Thursday, October 2, 2008, noon-1.45 pm
Booth Auditorium, UC Berkeley School of Law
Video Recording:
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Related Materials
A Guide to the Financial Bailout Legislation (The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 by John P. Hunt.
Mortgage Credit Market Crisis Leverage, Conterparty Risk, and Asymmetric Information Powerpoint presentation by Prof. Nancy Wallace.
The program was free and open to the public
A panel of distinguished scholars from UC Berkeley analyzed how the financial market meltdown in the Fall of 2008 occurred, evaluated the government’s response, and explained its impact on American households and global markets.
Panelists:
George A. Akerlof (Moderator)
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 & Economics
Barry Eichengreen
George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics
Professor of Economics & Political Science
John Quigley
Interim Dean, Richard & Rhoda Goldman School of Public Policy
I. Donald Terner Distinguished Professor of Economics, Public Policy and Business
Nancy Wallace
Professor, Haas School of Business
Co-Chair, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics
Co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law and Business and the IGS Center on Institutions & Governance