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  1. Conference paper

    Finance and Growth: When Credit Helps, and When it Hinders

    By Dirk Bezemer

    Apr 2012

    The financial sector can support growth but it can also cause crisis. The present crisis has exposedgaps in economists’ understanding of this dual potential.

  2. How Can We Create a Financial System That Is Socially Useful?

    Featuring Dirk Bezemer, Andy Haldane, John Kay, and Katharina Pistor

    Apr 13, 2012 | 06:55—08:45

    Many feel that due to its size and scale the financial system has become a burden on society rather than a servant to it. What are the key elements of a productive financial sector?

  3. Years granted: 2011, 2012

    Economic Thinking and Buddhist Thinking

    Led by Ronald Wintrobe

    This research projects aims to understand Buddhist thinking in rational choice terms and apply that to some important contemporary economic problems.