A brief history of our time -- Expectations, knowledge and prices -- Beyond price -- Savings, investment and liquidity -- Models, theories and apples -- Policy implications : finance -- Competition policy -- A new European capital market -- Geopolitics -- Technical annex: do we really need a new...

This paper uncovers if and how insurance companies react to shocks to collateral in their portfolio of securitized assets. We address this question in the context of commercial real estate cash flow shocks, which are informationally opaque to holders of commercial mortgage-backed securities...