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Financial Crisis Speakers Series

John Kwoka, Finnegan Professor of Economics, invites all members of the university community to attend special sessions of his class on “Bubbles, Busts, and Bailouts: Market and Regulatory Failures in the Financial Crisis.”

These sessions feature prominent guest speakers, listed below. Classes are from 2:50 to 4:30 and will take place in Shillman 335.

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Date Speaker Topic
Monday, January 30 Vikram Mansharamani Market and Bubbles
Author of BoomBustology: Spotting Financial Bubbles before They Burst (2011)Lecturer at Yale, teaching seminar “Financial Booms and Busts”Global equity investor
Wednesday, February 15 Andrew Sum Crisis in Wages and Salaries
Professor of Economics, Northeastern UniversityDirector of Center for Labor Market StudiesAuthor or co-author of The Great Recession of 2007-2009, plus much else
Wednesday, February 29 Lawrence White Credit Ratings Agencies
Professor of Economics, Stern School of Business, NYUFormer Member, Federal Home Loan Bank Board; also of Freddie MacAuthor, The S&L Debacle (1991) and Guaranteed to Fail (2011)
Monday, March 19 Robert Kuttner Influence Peddling
Co-founder and co-editor of The American ProspectCo-founder of Economic Policy InstituteAuthor of Obama’s Challenge and Debtor’s Prison, among much else
Wednesday, April 4 F.M. Scherer “Too Big to Fail”
Aetna Professor of Public Policy, Kennedy School, HarvardAuthor of Industrial Market Structure and Economic Performance, much elseAuthority on scale economies, industry policy, and financial sector

RSVP - Financial Crisis Speaker Series