basis
Thank You!