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Lender of last resort Credit crunch Shadow bank Debt overhang Banking crisis Maturity transformation Asset bubble Financial contagion Financial panic | the conversion of short-term liabilities into long-term assets. a sudden and widespread disruption of the financial markets that occurs when people suddenly lose faith in the liquidity of financial institutions and markets. a reduction in the availability of credit in which potential borrowers can’t get credit at all or must pay very high interest rates. the price of an asset pushed to an unreasonably high level due to expectations of further price gains. a vicious downward spiral among depository banks or shadow banks: each bank’s failure worsens fears and increases the likelihood that another bank will fail. an institution, usually a country’s central bank, that provides funds to financial institutions when they are unable to borrow from private credit markets. episode when a large part of the depository banking sector or the shadow banking sector fails or threatens to fail. a non-depository financial institution that engages in maturity transformation. high debt but diminished assets, resulting from a vicious circle of deleveraging. |