By Noël Amenc, Professor of Finance, EDHEC Business School and Director, EDHEC-Risk Institute
It has become fashionable to blame the financial industry for its alleged role in the current crisis. It is certainly true that high-flying bankers, who often arrogantly flaunt their large bonuses and academic achievements, are the perfect scapegoats. However, with the facts at hand, this search for an ideal culprit is perhaps a bit too simple to be fair. In the present article, we review several issues over the past five years in which political expedience seems to have taken precedence over scientific facts.
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