Research in Financial Fragility: Causes, Effects and Measurements
A special issue of International Journal of Financial Studies (ISSN 2227-7072).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 331
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Interests: banking and financial services; financial regulation; financial fragility and stability
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Dear Colleagues,
The debate on financial stability vs financial instability is well rooted in the academic literature, following the debate between neo-classical mainstream finance and post-Keynesian economists. The concept of “financial fragility” is an indicator of vulnerability of the financial system to shocks, possibly leading to finanial instability and crises.
Before the fall of the Lehman Brothers in September 2008, financial fragility was a niche topic in the finance literature. But the Lehman crisis led to one of the largest banking and financial crises in the US and Europe since the Great Depression in the 1930s, thereby raising renewed interest by researchers on the fragility of the banking and financial system.
In this Special Issue, we invite for submission new academic research papers, with policy relevance, studying the fragility of banks, the eurozone, securities markets, the shadow banking system, or other key parts of the financial system.
Prof. Dr. Harald Benink
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- financial fragility
- financial (in)stability
- financial crises
- financial regulation
- financial supervision
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