Is Financial Innovation Good for the Economy?

There has been a great deal of financial innovation in recent decades but its social value is unclear. In the run-up to 2008, banks took large amounts of risk relative to the size of the economy. This approach was made possible by and sometimes justified in terms of "innovation." But it al...

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Main Authors: Johnson, Simon (Contributor), Kwak, James (Author)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Chicago Press, 2019-03-08T17:23:30Z.
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