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When I became the head of banking supervision in the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s, my friends did not see it as a glamorous...
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When I became the head of banking supervision in the United Kingdom in the mid-1990s, my friends did not see it as a glamorous...
I may not be the only finance professor who, when setting essay topics for his or her students, has resorted to a question along...
Very soon after the magnitude of the 2008 financial crisis became clear, a lively debate began about whether central banks and regulators could –...
LONDON – In 1993, the economists Alberto Alesina and Larry Summers published a seminal paper that argued that central bank independence keeps inflation in...
There are several definitions of financial repression – and the repressors and the repressed tend to see things differently. But what financial repression usually...
In the alphabet soup of institutions involved in the regulation of global financial markets, the FMLC – the Financial Markets Law Committee – is...
The eurozone’s survival is in doubt again, as Greece demands debt forgiveness and an end to austerity – or else. But, though Europe’s currency...
– In November, the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced a settlement in which six banks would be fined a total of $4.3 billion for...
– The global system of financial regulation is extraordinarily complex. Partly for that reason, it is little understood. In order to explain it to...
– The well-publicized troubles of Portugal’s Banco Espírito Santo this summer have reminded us that the eurozone’s financial problems are by no means resolved....