Global Financial Market Turmoil: A Panel Discussion

A panel of distinguished scholars from UC Berkeley will analyze how the recent financial market meltdown occurred, evaluate the government's response, and explain its impact on American households and global markets.

This event is free and open to the public.

Thursday, October 2, 2008
12:00 - 1:45 pm
Booth Auditorium, UC Berkeley School of Law
Location Map: http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/DE67.html

Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law, Business and the Economy and the IGS Center on Institutions & Governance

 

 

Panelists

Moderator
George A. Akerlof
Koshland Professor of Economics
2001 Nobel Laureate in Economics

J. Bradford DeLong
Professor of Economics
Department of Economics

Aaron Edlin
Richard W. Jennings Professor of Law
Professor of Law and Economics

Barry Eichengreen
George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics
Professor of Economics and Political Science

John Quigley
Interim Dean, Richard and Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy
I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Business

Nancy Wallace
The California Chair of Real Estate and Urban Economics, Haas School of Business
Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics

For further information contact: bclbe@law.berkeley.edu or igov@berkeley.edu. The contact phone number at BCLBE is 510-642-0532.

Resources

A video recording of this event is available at http://www.law.berkeley.edu/files/bclbe/20081002-gfmt-bclbe-ref.mov (QuickTime).

A Guide to the Financial Bailout Legislation (The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008), John Hunt