Prof. Jayanth R. Varma's Financial Markets Blog

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These podcasts cover my blog posts on financial markets and their regulation

Prof. Jayanth R. Varma


    • Nov 2, 2019 LATEST EPISODE
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    QE through unlimited buying of foreign equities

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2019 3:03


    Central banks could buy foreign equities when they run out of other assets to buy

    Can India seize the Hong Kong opportunity?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2019 2:21


    Hong Kong protests could be an opportunity for India's offshore financial centre

    When do algorithms violate the law

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2019 2:52


    A recent judgement of the Australian Federal Court shows that financial sector regulators are by and large unprepared for the challenge of regulating a financial world that is increasingly run on algorithms.

    Real Estate and Infrastructure Resolution in India

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2019 3:47


    Prof. Sebastian Morris and I propose a mechanism to resolve the stress in infrastructure and real estate by using financial markets for price discovery with the sovereign covering the left tail risk.

    Abstraction bias or bias bias?

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2019 5:10


    I argue that Steven L. Schwarcz' paper on abstraction bias as a cause of excessive risk-taking is an instance of what Gigerenzer called the bias bias - the tendency to spot biases even when there are none.

    Legal theory of finance redux

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2019 3:54


    Emily Strauss' paper on how during the Global Financial Crisis, judges in the US interpreted a boilerplate contractual clause to reach a result clearly at odds with its plain language demonstrates that the law is elastic as argued by Katherina Pistor.

    Reserve Bank of India's flip-flops on floating rate benchmarks

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2019 5:27


    The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has engaged in a series of flip-flops on whether floating rate loans should be pricied using internal or external benchmarks. Illiquid term money markets and inadequate competition in banking are to blame.

    No Easy Fixes for Limited Liability

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 2, 2019 3:24


    Many proposals for fixing modern finance ignore the ability to replicate one instrument with another set of instruments.

    A petty money dispute holds market to ransom

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 5:29


    SEBI should step in to protect integrity of clearing

    US wants to nurture single stock futures

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 4:56


    US had no SSFs till recently but is now encouraging them

    Korea Derivatives Full Circle

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 1:57


    Lessons from Korean equity derivatives market

    Big Tech 2019 = Big Finance 2005 = Big Risk?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 1:37


    Businesses and individuals need to derisk big tech

    Deep fakes in finance?

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 2:55


    Deep fakes might become a problem in finance

    The bankers, by contrast, moved on

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 1:40


    Bankers did well in 1918 and in 2008

    Allowing a corporate body to be a director

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 5:22


    Deep pocketed LLCs might be good independent directors

    Bonds and loans

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 2:55


    Illiquid bonds are like loans

    Blockchain in Finance

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 8, 2019 4:37


    Future of the blockchain in finance

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