Banking regulation has been extensively discussed by many politicians, economists, and regulatory agencies after the subprime meltdown in 2007. I decided to write about this topic after following an interesting lecture about Competition Policy in Financial Markets. The lecturer Prof. dr. Maarten Pieter Schinkel specializes in competition economics and regulation at the UvA. Like any other
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What do Dutch tulips, tech stocks and U.S. residential mortgages have in common? They were all 3 part of the largest asset bubbles in history that eventually exploded after a period of time. Approximately 400 years ago The Netherlands suffered the first irrational asset bubble in the entire history called Tulipmania. After a while, bubbles
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Strategic Interaction in the U.S. Government Bond market
On the 20th January of 2017, it was the inauguration day of the 45th president of the United States: Donald John Trump. Many economists argued that the election of the American businessman would lead to geopolitical time bombs between the U.S. and other large open economies. One of the main objectives of the Trump administration
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