The World Bank has counted well over a hundred systemic banking crises in the last quarter of a century. Explanations considered in the vast literature on the subject fall in two categories: real shocks (including fundamental macroeconomic imbalances and bank mismanagement) and monetary shocks...

The desirability of a transactions tax in the foreign exchange market, or Tobin tax, depends on whether the tax deters short-term, destabilizing trade. While supporters claim that the tax would be a deterrent for short-term capital flows, critics contend that the deterrent capability of the tax...

How does Nassim Taleb's notion of uncertainty compare with Keynes's? In describing "black swan events" as rare, consequential, unforecastable events, Taleb has stressed how statistical risk differs from intractable uncertainty. This difference had been similarly underscored by Keynes in his...

The desirability of a transactions tax in the foreign exchange market, or Tobintax, depends on whether the tax deters short-term, destabilizing trade. While supporters claim that the tax would be a deterrent for short-term capital flows, critics contend that the deterrent capability of the tax...

The desirability of a transactions tax in the foreign exchange market, or Tobintax, depends on whether the tax deters short-term, destabilizing trade. While supporters claim that the tax would be a deterrent for short-term capital flows, critics contend that the deterrent capability of the tax...