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Fairness and Financial Markets

Can regulation and financial capability overcome failures in financial markets? Are some types of financial security too important to be left to the markets? Our research looks for answers.


The Government’s New Pension Service Has One Fatal Flaw - Jonquil Lowe

Pension wise
18 February 2015

Pension Wise guidance is intended to highlight key issues, but it misses out the longevity risk which needs to be at the heart of pension decisions.

Fixed Odds Betting Terminals: The Psychology of State-Corporate Harm Maximisation - Steve Tombs and Jim Turner

Gamble aware image
6 February 2015

Slot machines are an enormously profitable industry and generate considerable tax revenues for the UK government, extracting revenue from those who are already economically and socially marginalised.

Goldman Prepares to Muscle in on the Lending Innovation Designed to Sideline Banks - Jonquil Lowe

Goldman Sachs
2 February 2015

Is peer-to-peer lending enabling banks to shift from expensive traditions to more efficient business models? Jonquil Lowe looks at the evidence.

Europe's Lost Art of Money-Making - Alan Shipman

Alan Shipman image
23 January 2015

Alan Shipman suggests that a lack of change in the bonus culture will prevent any increase in equity resulting from the Eurozone's Quantitative Easing programme.

Britain Wants You to Be banker, But Are You Ready for the Risk? - Jonquil Lowe

Monoploy money
22 October 2014

Jonquil Lowe argues that government, as well as peer-to-peer firms, should tread carefully before encouraging savers to take on more risk than we can bear.

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To find out more about our work, or to discuss a potential project, please contact:

International Development Research Office
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes
MK7 6AA
United Kingdom

T: +44 (0)1908 858502
E: international-development-research@open.ac.uk