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Stability in International Finance
Why are international fi nancial systems unstable? To understand this, one must use
a proper model for a fi nancial market—a model which is not just normative but
empirically valid. The traditional market model of price-equilibrium, while valid for
commodity markets, is not empirically valid for fi nancial markets. Instead, fi nancial
markets must be understood in a price-disequilibrium model. A price- disequilibrium
model traces back to the studies of Irving Fisher, John Maynard Keynes, and Hyman
Minsky.
We present here a three-dimensional supply-demand model which can depict
how, over time, a fi nancial market can move from a price-equilibrium toward pricedisequilibrium, due to speculation—a fi nancial bubble.
Financial bubbles occurred in the Asian Financial crisis in 1989, the Global
Financial crisis in 2007–2008, and the Euro crisis of 2010–2015; and these bubbles
have depressed national economies. They recur, despite the sophisticated
information- communications technology of the modern Internet. Why?
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