Wednesday, August 19, 2009

MORAL HAZARD

Why we need to regulate the banks sooner, not later
There are problems with the view that the costs of greater bank regulation outweigh the benefits, and that the issue for the financial sector was a botched Lehman bail-out. The problem of moral hazard – created by the bank bail-outs – remains,

argues Kenneth Rogoff - professor of economics at Harvard University.

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