Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/31607 
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Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 523
Publisher: 
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Abstract: 
This paper contrasts the economic incentives implicit in the Keynes-Minsky approach to inherent financial market instability with the incentives behind the traditional equilibrium approach leading to market stability to provide a framework for analyzing the stability induced by the recent changes in bank regulation to modernize financial services and the evolution of financial engineering innovations in the U.S. financial system. It suggests that the changes that have occurred in the profit incentives for bank holding companies have modified the provision of liquidity to the financial system by banks, and the way credit assessment has moved from banks to other actors in the system. It takes the current experience in financial instability created by the expansion, through securitization, of the mortgage market as an example of these changes.
Subjects: 
Financial Markets
Instability
Minsky
Financial Fragility
JEL: 
G1
G21
G24
G28
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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