Chris Swinson In 1944, the Bank of England’s historian, John Clapham, looked back at the ways in which the Bank had changed since 1914 and remarked: ‘ . . . it would not be fantastic to argue that the Bank in 1944 was further . . . from 1914 than 1914 was from 1714.’ He […]
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[New post] Covid-19 briefing: Covid-19 crisis, climate change and green recovery
Monday, November 9, 2020
BankUnderground posted: " Misa Tanaka The Coronavirus pandemic and measures to contain contagion had far reaching consequences on economic activities, which also led to a sharp fall in CO2
[New post] Financial shocks, reopening the case
Thursday, October 22, 2020
BankUnderground posted: " David Gauthier Since the tumultuous events of 2007, much work has suggested that financial shocks are the main driver of economic fluctuations. In a recent paper, I
[New post] Left feeling unsettled: what are settlement failures, how prevalent are they, and what do we do about them?
Monday, October 12, 2020
BankUnderground posted: " Gary Harper, Pedro Gurrola-Perez and Jieshuang He What is a settlement fail? Imagine you've booked tickets for a flight, and go to pick them up and pay for them on
[New post] The leverage ratio: a balance between risk and safety
Tuesday, October 6, 2020
BankUnderground posted: " 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 eg here, here
[New post] Wir sind die Roboter: can we predict financial crises?
Friday, October 2, 2020
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
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