Financial and Monetary Systems

What is systemic risk and how does it lead to a banking crisis?

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How is it possible that the collapse of a relatively small financial institution could be so contagious? Image: Unsplash/Sean Pollock

Spiros Bougheas
Professor of Economics, University of Nottingham
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