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Test Your Risk Intuition

March 28, 2011

I am dusting off a classic test for risk intuition. If you remember the test from years past, it will be nice to reminisce. If not, take the test now to assess your intuition and look at risk in a new way.

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Financial Reform: Sound Bites and Window Dressing

January 8, 2011

On Thursday, Representative Michele Bachmann (Tea Party Republican of Minnesota) introduced a bill to repeal the Dodd-Frank financial reform. With the Senate and Obama standing in the way, it won’t go anywhere. But who cares? The 2008 market crisis should have prompted serious reforms. Instead, we got sweeping window dressing. Dodd-Frank left in place the [...]

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Race To the Bottom

May 3, 2007

In recent months, a number of studies have been released addressing the question of whether burdensome US financial regulations are making US financial markets less competitive—driving fledgling corporations to go public in other, more lightly regulated jurisdictions. The first study was released last November by a recently formed Committee on Capital Markets Regulation (CCMR). Another [...]

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Inaugural Article

October 12, 2006

Ask a practitioner of the origins of financial risk management, and he might say it emerged in response to financial blow-ups of the early 1990s. Or he might say it emerged out of efforts by the Basel Committee to standardize bank capital requirements globally. Or he might say it emerged from efforts by banks to [...]