Jagjit Chadha's Macro View Point

Friday, 30 November 2012

Do UK Banks Need More Capital?

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Yes.   The Bank of England’s November 2012 Financial Stability Report has made the case for UK banks to shore up their levels of cap...
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Tuesday, 27 November 2012

Fiscal Multiplier and Bank Dividers

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Fiscal multipliers are pretty hard to estimate as they tend not to be particularly stable.   Which is another way of saying that the im...
Monday, 5 November 2012

Prediction markets and Obama Vs Romney

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Four years, I posted a blog on the Iowa Electronic MarketsUS Presidential Election Market .   (For more explanation of the market go ...
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Tuesday, 30 October 2012

Hedges, Credit Default Swaps and the Euro Area - would you credit it?

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About this time very year, as the clocks go back, I ask my students: How do I hedge risk?   Eventually we stumble on the answer which i...
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Monday, 22 October 2012

Did policymakers learn to blow bubbles in 1987?

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We have not yet, as a profession, teased out the contribution to the business cycle from monetary policy actions.   This is, in part, b...
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