Co-Investigator, Systemic Risk Centre
Kevin James
Co-investigators/Programme Directors
Economist
Research interests: financial market efficiency and effectiveness, systemic risk, corporate finance, and asset management.
Publications
Ideas, Idea Processing, and TFP Growth in the US: 1899 to 2019
Innovativity – an economy's ability to produce the innovations that drive total factor productivity (TFP) growth – requires both ideas and the ability...
DP 121
Rebooting UK financial regulation for the post-Brexit world
Recognising the critical role that financial markets will play in the success of the UK’s post-Brexit economy, the Treasury is now engaged in a review...
Dollars or Pence? Choosing a framework for US-China trade
Given that China is a strategic and economic rival to the US, the Trump administration’s framework for US-China trade makes far more sense than one...
The Efficient IPO Market Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence
We derive the optimal underwriting method and the quantitative IPO pricing rule that this method implies in a market with informational frictions...
DP 87
Can We Prove a Bank Guilty of Creating Systemic Risk? A Minority Report
Since increasing a bank's capital requirement to improve the stability of the financial system imposes costs upon the bank, a regulator should ideally...
DP 47
Model risk and the implications for risk management, macroprudential policy, and financial regulations
Risk forecasting is central to financial regulations, risk management, and macroprudential policy. This column raises concerns about the reliance on...
Model Risk of Risk Models
This paper evaluates the model risk of models used for forecasting systemic and market risk. Model risk, which is the potential for different models...
DP 11
