The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Day 2 - Lunch:<b<br/>r/>

Netwo<br/>rks and Systemic Risks

Financial fragility does not fall from the sky. That's why treating risk as if it comes from exogenous shocks can't capture the reality of financial markets.



In Giovanni Dosi's models, systemic risk is inherent to the...

When regulators seek to identify systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs), they tend to focus on an institution's size and connectedness. But this approach mises an important dimension of systemic risk, according to Imre...

The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 8:<b<br/>r/>

Political Economy: What Can Government Do? Wh<br/>at Will Government Do?

The panelists discuss large complex financial institutions at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011. The speaker in this segment is Claudio Borio, Deputy Head of Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International...

An individual fish reduces the danger to itself by swimming as close as possible to the center of the school. That is how schools hold together. John Davis says that researchers and fish are alike -- both engage in herd behavior. PhD...

Banks take on excessive risk since they know, in case of failure, the taxpayer will step in to rescue them. That is a form of free insurance, and Ed Kane wants to end it. To do so, he says, we need to put a number on systemic risk, the...

Successful chief information security officers are effective at getting their message across to the board. In this session we'll put two CISOs to the test as they present in front of two board members and have their efforts critiqued.

The panelists discuss large complex financial institutions at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011. The speaker in this segment is Garry Schinasi, a Visiting Fellow at Bruegel in Brussels. The other panelists are Erik...