Robert Merton on Financial Innovation and Crisis

By Paul Kedrosky · April 5, 2009 · ·

Interesting MIT talk from Harvard economist Robert Merton (Nobel 1997) on the role of puts (credit default swaps in particular) as sources of both financial innovation and crisis:

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