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Shin’s long collaboration with Tobias Adrian produced the seminal paper “Liquidity and Leverage,” which mapped how mark-to-market balance sheets turn rising asset prices into procyclical leverage — and how the reverse produces violent feedback loops.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

“So the procyclical market rotation is taking a breather today and growth is outperforming value, large cap is outperforming mid cap.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 7, 2026

Instead, it has everything to do with where we are in the economic cycle and the fact that credit businesses like banking are remarkably procyclical.

From Slate • May 11, 2017