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==The authorities' reactions==
==The authorities' reactions==
<ref>[http://www.federalreserve.gov/BoardDocs/Speeches/2002/20021015/default.htm Ben Bernanke: ''Asset-Price "Bubbles" and Monetary Policy'' (Speech to the New York Chapter of the National Association for Business Economics, New York, New York, October 15 2002) Federal  Reserve Board 2002]</ref>; and in a 2005 lecture, Jean-Claude Trichet,  the President of the European Central Bank, argued that not all  bubbles threaten financial stability, and that if  policy-makers attempted  to eliminate all risk from the financial system, they either fail or they would  "hamper the appropriate functioning of a market economy"<ref>[http://www.ecb.int/press/key/date/2005/html/sp050608.en.html Jean-Claude Trichet: ''Asset price bubbles and monetary policy'',(Mas lecture, 8 June 2005) European Central Bank, 2005]</ref>.
<ref>[http://www.bis.org/review/r090826a.pdf Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada: ''Some Considerations on Using Monetary Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity'', (Speech to the Foreign Policy Association, New York, 19 November 2009)Bank for International Settlements, 2009]</ref>, and by Federal Reserve  Board Governor Frederic Mishkin <ref>[http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/mishkin20080515a.htm Frederic Mishkin: ''How Should We Respond to Asset Price Bubbles'', Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 2008]</ref>
<ref>[http://www.bis.org/review/r090826a.pdf Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of Canada: ''Some Considerations on Using Monetary Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity'', (Speech to the Foreign Policy Association, New York, 19 November 2009)Bank for International Settlements, 2009]</ref>, and by Federal Reserve  Board Governor Frederic Mishkin <ref>[http://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/mishkin20080515a.htm Frederic Mishkin: ''How Should We Respond to Asset Price Bubbles'', Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, October 2008]</ref>



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Background: financial regulation

Post-crash proposals

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The authorities' reactions

[5]; and in a 2005 lecture, Jean-Claude Trichet, the President of the European Central Bank, argued that not all bubbles threaten financial stability, and that if policy-makers attempted to eliminate all risk from the financial system, they either fail or they would "hamper the appropriate functioning of a market economy"[6]. [7], and by Federal Reserve Board Governor Frederic Mishkin [8]

Policy decisions

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