Central Questions EP. 5: Credit Booms, Crashes and Why Policymakers Act Too Late
Are financial crises really impossible to predict? Harvard economist Andrei Shleifer argues that the warning signs are often visible long before a crisis erupts. Rapid credit growth, deteriorating len...
18 Sep 58min
Central Questions EP. 4: When Does a Boom Become a Crisis? Robin Greenwood on AI, Bubbles and the “Red Zone”
Is the AI boom a bubble, and should we be worried?Robin Greenwood (Harvard Business School) joins formerRiksbank Governor Stefan Ingves to unpack why bubbles form, why they often start with something ...
18 Aug 51min
Central Questions EP. 3: Where Is the Next Financial Crisis Hiding? Banks, Shadow Banking, and Green Finance
In this episode of Central Questions, former RiksbankGovernor Stefan Ingves speaks with Professor Mariassunta Giannetti of the Stockholm School of Economics and Swedish House of Finance about where fi...
13 Juli 50min
Central Questions EP 2: Are Giant Companies Rewriting Capitalism? Yueran Ma on Adam Smith, AI, and the Future of Firms
Two hundred and fifty years after Adam Smith published TheWealth of Nations, the economy looks very different from the world he described.Firms are bigger. Production is more centralized. AI andautoma...
8 Juni 54min
Central Questions EP 1: Financial Literacy Isn't the Issue. The Advice Industry Could Be.
In this episode of Central Questions, former RiksbankGovernor Stefan Ingves speaks with SHoF’s Paolo Sodini about the hidden logic behind how households build—and lose—wealth. They cover household fin...
11 Maj 49min
AI & Machine Learning in Finance: “Does more data mean better forecasts?”
Investors are inundated with more data than ever before. What does an influx of “high-dimensional data” mean for financial forecasting, asset pricing and investment? In this episode, Thierry Foucault,...
29 Nov 202231min
AI & Machine Learning in Finance: The Virtue of Complexity in Financial Machine Learning
Using AI and Machine learning in asset pricing and asset management is in the midst of a boom. But are portfolios based on these richly parameterized models well understood? In this episode, Bryan Kel...
29 Nov 202234min
