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Mathematically detecting bubbles before they burst
And we’re not talking figuratively. From the dotcom bust in the late nineties to the housing crash in the run-up to the 2008 crisis, financial bubbles have been a topic of major concern. Identifying...
View ArticleWomen in Risk: Overcoming Gender Bias
Emily Holbrook writes over at Risk Management Magazineread more...
View ArticleVideo - World Economic Forum Global Risks Report 2012
We are living in a new world of risk. Globalization, shifting demographics, rapidly accelerating technological change, increased connectivity, economic uncertainty, a growing multiplicity of actors and...
View ArticleFinancial Markets, Systemic Risk and Fossil Fuel Investment: A response from...
Last month an Open Letter to the Bank of England (see below) called for an investigation into "how the UK’s exposure to high carbon investments might pose a systemic risk to our financial system and...
View ArticleEarly Detection of Collapse Waves in the Global Financial Markets - A New...
Some fascinating new research out of Tel Aviv University, in collaboration with the Kiel Institute of World Economy, has been published in PLoS ONE.read more...
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Video: The Financial Markets' Network Crisis
Financial crises are somehow similar to blackouts, pandemics, extinctions, earthquakes... there is something common to all these phenomena: their underlying networks. FOC (Forecasting Financial Crises)...
View ArticleVideo - Systemic Risk: Insights from Networks - Daron Acemoglu
This talk was given at the 2012 American Finance Association meeting in Chicago.read more...
View ArticleGARP, 2011 Risk Manager of the Year Awarded to Aaron Brown, AQR Capital...
The Global Association of Risk Professionals, (GARP, www.garp.org ) presented its 2011 Risk Manager of the Year Award today to Aaron Brown, Head of Risk Management for AQR Capital Management at the...
View ArticleVideo - Forecasting Financial Crises, Interview with Stefano Battiston, ETH...
Via the Blog of the FOC Project, a European Science project aimed at understanding and forecasting systemic risk and global financial instabilities, comes this interview with Stefano Battiston,...
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3 Questions: Andrew Lo on JP Morgan's multibillion-dollar trading loss
MIT financial markets expert addresses the need for better risk management — and a simple way to tell if JP Morgan’s failed gamble was a trade or a hedge.read more...
View ArticleFinancial regulatory systems fragmented and unprepared for next crisis, says...
The "No More 'Too Big to Fail'" rallying cry is unrealistic, says Cheryl Block, JD, federal taxation, budget and bailout expert and professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis. read more...
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In financial ecosystems, big banks trample economic habitats and spread...
Like the impact of an elephant herd grazing on grassland, multinational banks shape the financial environment to an extent that far outweighs their small number. And like a contagious person on a...
View ArticleHow 'black swans' and 'perfect storms' become lame excuses for bad risk...
Stanford risk expert recommends engineering principles to assess catastrophic riskread more...
View ArticleStudy: Only a third of us show a consistent approach to financial risk
Empirically rich new study finds most people alter their risk-management approach depending on the type of financial decision.read more...
View ArticleForecasting Financial Crises: A Short Documentary
Finance is as fragile as a house of cards, as complicated as a Rubik cube, and as intermingled as a bunch of mikado sticks. Science can help to sort out patterns in the complexity of the economic...
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