Talk:Self-fulfilling crisis

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Dr. Cecchetti has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"This entry is very poorly written. It requires technical editing in order to make it readable. For example, the first sentence states:

"Self-fulfilling crisis refers to a situation that a financial crisis is not directly caused by the unhealthy economic fundamental conditions or improper government policies, but a consequence of pessimistic expectations of investors."

I would have written:

"Self-fulfilling crisis is a term used to refer to a financial crisis that is not directly caused by poor economic fundamental conditions or bad government policies, but is a consequence of investors’ pessimistic expectations."

Later in the piece there are things the following, which is not a sentence:

"Self-fulfilling crisis is a mechanism of crisis which highlights the role of expectations."

This level of imprecision makes the piece sufficiently difficult to understand that I cannot comment further."

We hope Wikipedians on this talk page can take advantage of these comments and improve the quality of the article accordingly.

Dr. Cecchetti has published scholarly research which seems to be relevant to this Wikipedia article:


 * Reference : Cecchetti, Stephen G & Kohler, Marion & Upper, Christian, 2009. "Financial Crises and Economic Activity," CEPR Discussion Papers 7495, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.

ExpertIdeas (talk) 02:27, 29 August 2015 (UTC)