Instead, if you think in terms of "how can we optimally regulate so that banks have only incentives to do great things and no incentives to take excess risk," you are on the wrong track.From Arnold Kling, who argues that if you cannot imagine a world without deposit insurance [...]
If everyone scans the headlines and sees "Great Depression," that could very well cause a drop in consumption. And if everyone scans the headlines and sees "recovery," they might spend more.
We could also observe herd behavior among producers. I have [...]
I think Arnold Kling is onto something here: If everyone scans the headlines and sees "Great Depression," that could very well cause a drop in consumption. And if everyone scans the headlines and sees "recovery," they might spend more.
We could also observe herd behavior among producers. I [...]