This article analyzes the determinants of liquidity crises based on the dynamics of banking and finance under Knightian uncertainty. In this perspective, the facts of the global financial crisis seem to confirm Minsky's hypothesis of endogenous financial instability derived from Keynes's theory...

This paper investigates the determinants of liquidity crises based on the dynamics of banking and finance under uncertainty. The explanatory power of this framework is tested against the events of the global financial crisis. Despite limited availability of data that can proxy for uncertainty,...

The majority of commentators, along with the public opinion, are inclined to identify the causes of the last financial crisis in a combination of traditional market and regulatory failures in the operation and regulation of financial markets. Whatever cannot be explained along these lines is...