Susan Lund
Susan Lund is Director of Research at the McKinsey Global Institute (MGI), McKinsey & Company’s business and economics research arm, and is based in Washington, DC. Her recent research has focused on the global financial and economic crisis, and debt and deleveraging. Prior research has examined how the rise of hedge funds, private equity, petrodollars and Asian central banks is shaping financial markets, assessed the sustainability of the US current account deficit, and analysed the performance of national financial systems around the world, including those in China and India. Lund also leads research for an annual report on the state of the world’s capital markets.
Papers Published in World Economics:
Debt and Deleveraging
In this article, McKinsey Global Institute researchers assess the increases in debt and leverage in ten mature economies and four emerging economies – breaking down that data by each country’s financial, household, non-financial business and government sectors. The authors then analyse the sustainability of current levels of leverage in those sectors and construct a ‘heat map of deleveraging’. The map shows which sectors in which economies are most likely to deleverage. Third, the authors analyse 45 episodes of deleveraging since 1930, focusing on the 32 episodes that occurred after a financial crisis. From these episodes, the authors draw insights into the macroeconomic channels through which a country can deleverage. Finally, they discuss the policy and business implications of the findings.
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