Ferguson (2003) described financial instability as “a situation characterized by …three basic criteria: i) some important set of financial asset prices seem to have diverged sharply from fundamentals; and/or ii) market functioning and credit availability, domestically and perhaps internationally, have been significantly distorted; with the result that, iii) aggregate spending deviates (or is likely to deviate) significantly, either above or below, from the economy’s ability to produce”. This definition has a couple of interesting features. First, unlike Davis (2001), Ferguson incor rates the distortion of asset prices into his definition of financial instability. Second, there is explicit coverage of the ultimate impact of financial instability on the macroeconomy, in terms of the impact on aggregate spending.
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