Unlike most hyperinflations, during Zimbabwe's recent hyperinflation, as in Revolutionary France, the currency ended before the regime. The empirical results here suggest that the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe operated on the correct side of the inflation tax Laffer curve before abandoning the...

Collateralized debt obligations with asset backed securities as collateral (ABS CDOs) often getovershadowed in debates over causes of large commercial bank holding company (BHC) distressduring the 2007–2009 crisis. For BHCs, the Recourse Rule made holding the highest rated ABS CDO tranches...