Relief, Recovery, Reform: A Retrospective on the US Policy Responses to the Great Recession

Abstract The Great Recession presented the US with economic and political challenges that had not been experienced since the time of the Great Depression. This article provides a retrospective on the government’s response to the crisis ten years after the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, as the coun...

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Main Author: Basak Kus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer 2020-07-01
Series:Intereconomics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1007/s10272-020-0910-4
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