The U.S. Financial Crisis: Lessons from Chile

Abstract

Chile experienced a banking crisis from 1981-84 that in relative terms had a cost comparable in size to that perhaps facing the United States today. The Chilean Central Bank acted quickly and decisively in three ways to restore faith in the credit markets. It restructured firm and household loans, purchased nonperforming loans temporarily, and facilitated the sale or liquidation of insolvent financial institutions. These three measures increased liquidity in the credit markets and restored the balance sheets of the viable financial institutions. The Central Bank required banks to repurchase the nonperforming loans when provision for their loss could be made and prohibited distribution of profits until they had all been retired. Although the private sector remained engaged throughout the resolution of this crisis, the fiscal costs were, nonetheless, very high.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 29, 2008
Accession Number
ADA487252

Entities

People

  • J. F. Hornbeck

Organizations

  • Library of Congress

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Business Administration
  • Commerce
  • Congress
  • Consumers
  • Domestic
  • Families (Human)
  • Finance
  • Fluids
  • Governments
  • Information Operations
  • International Trade
  • Law
  • Money
  • Personnel Management
  • Regulations
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Economics

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  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Economics