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systemic risk

cryptocurrency, Libra, systemic risk, financial regulation, macroprudential regulation
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Of Libras and Zebras, Part One

Diego Zuluaga/July 11, 2019June 19, 2022

What Are the True Financial Risks of the Facebook-Led Digital Currency? (Part I: Systemic Risk) In medicine, “zebra” describes an instance when the doctor diagnoses an unlikely but eye-catching condition instead of a less noteworthy but more probable one that also fits the symptoms. Professor Theodore Woodward…

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Bank Capital, Bank of England, competition in banking, systemic risk, Too Big To Fail
Economic Thought, Free Banking, Money & Politics

Competition in (British) Banking

Tom Clougherty/May 6, 2016June 19, 2022

Writing for FT.com’s “The Exchange” blog, economists Diane Coyle and Jonathan Haskel suggest that Britain’s regulators — namely, the Competition and Markets Authority and the Bank of England — have got it wrong on competition in banking.  The authors argue that “the CMA and the BoE” have overlooked “the…

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