Swaminathan Kalpathy and Amar Gande of SMU COX look a CEO reward packages in bailed out financial firms to see whether leaders of those organisations were particularly incentivised to take excessive risks.
Ciamac Moallemi of Columbia Business School addresses risk in the financial system, and explains why regulating individual firms is unsatisfactory. Regulators need to look at joint outcomes, he says; not just summing up gains and losses, but also considering where losses occur.
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