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N° 19 Focus
Summer 2003
The Bursting Financial Bubble and Balance Sheet Restructuring of the Corporate Sector in the United States and Europe
Bronka Rzepkowski
The financial crisis from March 2000 onwards is related to the dynamics of asset prices and broad credit, in a context of low inflation. Since the stock market bubble burst, some balance sheet restructuring of the corporate sector has been necessary to reduce indebtedness and the value of the “goodwill” that appeared during the wave of mergers and acquisitions in the late 1990s. This is a prerequisite for investment to recover. Abstract
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