In the meantime, the IMF and the G-20 can help by finding better ways to assess the vulnerability of each country’s financial structure – no easy task, given governments’ immense cleverness when it comes to cooking their books. Policymakers can also help find ways to reduce barriers to the development of stock markets, and to advance ideas for new kinds of state-contingent bonds, such as the GDP-linked bonds that Yale’s Robert Shiller has proposed.
与此同时，世界货币基金组织和G20可以研究更有效的方式去评估各国金融架构的脆弱程度——考虑到政府在捏造数据方面的天赋，该任务堪称艰巨。政治制定者们也可以想办法减少阻碍证券市场发展的障碍，并创设一些新的状态依存性债券，比如说耶鲁大学的罗伯特·希勒所提出的与GDP挂钩的债券（理论上，希勒的这种债券在一个国家经济繁荣时支付较多，不景气时则支付较少）。