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“Shadow money should be tamed, not banned”

15 Oct 2018 | Kapp Prize recipient Steffen Murau on what we can learn from the Financial Crisis. An interview by Dr. Bianca Schröder
Congratulations on being awarded the Kapp Prize of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy! In your article you analyse the impact of the 2007–2009 Financial Crisis on the monetary system. How did you approach that topic?
I did the empirical research for this article during a research stay at Columbia University in New York. It is based on publications by international financial institutions and interviews with employees of the Federal Reserve, banks, and the International Monetary Fund. Read more…

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