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Modern Finance Is Seeing Historic Levels of Speculation
Not surprisingly, the 2008–2009 global financial crisis sent many financial professionals looking to history for a sense of appropriate context and perspective to understand the magnitude of such a catastrophic financial shock. This, in turn, sparked a general interest in financial history, but with few professional sources to turn to. At the 2014 Middle East Investment Conference, professor Adrian Bell, head of the ICMA Centre at the University of Reading’s Henley Business School considered the question of whether or not modern finance existed in the Middle Ages. Read More
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Tagged Adrian Bell, financial history, Interest rates
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How the Middle Ages Handled “Too Big to Fail”
Adrian Bell’s research has found systemic risks and financial crises dating back to medieval Europe. Read More
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Tagged Interest rates, Middle Ages, Systemic Risk, TBTF, Wool
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