Academic analysis of Silicon Valley Bank 

Charles Read, an affiliated lecturer for the Faculty, has an opinion piece in the Conversation regarding the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank. He looks at how interest rates helped trigger its collapse and what central bankers should do next. Read More>>

Published on - Wednesday 15th March 2023

Silicon Valley

Banks

Finance

Interest Rates

Nobel Prize in Economics and The Keynes Fund 

Director of the Keynes Fund, Dr Toke Aidt congratulates Ben Bernanke, Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig, for winning the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences 2022. The Keynes Fund provides generous grants for work in the subject area of policies that prevent financial crises.

Published on - Tuesday 11th October 2022

Awards

Financial Crisis

Banks

Policy

Banks Do Not Create Money Out Of Thin Air 

In recent years, some have claimed that banks create money ‘ex nihilo’. In the most read column this month for VoXEU "Banks Do Not Create Money Out Of Thin Air", Dr. Pontus Rendahl and (PhD Student) Lukas B. Freund explain that banks do not create money out of thin air, that there are no magic money trees.

Published on - Tuesday 7th January 2020

Banks

Banking

Monetary

Anil Ari "Sovereign Risk and Bank Risk-Taking" 

Former PhD student Anil Ari (currently at International Monetary Fund) will present his paper "Sovereign Risk and Bank Risk-Taking" at the NBER International Finance and Macroeconomic Meeting, in Cambridge MA, March 8th-9th 2018.

Published on - Monday 5th March 2018

Sovereign Risk

Banks

Risks