Institute for New Economic Thinking
Claudio Borio: The Challenge of Large, Complex Financial Institutions (2/7)
The panelists discuss large complex financial institutions at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011. The speaker in this segment is Claudio Borio, Deputy Head of Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Bill Black: Financial Regulations In Paralysis
Bill Black knows banks. As a federal litigator in the late 1980s, Black played a central role in prosecuting the corruption responsible for the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s. Since then he’s become one of America's top...
Global Ethics Solutions
Dirty Money! Three Stages of Money Laundering
The video will help learners know the three stages of the money laundering process, understand the forms of money laundering, how to identify the common money laundering schemes, and how look for warning signs and signals in each stage...
AllTime 10s
10 Ways Cryptocurrencies Are Changing The World
With the massive breakout of crytocurrencies in 2017 and the likes of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple gaining multi billion dollar market values, it is clear that the monetary world is changing. But what effects will it have?
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Full Interview with the Author of the new "Capitalism 4.0"
The INET Executive Director engages the author in an in-depth conversation that ranges through many of the big themes at the core of what the new Institute is about. Anatole Kaletsky interviewed by Robert Johnson in New York City, June...
Curated Video
Financing Your Business: A Guide to Approaching Investors and Securing Funding
The video is a guide for aspiring entrepreneurs on how to finance the launch of a business. It provides various avenues of financing and practical ways to approach investors, including friends and family, veteran programs, microlenders,...
Curated Video
The Purpose and Importance of Financial Regulation in the Banking Sector
In this lecture presentation, the speaker discusses the purpose and importance of financial regulation within the banking and financial sector. The speaker explains the various risks involved in banking, including credit risk, market...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Paul Martin: Taking A Stand On Financial Regulation
Canada has long received credit for its economic turnaround under the stewardship of Paul Martin, the country’s former prime minister and finance minister. In general, Martin has received justifiable plaudits but often for the wrong...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Anat Admati: The Challenge of Large, Complex Financial Institutions (5/7)
The panelists discuss large complex financial institutions at INET's Bretton Woods Conference on April 9, 2011. The speaker in this segment is Anat Admati, Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford University. The other panelists...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Simon Johnson: Too Big to Fail and the State of Finance Today
Welcome to our new video series titled "New Economic Thinking." The series will feature dozens of conversations with leading economists on the most important issues facing economics and the global economy today. This episode features...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Understanding the Economics of Networks
Prof. Sanjeev Goyal explains his general theory of network formation based on individual incentives, and their economic implications
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Gerald Epstein - Banks: How Big Is too Big?
We all know it: The financial sector is bloated and banks are too big to fail. But just how bloated is it, and how much should it be shrunk? Gerald Epstein and his collaborator James Crotty use both micro and macro data to deliver the...
ShortCutsTv
Policing the Night
This film looks at how social control in the Night-Time Economy of pubs and clubs is increasingly created and maintained by professional Bouncers rather than the police.
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Brunnermeier: Europe’s Future Will Be Settled By a Battle of Ideas
Interviewed by Institute President Rob Johnson, Princeton Professor Markus Brunnermeier — co-author of Europe and the Battle of Ideas — sees the fate of the embattled European union as depending on the outcome of a battle of ideas...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich: Optimal Currency Areas and Governance - The Challenge of Europe (1/8)
Carl-Ludwig Holtfrerich compares the current Euro crisis with the US debt crisis in the 1840s, when the US had a common currency and a fully-fledged central government, and nine out of 27 US states defaulted. That crisis, he says, did...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Financial Reform in a Crisis: The Swedish Solution
Whenever the question is raised about the appropriateness of the bailouts for our largest financial institutions during the most recent financial crisis, the usual response among people who defend the idea is to suggest that without...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
The Economy’s Cuban Missile Crisis
In 2008 a global financial meltdown was just barely contained. But Adam Tooze says that the crisis of confidence has had long aftershocks. Adam Tooze, Columbia University historian and author of the new book Crashed: How a Decade of...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Edward Kane: Beyond Dodd-Frank
For federal regulators, the Dodd-Frank Act (DFA) of 2010 resembles an earthquake so massive that its aftershocks threaten to go on forever. The overarching purpose of this legislation is to end the perception that very large financial...
Curated Video
Understanding Leverage Ratio in Banking
This is a video discussing the leverage ratio and its importance in measuring a bank's capital reserves relative to the loans it has taken on. The video discusses how the regulator sets a minimum leverage ratio for banks and how this...
Curated Video
Alternative Monetary Policy Tools: Understanding Quantitative Easing
The video is a detailed explanation of quantitative easing and its impact as an alternative monetary policy tool. The speaker starts by explaining the need for QE when banks have exhausted their ability to use the Bank rate to influence...
Curated Video
Understanding Gearing Ratio and How to Alter It
The video explains the concept of gearing ratio in finance. It defines non-current liabilities and capital employed, and shows how to calculate the ratio using a live example. It also discusses the impact of high and low levels of...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Andrew Haldane: Creating a Socially Useful Financial System 2/5
Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability, Bank of England, speaking at the breakout panel entitled "How Can We Create a Financial System That Is Socially Useful?" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET)...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Discussion and Q&A: Instability in Financial Markets 5/5
Discussion and Q&A at the breakout panel entitled "Instability in Financial Markets: Sources and Remedies" at the Institute for New Economic Thinking's (INET) Paradigm Lost Conference in Berlin. April 14, 2012. #inetberlin