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The industrial countries have been severely affected by the financial crisis because of the high degree of financial engineering of their economies. In order to understand the transmission effect of sub-prime mortgage default on the financial system and, consequently, on the economic system, it is necessary to retrace some key stages (as in Cassola et al., 2008b).
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Porzio, C., Battaglia, F., Meles, A., Starita, M.G. (2010). Financial Turmoil and Asymmetric Information Theory: Evidence from the e-Mid Platform. In: Fiordelisi, F., Molyneux, P., Previati, D. (eds) New Issues in Financial and Credit Markets. Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230302181_3
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