Using a range of calculative devices, (Mis)managing Macroprudential Expectations explores the methods used by central banks to predict and govern the tail risks that could impact financial stability. Through an in-depth case study, the book utilises empirically-informed theoretical analysis to capture these low-probability and high-impact events, and offers a novel conceptualisation of the role of risk modelling within the macroprudential policy agenda. The book asserts that central banks’ efforts to capture tail risks go beyond macroprudential policy objectives of identifying and monitoring systemic risks to financial stability. It illustrates how the calculation of tail risk contributes to managing the expectations that regulated institutions have around the Bank of England’s macroprudential approach, its willingness to support struggling institutions, and its use of novel macroprudential policy tools. Situating tail risk within the broader realm of climate finance, chapters contend that the identification of future climate tail risks simultaneously reveals opportunities for private profit and non-bank lending within the financial system, in ways that are potentially destabilizing. The book concludes by highlighting the social and political limitations of central banks’ new macroprudential approach. Transdisciplinary in approach, this book will be invaluable to students and scholars interested in the intersections between climate studies, political science and public policy, environmental economics, banking and finance, and political economy. Its practical applications will also be a useful resource to climate and finance policymakers working in central banking.

Finding, Transmitting, Receiving: Hannah Collins collects together, for the first time, wide-ranging work by the artist, photographer and filmmaker from the past fifteen years. The book consists of photographs, film scripts, found family portraits and childhood drawings, and coincides with the opening of an exhibition of Collins' work, at the Fundacion LaCaixa in Madrid and Barcelona. Collins, who has exhibited across the globe including New York, London, Barcelona and Montreal, is celebrated for her large-scale photography installations and films with such diverse subjects as the residents of a village in Central Russia, African immigrants in European cities and gypsies in a Barcelona barrio.The book includes both well known and never before seen pictures well as the complete scripts for her film projects. The book is grouped by concept into five sections: "Events and Conditions," "Finding Transmitting Receiving," "Scripts," "Family and Evidence" and "Pavilions," which both separate out Collins' themes (including the power of place and architecture to communicate historic events and social ideas) and allow the reader to find their own links between the images and ideas that she presents, and to forge their own meanings.

What's a tomango? Why are there stars in the sky? What do you do with an old house you?ve just inherited? Find out about things like a forest of werewolves, an invisible dragon, an ominous tower, a girl with a jaguar companion, being lost in a book and more in this creative collection of stories and poems written entirely by eight story-loving 10-14 year old girls. Who knows, maybe you?ll be inspired to write too! What are you waiting for? Your canvas is blank. What color to use first? Just use your imagination, and go paint something amazing.