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Abstract

Britain's liability-driven investment crisis in fall 2022 had lessons for other major financial centers that, as evidenced by the US and Swiss banking crises only a few months later, were largely ignored. They are still relevant. In this article, I first discuss what drove the British crisis before identifying lessons for the microregulation of pension funds; for financial stability policy on shadow banking and beyond; for central banking balance sheet regimes, including lending of last resort and market making of last resort; and for monetary policy when fiscal policy makers sit on their hands.

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