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And what about the money?
On September 15, 2008, six years ago, Lehman Brothers collapsed. Despite a “tsunami” of reforms, the financial...
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A View From Germany III – Local solutions to a global crisis
The financial crisis is a crisis of globalised finance. If too much money is moving too...
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A View From Germany II – The financing of the German economy
In the rest of the EU, the main strength of Germany’s economy is often considered to...
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A View From Germany I – How the three-pillared German Banking System has gotten through the crisis
Since the bulk of media and political attention has moved away from private financial institutions to...
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Lessons from History X – From London to Paris. How excessive public debt and uncontrolled financial innovation led to the bubbles of 1720
Facing similar problems of unsustainable public debt, 18th century England and France tried to resort to...
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4 reasons why banks and insurers can’t withstand the climate crisis without extra loss-absorption capacity
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Lessons from History IX – The shareholder and the capitalist. A historical reflection on corporate governance
In the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis, regulators rightly focused on the most salient problems:...
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Lessons from history VIII – On the social utility of finance
How an 18th century British doctrine suggests a complete overhaul of financial regulation
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Lessons from history VII – Tulip mania and the ‘bubble’ propaganda of elites
The tulip mania is one of the most famous episodes of financial history, constantly evoked by...
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