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William Janeway: Which Way Forward? 2/6
William Janeway, Senior Advisor, Warburg Pincus, speaks on panel, entitled "Which Way Forward: Reflections on Global Turmoil and the Role of Markets, Governments, and Civil Society" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...
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Understanding Leverage Ratio in Banking
This is a video discussing the leverage ratio and its importance in measuring a bank's capital reserves relative to the loans it has taken on. The video discusses how the regulator sets a minimum leverage ratio for banks and how this...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Andrew Haldane: Creating a Socially Useful Financial System 2/5
Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability, Bank of England, speaking at the breakout panel entitled "How Can We Create a Financial System That Is Socially Useful?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...
The Wall Street Journal
IMF's Chief Economist on Covid-19 and the Economy
Gita Gopinath on the outlook for the U.S. and other industrialized economies, and if business can continue to count on central banks stimulating economic activity.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
George Akerlof - Efficient Markets Hypothesis and Causes of Crisis
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 2: Has the Efficient Market Hypothesis Led to the Crisis? Collapsed with The Crisis?
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Putting the Genie Back in the Bottle: A Drastic Simplification of Finance - Robert Kuttner
American Prospect's Robert Kuttner tells INET that banking needs to be simplified, in order to limit the abuses of the system, restore confidence, and rectify the political errors that led to the current crisis. Interviewed by Daniel...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Anton Korinek, Y. V. Reddy, Helene Rey, Charles Dallara - Toward a New Global Financial Architecture
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Session 4 Q&A: Toward a New Global Financial Architecture
The Wall Street Journal
All Eyes on the Federal Reserve with Loretta J. Mester
Loretta Mester, president and CEO of the Federal Bank of Cleveland, discusses the role of the Fed in managing inflationary pressure, including the likelihood of interest rate hikes in 2022.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Ken Rogoff - Debts, Deficits and Global Financial Stability
The Inaugural Conference @ King's, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Opening Session. Where are we now? Debts, Deficits and Global Financial Stability
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Katharina Pistor: Creating a Socially Useful Financial System 1/5
Katharina Pistor, Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law, Columbia Law School, speaking at the breakout panel entitled "How Can We Create a Financial System That Is Socially Useful?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...
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George Soros: The Emerging Economic and Political Order - What Lies Ahead? (4/5)
Anatole Kaletsky, Associate Editor of the The Times, moderates the first panel of INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 8, 2011: The Emerging Economic and Political Order: What Lies Ahead? Part 4 of 5 with George Soros, Chairman,...
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Q&A: The Market or the State? (6/6)
Roman Frydman, Philippe Aghion, William Janeway, William Lazonick, Ha-Joon Chang, and Peter Jungen at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 10, 2011
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The Role of the Economics Profession in the Global Crisis
A lineup of top Economists explain how the economics profession was partly responsible for the recent Financial meltdown and Great Recession.
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David Tuckett - How Investors Use Stories to Tame Uncertainty
If you want to understand how fund managers choose a portfolio, why not ask them? That's what David Tuckett does: he draws on standard sociological techniques of interviewing to understand investors' decisions to buy or sell assets. He...
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Calculating the Cost of COVID
Inflation? Expanding digital currencies? What's next in this brave new world? Jens Nordvig (Founder & CEO, Exante Data) describes what he saw as the pandemic unfolded, and where it might be taking us.
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Relearning Recessions
What causes a financial crisis? You may think of long lines of angry depositors at the bank. But Cornell economist Matthew Baron says it’s more about credit booms and over-lending than we’ve thought before.
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The Perils of Over-Optimistic Borrowing
Can over-optimism endanger the economy? Economist Yueran Ma discusses that very possibility in the credit cycle, as part of INET’s Private Debt initiative.
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George Soros Perspectives
Financier George Soros, who initiated the Institute with a $50 million gift, gives his perspective on the Institute and some of the huge issues facing economists in the 21st century.
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David Tuckett - Minding the Markets
"Minding the Markets: An Emotional Finance View of Financial Instability" summarizes the findings of David Tuckett's interviews with fund managers.
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City Winery's Journey: Overcoming Adversity and Defining Chutzpah with Selfish Philanthropy
The video is a presentation given by a business owner, Michael Dorf, about his company, City Winery. He discusses their initial business plan of selling barrels of wine to bankers, which failed due to the financial crisis, and how they...
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The Loanable Funds Theory: Explaining Interest Rates in Economics
This video explains the loanable funds theory. It also highlights the role of credit creation and destruction by banks in determining interest rates. The video explains the factors that influence the demand and supply of loanable funds...
The Business Professor
Economic Concentrations in Business School
Economic Concentrations in Business School
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John Kay: Creating a Socially Useful Financial System 4/5
John Kay, Visiting Professor, London School of Economics and Political Science, speaking at the breakout panel entitled "How Can We Create a Financial System That Is Socially Useful?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Katharina Pistor - What Finance (and Economics) Can Learn from Law
Without law and legal institutions, financial markets won't work. That's what economists discovered about 15 years ago, when former socialist countries turned towards capitalism. But economists still conceive of law too narrowly, mainly...