Fair Lending Compliance for Mortgage Lenders – An International Concern
By Anna DeSimone
Both the U.S. and the European Union are addressing the problems believed to have created the financial crisis by heightening consumer protection...
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...
Trade Imbalances and the Global Financial Crisis
By Michael Pettis
The source of the global crisis through which we are living can be found in the great trade and capital flow imbalances...
Governance of International Banking: The Financial Trilemma
By Dirk Schoenmaker
International banking is at the cross-roads. Are we heading for the decentralised banking model, by which banks are split in national subsidiaries...
How the Great Moderation Became a (Contained) Depression and What to Do About It
By Barry Z. Cynamon, Steven M. Fazzari & Mark Setterfield
The Great Recession was deep and the subsequent recovery has been slower than most economists...
Mortgage Lending Solutions for Troubled Markets
By Anna DeSimone
Creation of wealth began with farmers who planted something into the land and earned income from harvesting food. Others created wealth from...
Can Financial Innovations Mitigate Civil and Ethnic Conflict?
By Saumitra Jha
The failure to align the incentives of self-interested groups in favor of beneficial reform is often considered a major cause of civil...
Macro-Prudential Supervision in Europe’s Banking Union
By Dirk Schoenmaker
Eurozone banking union discussions are full of questions about the scope of Eurozone micro-prudential bank supervision. Yet, this article argues that there...
Transfer Pricing Update: New discussion draft issued by OECD
By Les Secular
The OECD has issued an updated Discussion Draft on “The Interpretation and Application of Article Permanent Establishments (‘PE’) – of the OECD...
Fiscal Child Abuse American Style
By Laurence Kotlikoff & Scott Burns
President Kennedy said, “Our problems are man-made. Therefore, they may be solved by man.” Looking at America’s current horrendous...
EDITOR'S PICK OF THE WEEK
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...
