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Ten years After the Financial Crisis: 'We Are Safer, But Not As Safe As We Should and Could Be'

Thom Wetzer, Faculty of Law | Jure Jeric | Alexandra Zeitz

The bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, now ten years ago, was neither the start nor the peak of the financial crisis. Yet, the demise of the iconic investment bank, the fourth-largest in the United...

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(Don’t) Blame It All on Brexit…

Martin R. Götz | Tobias H. Tröger

A key lesson for policymakers after the financial crisis was to reduce the likelihood of bank bailouts using taxpayers’ funds. Bailing out banks not only stresses public finances – it also undermines...

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Stress Tests and the End of Bank Supervision

Peter Conti-Brown

In the field of banking and financial regulation, the past five years have been nothing short of a revolution. In particular, a key methodological and epistemological change that recently occurred...

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