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...

Conventional versus Islamic Private Equity

By Mohamed Ali Chatti and Ouidad Yousfi There are some similarities between Islamic and conventional PE, like for example the active participation, the quick exit...

A Comment on “The American Mortgage System: Crisis and Reform”

By Marvin M. Smith, Anthony Orlando, and Susan Wachter “If price discovery continues to be unattainable in both the subprime, structured CDO and lower quality...

Emerging Markets are Re-Shaping the Global Economy, But Also Shaking It

By George Magnus From global tourism to manufactured products, and from industrial processes to modern technologies order, the re-convergence of emerging markets and their economic...

The Causes of the Banking Crises of the 1920’s

By Simon D. Norton The credit crunch of 2007-2008 shares many similarities in terms of causes with the Depression Era and wave of bank failures...

Rethinking Global Financial Governance Reform

By Daniel D. Bradlow The limited success over the past few years in reforming global financial governance means that there is a need to reassess...

Time to Win Investors Over

By Baruch Lev Managers need to be able to respond to investors’ concerns and regain their trust, but their response is seriously hindered by the...

Too systemic to fail: Consequences, causes, and potential remedies

By Raghuram Rajan Perhaps the single biggest distortion to the free enterprise system is when a number of private institutions are deemed by political and...

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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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