Economics Malaysia

There’s a fascinating new working paper at the NBER that examines how the confluence of ratings and regulation conspired to help create the ...

I think I’ve finally settled down enough to start writing for the blog again, but posts will be a little sporadic still until I feel like I’...

It seems to be my day to get beaten to the gun. I was going to write a post on this issue, but Lars got there first (excerpt): Please...

As always in such matters, the answer is: it depends (excerpt; emphasis added): Should Policy Makers in Emerging Markets be Concerned...

Credit rating agencies aren’t perfect – in fact, far from it. Ratings can sometimes (often?) be inaccurate guides to the potential for debt ...

BNM isn’t wasting much time (excerpt, emphasis added): Measures to Further Promote a Sound and Sustainable Household Sector Ban...

BAFIA is no more; long live the FSA (excerpt): Financial Services Act 2013 and Islamic Financial Services Act 2013 Come Into Force ...

I’m conscious of the fact that there are many more readers of this blog than there used to be, and not many have a background in economics. ...

Announced yesterday, among the first moves under the new Financial Sector Blueprint: Liberalisation measures to develop the domestic ...

VoxEU has a new compilation of the latest European thinking on  reforming finance. While a lot of it is in EconoEnglish, I think many will ...

Responsible corporate citizen or conniving oligopolist? I’ll plop for the former for now, despite the inherent conflict of interest in the C...

Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto has an unconventional perspective on the causes of the Great Recession (excerpts): The Destructio...

I really like this article, not least because it backs some of my instincts regarding some of the underlying issues underlying Malaysia'...

So says the Forex Blog (excerpt): EU Ponders Tobin Tax Only two years after the worst financial crisis in decades, the DJIA is ...

Also from Monday’s news (excerpt): No-deposit housing package for low, middle income group KUALA LUMPUR: Syarikat Perumahan Ne...

Just a quick post to a question posed by Wenger J Khairy in my post on SRR : Why is the bank sitting pretty on a pile of cash? ...

I usually publish only the abstracts when highlighting research papers, but this one’s so fascinating and not a little controversial from a ...

From the World Bank blog (excerpts): The Day After Tomorrow: Macro-Financial Policy Catches Up With Reality The 2008–09 crisis ...

Tun Dr Mahathir on free markets, regulation and gold: Dr M: Banking, finance need to be regulated …Former prime minister Tun Dr...

I’ve an awful lot of research papers that I want to highlight, in addition to going through the ETP proposals in detail. As such there won’t...