Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 June 2015

Committee of Inquiry into the Banking Crisis

Nexus Phase

Mr. John McCarthy:

-----and, just ... sorry, if I could, just, Deputy, the assumption at the time was that, within financial markets, you had this efficiency markets hypothesis, which I think you referred to. The assumption was that markets were fully efficient, that the cost of capital was simply the policy rate plus a term premium, a liquidity premium, and so forth, and once you had the price or the cost of capital, financial intermediation then brought savers and investors together and everything was kosher. That was proved to be incorrect.

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