Would the simple 4 per cent rule have uncovered that there was a crisis in the offing?
The aftermath of the recent financial crisis has demonstrated that lax fiscal policy may have widespread and severe consequences. In this paper, we examine how selected variables may be useful indicators of an unsustainable fiscal/economical condition.

When is the banking industry too large?
A government may have only a limited capacity to rescue its banking sector if a crisis should occur. Based on the experiences from the recent international crisis, this note discusses how large the banking sector can become before the rescue capacity of the government becomes insufficient.