The Divergent Postcommunist Paths to Democracy and Economic Freedom
This paper presents evidence from 29 postcommunist countries that the economic transition has been more successful than the political transformation...
Why it doesn't make sense to hold bonds
Investor demand for bonds is very high. This column argues that this is surprising because under almost any likely inflation scenario, including...
On the financial market consequences of Brexit
Brexit creates new opportunities and new risks for the British and EU financial markets. Both could benefit, but a more likely outcome is a fall in...
Cyber risk as systemic risk
The threat to the financial system posed by cyber risk is often claimed to be systemic. This column argues against this, pointing out that almost all...
Insurance and systemic risk: No easy conclusions
The IMF’s latest Global Financial Stability Report devotes for the first time a chapter to the systemic risks potentially associated with the...
Women in Finance
Across countries, banks have less gender diverse boards than other firms. Bank board diversity is particularly low in countries with greater gender...
Macro-Modelling, Default and Money
Mainstream macro-models have assumed away financial frictions, in particular default. The minimum addition in order to introduce financial...
Learning in Crowded Markets
We study how competition among investors affects the efficiency of capital allocation, the speed of capital, and welfare. In our model, investors...
Stress testing and macroprudential regulation: A transatlantic assessment
Since the onset of the Global Crisis in 2007-08, stress testing has emerged as a major component of the supervisory toolkit. This column introduces a...
Stress Testing and Macroprudential Regulation: A Transatlantic Assessment
This CEPR Press eBook presents the perspectives of policymakers, stress test designers and academics on the remarkable development of stress testing...
Cultural Proximity and Loan Outcomes
We present evidence that cultural proximity (shared codes, beliefs, ethnicity) between lenders and borrowers increases the quantity of credit and...
Informational Black Holes in Financial Markets
We study how efficient primary financial markets are in allocating capital when information about investment opportunities is dispersed across market...
The Systemic Risk Buffer for UK Banks: A Response to the Bank of England's Consultation Paper
On 29 January 2016 the Bank of England (2016a) published for consultation the Financial Policy Committee’s proposed framework for the systemic risk...
