We need to understand the impact of particularly large players in the options market on shorter-term price developments and need to find ways to assess the maturity of these markets. Our goal should be to be able to routinely extract probability density functions for inflation expectations based on a robust methodology, as we already do for short-term interest rates or stock indices.
Yet we must ask ourselves why are there so few women in the corporate board rooms or in Parliament? Why are so many women confined to the informal sector? Why do women own only a third of all SMEs in Africa? Why are SMEs owned by women more likely to be smaller than those owned by men?