Jonathan Smith What was the root cause of the financial crisis? Ask any economist or banker and undoubtedly they will at some point mention leverage (see e.g. here, here and here). Yet when a capital requirement based on leverage — the leverage ratio requirement — was introduced, fierce criticism followed (see e.g. here and here). […]
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[New post] Wir sind die Roboter: can we predict financial crises?
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BankUnderground posted: " Kristina Bluwstein, Marcus Buckmann, Andreas Joseph, Miao Kang, Sujit Kapadia and Özgür Şimşek Financial crises are recurrent events in economic history. But they are as
[New post] Market fragility in the pandemic era
Monday, September 28, 2020
BankUnderground posted: " Gerardo Ferrara, Roberto Reno and Maria Flora Financial markets process orders faster now than ever before. However, they remain prone to occasional dysfunction where
[New post] Jump-starting an international currency
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Tuesday, September 15, 2020
BankUnderground posted: " Robert Czech, Shiyang Huang, Dong Lou and Tianyu Wang Government bond yields serve as a benchmark for virtually all other rates in financial markets. But what factors
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