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  1. How Can We Track Bank Risk?

    Featuring Juliane Begenau

    Aug 21, 2019

    Risky lending took down the global economy in 2008. Tracking it now is a vital job for economists, says Juliane Begenau

  2. Working Paper Series

    Firm-Level Political Risk: Measurement and Effects

    By Tarek Alexander Hassan, Stephan Hollander, Laurence van Lent, and Ahmed Tahoun

    Jul 2019

    We adapt simple tools from computational linguistics to construct a new measure of political risk faced by individual US firms: the share of their quarterly earnings conference calls that they devote to political risks.

  3. How the Stock Market Drives Wealth Inequality

    Featuring Moritz Schularick

    Jul 10, 2019

    When the stock market grows faster than the housing market, the gains of the top 1% outpace those of the middle class

  4. A Brief History of Doom

    Featuring Richard Vague and Rob Johnson

    Jun 26, 2019

    Richard Vague and Rob Johnson discuss the role of excessive lending in causing financial crises throughout history

  5. Non-bank lending and the credit cycle: what are the risks?

    Featuring Trent Reasons and Til Schuermann

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  6. Outlook Session: How much debt is too much?

    Featuring Karen Dynan, Jan Hatzius, and Adair Turner

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  7. Sectoral Credit and Financial Instability: Does the sectoral allocation matter for financial stability risks?

    Featuring Karsten Müller

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  8. Expectations and Credit Cycles: What role for over-optimism of borrowers and lenders?

    Featuring Alessia De Stefani and Kaspar Zimmermann

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  9. Private Debt Booms and the Real Economy: Do the benefits outweigh the costs?

    Featuring Emil Verner

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  10. Incentives and Credit Cycles: What’s driving risk taking in credit booms?

    Featuring Ruediger Fahlenbrach

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  11. How can we measure risk exposure of banks and credit markets?

    Featuring Juliane Begenau

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  12. Is risk mispriced in credit booms, and if so, why?

    Featuring Tyler Muir

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  13. Are better capitalized banking systems safer?

    Featuring Òscar Jordà and Alan Taylor

    Jun 21, 2019 |

  14. Subprime Lending and the 2008 Crisis: Do we need a new narrative?

    Featuring Stefania Albanesi

    Jun 20, 2019 |

  15. Credit Supply Shocks: Where do they come from, and what are their effects?

    Featuring Atif Mian

    Jun 20, 2019 |