Information risk is an endogenous element of the market dynamics that can be independent from contingent levels of market efficiency. Being structural, it may require to be remunerated by a specific risk premia or by returns from specific portfolio strategies. Drivers of information risk are...

This lecture outlines an asymmetric information theory of financial instability which describes the fundamental forces which harm both the financial sector and economic activity. This asymmetric information framework is then used to demonstrate that although international capital movements and...