Confronting the New Reality: Globalisation, the Global Financial Crisis and the State

By John Farrar &David Mayes Globalisation and the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) have presented major challenges to orthodoxy. John Farrar and David Mayes discuss the...

Dividends – Everything you know is wrong!

By David Hogarty The world is constantly changing. We see it all the time. Yesterday’s league leaders become today’s relegation battlers. Alternative misfits become mainstream...

Asset Price Bubbles: Lessons From The Recent Financial Crisis

By Douglas Evanoff, George Kaufman & Anastasios G. Malliaris The successful performance of the U.S. economy during the ‘Great Moderation’ period of 1984 to 2006...

Keynes, Kant and Capital Flows

By Oliver Bush This is an abridged and altered version of Bush, O, Farrant, K and Wright, M (2011), ‘Reform of the International Monetary and...

Is Venture Capital In Crisis?

By Douglas Cumming & Sofia Johan The recent financial crisis cannot totally be blamed for the marked drops in venture capital fundraising, reduced venture investment...

A Golden Opportunity?

By Andy Simpson Since 2009, there has been a 192.6% increase in volumes of Single Malt Scotch Whisky (SMSW) sold at auction in the UK,...

What Does It Mean for an Executive to “Make” $1 Million?

By David F. Larcker, Allan McCall, & Brian Tayan Compensation figures commingle forward and backward, which makes it difficult for investors to understand what compensation...

99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality Is Wrecking the World and What We...

By Chuck Collins At the root of social movements around the world is the emergence, in the last three decades, of extreme inequalities of income,...

Does China Want to Buy Up Europe? Europe’s Crisis and China’s Reluctant Rise

By Roland Benedikter and Jae-Seung Lee In the occasion of Germany’s Angela Merkel’s visit to China on 3rd February 2012, Chinese premier Wen Jiabao stated...

Solving the Asset–Shortage Problem of Emerging Markets

By Patrick Imam The growing appetite for emerging market financial assets (such as equity or bonds) by local and foreign investors has not been met...

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China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth

By Danny Leipziger China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives? China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...

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