Since its initiation in July 1988 of the agreement on international bank capital adequacy, the Basle Committee of Supervisors has been working on ways to extend it to cover banks' market risks. There has been a dramatic growth in the volume of these risks during recent years. The European...

The work seeks to better understand how economic thought changes at policy institutions, as compared to academic institutions. The prevalence of academic economics during the 1970s introduced pronounced changes in the Annual Economic Reports of the European Commission. These changes, touted by...