Articles
Articles and analyses from the INET community on the key economic questions of our time.

How This Regional Bank Mortgage Lender Crisis is Different
Every banking crisis has its own overarching narratives and coincidental streams of various sub-narratives that course through the marketplace day to day.

Fatima Denton: We Need to Create Spaces to Democratize the ‘Just Transition’
“We need to look at the early warning systems in place and aspire to attain food security.”

Merger Tests in Practice: A Critical Analysis
Current tests for mergers are in practice deeply flawed.
Bank Stocks Rallied Today, But…

Anatomy of a Banking Crisis
There is a banking crisis. Again. Banking regulators were asleep at the switch. Again.

How to Stop Bank Runs and Get Taxpayers Off the Hook
A federal government guarantee or 100% reserve banking? Which is better?
Now Is the Time for More Ambition From Multilateral Development Banks and Their Shareholders
SVB RIP: A Look Backward

Emerging Markets and the Balance of Payments: Challenges to Growth and Sustainability
A model that captures key vulnerabilities and structural weaknesses of developing countries’ trade and production structures.

Ayn Rand vs. Elinor Ostrom: The Fight for the Future of Social Media
The contrasting ideologies at play in this tech sector mirror the conflicting ideologies in economics
Victoria Chick (1936-2023)


The Post-Covid Global Economy: Could Negative Supply Shocks Disrupt Other Fragile Systems?
Possible repercussions of economic crisis on the stability of democracies that already show significant signs of fragility
Time Bomb in Global Finance

Bankman-Fried, Political Money, and the Crash of FTX
How Showering Money on Both Parties Paralyzed Regulators