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COMMODITY MARKET REGULATION AFTER FINANCIAL CRISIS: A COMPARATIVE APPROACH
Author(s) -
Pirrong Renee E.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0270.2011.02078.x
Subject(s) - commodity , great depression , financial crisis , recession , economics , commodity market , depression (economics) , financial system , financial market , government (linguistics) , great recession , economic policy , market economy , business , finance , macroeconomics , keynesian economics , political science , linguistics , philosophy , law
The United States Federal Government has imposed remarkably similar regulations on commodity markets after financial crises, particularly after the Great Depression and the recent financial crisis beginning in 2007. A comparison of these two great economic recessions will help identify the changes in commodity regulation policy over the past century.