This master thesis deals with causes and some of the main instituonal answers to the financial crisis of 2007-2009. The thesis also ppresents a brief historical overview of US financial crisis. The main aim of the first chapter is to decide whether the US historical crisis have something in common. The answer is that the past crisis really share something and the difference is rather in historical circumstances. The second chapter is dedicated to some of the financial crisis causes such as Community Reinvestment Act,Gramm Leach Bliley Act, Commodity Futures Modernization Act and also to the role of moral hazard. This thesis is of a firm belief that the only aspect that can be blamed is the phenomenon of moral hazard. The last chapter is focused on the main instituonal answers to the crisis. Dodd-Frank Act, Volcker rule, reorganization of derivative market, some of the changes in rating agencies regulation and also BASEL III consequences for capital requirements are all under the radar.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:48:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Fabiana Franco de Oliveira.pdf: 2325319 bytes, checksum: 8445c073369bffb9ce6e9cf31ed9d303 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-04-22 / This paper seeks to analyze the debate on the results of the american local reinvestment law Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), aimed at the role of government regulating in expanding access to credit, as well its participation in local development. At the height of the Great Depression in the 1930s, the funding program for housing in the New Deal had as objective to create jobs for thousands of unemployed. The mortgage of the government, however, has not benefited everyone. A large inventory was designed to assess the residential areas of the country. The mapping of regions where the banks could not provide loans worth up to discriminatory criteria. The factors of exclusion had nothing to do with the solvency of the inhabitants, but with the conservation status of the neighborhoods and the presence of ethnic minorities on the spot. The practice was called redlining because the areas excluded from access to credit were red delineated on the maps prepared by the government. Researchers of urban planning in the United States argue that these maps were used by public and private entities to, years later, denying loans to people in black communities or low-income neighborhoods. The assumptions of redlining resulted in increasing the geographical and racial segregation and has contributed to urban decay. The CRA was created in 1977 to combat redlining in the granting of mortgage financing. While the immediate goal was to punish discrimination in the granting of loans, the issue of local economic development has been the more comprehensive target of the law. After 30 years of implementation, what were the results? Based on analysis of existing literature on the impact of CRA on access to credit for low-income communities and ethnic minorities, this study seeks answers to these questions. The object of this debate analysis also houses the controversy surrounding the relationship between the CRA and the credit crisis linked to the U.S. mortgage system / Este trabalho analisa o debate sobre os resultados da lei de reinvestimento local norte-americana Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), tendo em vista o papel da regulação governamental na ampliação do acesso ao crédito bancário e a participação deste do desenvolvimento local. No auge da Grande Depressão dos anos 1930, o programa de financiamento à habitação do New Deal tinha como objetivo criar postos de trabalho para milhares de desempregados. A garantia hipotecária do governo, no entanto, não beneficiou a todos. Um grande inventário foi criado para avaliar as áreas residenciais do país. O mapeamento das regiões onde credores hipotecários assegurados por fundos do governo não poderiam conceder empréstimos valeu-se de critérios discriminatórios. Os fatores de exclusão nada tinham a ver com a solvabilidade dos habitantes, mas com as características sócio-econômicas dos bairros e a presença de minorias no local. A prática foi denominada redlining , uma vez que as áreas excluídas do acesso ao crédito eram delimitadas em vermelho, nos mapas elaborados pelo governo. Pesquisadores do planejamento urbano nos Estados Unidos defendem que esses mapas foram utilizados por entidades públicas e privadas para, anos mais tarde, negar empréstimos a pessoas em comunidades negras ou bairros de baixa renda. Os pressupostos do redlining resultaram no aumento da segregação racial e geográfica, além de contribuir para a degradação urbana. O CRA foi criado em 1977 para combater a discriminação na concessão de financiamento hipotecário, mas a questão do desenvolvimento econômico local constituiu um alvo mais abrangente da lei. Após 30 anos de execução, quais foram os seus resultados? Com base na análise da literatura existente acerca do impacto do CRA no acesso ao crédito para comunidades de baixa renda e minorias étnicas, este trabalho busca respostas a essas questões. O debate objeto desta análise também abriga a polêmica em torno das relações entre o CRA e a crise de crédito ligada ao sistema hipotecário dos EUA, que eclodiu em 2007/2008, afetando países em todo o mundo

The diploma thesis investigates causes and progression of the financial crisis beginning in 2007 in the United States and leading in the economic recession. Theoretical part of the thesis describes business cycles and their explanations in accordance with the Austrian theory of the business cycle and other theories. Analytical part of the thesis explores the period before the crisis and significant events relevant to it. The main subject of the thesis are institutions and regulatory measures that have major importance for the U.S. real estate market -- including monetary and intervenionist policy of Fed, Community Reinvestment Act, government sponsored enterprises and three major rating agencies. The goal of the work is to provide a comprehensive view of the financial crisis and analyse main factors that influenced its creation -- credit expansion, mortgage market, Fed's monetary policy, bank behavior, etc. This thesis tries to demonstrate an inaccuracy of state inteventions and their impacts on the economy and market system.