40 - Anat Admati on Debt, Equity, and Financial Instability

Published: Jan. 16, 2017, 11:53 a.m.

b'Anat Admati is the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford University\\u2019s Graduate School of Business and co-author of the book, *The Bankers\\u2019 New Clothes: What\\u2019s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It.* She joins the show to discuss her book, which argues that America\\u2019s banking system continues to be dangerously fragile even in the aftermath of the Dodd-Frank Act. Anat argues that banks take on too much leverage and that they should be required to hold more equity. David\\u2019s blog: http://macromarketmusings.blogspot.com/ Anat\\u2019s Stanford profile: https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/faculty/anat-r-admati David\\u2019s Twitter: @davidbeckworth Anat\\u2019s Twitter: @anatadmati Related: *The Bankers\\u2019 New Clothes: What\\u2019s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It* by Anat Admati and Martin Hellwig http://bankersnewclothes.com/ Anat\\u2019s paper, \\u201cIt Takes a Village to Maintain a Dangerous Financial System\\u201d http://bankersnewclothes.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Takes-a-Village-May-2016.pdf'