How Did Financial-Crisis-Based Criticisms of Market Efficiency Get it so Wrong?

Financial Regulation after the Crisis: How Did We Get Here, and How Do We Get Out?

Following the global financial crisis of 2007–09, regulatory authorities either are or should be engaging in a fundamental reconsideration of how they approach financial regulation and supervision. This paper briefly summarizes the present international consensus on regulation as embodied in the Basel framework. It looks at how we came to be in such a situation, and proposes a restart of the pr...

How textbooks (and learners) get it wrong: A corpus study of modal auxiliary verbs

Many  elements  contribute  to  the  relative  difficulty  in  acquiring  specific  aspects  of  English  as  a foreign  language  (Goldschneider  &  DeKeyser,  2001).  Modal  auxiliary  verbs  (e.g.  could,  might), are  examples  of  a  structure  that  is  difficult  for  many  learners.  Not  only  are  they  particularly complex  semantically,  but  especially  in  the  Malaysian  context ...

"How did it get so late so soon?": Tips and tricks for managing time.

The human lung: did evolution get it wrong?

Some 300 million yrs ago, the ancestors of modern reptiles emerged from water and were committed to air breathing. They were exothermic and incapable of sustained levels of high physical activity. But from them evolved the two great classes of vertebrates with high levels of maximal oxygen consumption: the mammals and birds. A remarkable feature of these two divergent evolutionary lines is that...

Commentary: Epidemiology and futurology--why did Rothman get it wrong?