The Global Financial Crisis

Professor Tony Ciro is Deputy Head of School of Business (Melbourne) in the Faculty of Business at Australian Catholic University. He is a current member of the Victorian Bar and a member of CPA Australia. He has extensive research expertise in taxation law, the global economy, financial derivatives markets, business law, corporations law and general commercial law. His research has been published widely in leading Australian and international refereed journals. He is the author/co-author of 10 books which have been published by leading international and Australian publishers including: Oxford University Press, Thompson Reuters, Lexis Nexis Butterworths and Euromoney. The books cover broad fields in business, taxation and commercial law, contemporary economic events and international financial markets regulation.

Contents: Preface; Introduction: timeline of the crisis; Previous crises; Triggers of the crisis; The crisis goes global; Financial markets and the GFC; Rescue packages and policy responses; Inquiries and proposals for reform; New financial markets regulation; The way forward; Bibliography; Index.