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Global Economic Crisis: The Untold Stories
Overview
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The economic bad news keeps coming: a bursting housing bubble, a volatile stock market, restricted credit markets, a recession, and more. How did a crisis in the U.S. housing market grow into a full blown global economic crisis? What do these events mean for the global economy, governments, businesses and average people around the world? How might we evaluate proposed solutions here and abroad?
Join a panel of distinguished UW-Madison professors who will offer different perspectives on the causes, consequences, and potential solutions for the global economic crisis.
Menzie Chinn
Professor of Public Affairs and Economics
Mark Copelovitch
Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Affairs
Edward Friedman
Professor of Political Science
Darian Ibrahim
Assistant Professor of Law
Mark Ready
Jeffrey J. Diermeier Chair of Finance
Date(s)
11/20/2008
Time
7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
Location
Morgridge Auditorium
1100 Grainger Hall
975 University Avenue
Madison, WI
Cost
Free and open to the public
Sponsors
Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE)
Co-sponsors
Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER)
Division of International Studies
Wisconsin School of Business
Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA)
Madison International Trade Association (MITA)
Global Studies
Department of Political Science
Department of Economics
Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs
Stephen L. Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis
UW-Madison Law School
Speaker Biographies
Menzie Chinn is associate director of the La Follette School of Public Affairs and professor of public affairs and economics. His research examines the empirical and policy aspects of macroeconomic interactions between countries. Recent work focuses on whether the euro will surpass the dollar as a reserve currency, the determinants of the trade deficit, how government debt and fiscal policy affect interest rates, and the interaction between capital controls and financial development.
In 2000-2001, Professor Chinn served as senior staff economist for international finance on the Council of Economic Advisers. He is a research associate in the International Finance and Macroeconomics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, senior fellow of WAGE, and on the advisory council of the Institute for International Economics. He has been visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve Board.
Mark Copelovitch is assistant professor of political science and public affairs. Professor Copelovitch studies and teaches international political economy, with a focus on global financial governance, exchange rates and monetary institutions, the effects of global capital flows on national economic policies, and theories of international cooperation.
Copelovitch is working on a book manuscript, Banks, Bonds, and Bailouts: Global Finance and the International Monetary Fund, which explores the influence of changing patterns of financial globalization on IMF lending policies. He is also currently engaged in projects studying the relationship between international trade agreements and exchange rates, the determinants of variation in the design of international institutions, and the influence of global capital flows on fiscal policy.
Edward Friedman’s teaching and research interests include democratization, Chinese politics, international political economy, revolution, and the comparative study of transitions in Leninist States. His most recent books are Chinese Village, Socialist State (1991), The Politics of Democratization: Generalizing the East Asian Experience (1994), National Identity and Democratic Prospects in Socialist China (1995), and What if China doesn't democratize? Implications for war and peace (2001).
Darian Ibrahim’s scholarly interests include corporate and securities law and the intersection of law and entrepreneurship. His current research analyzes and compares the various financing options that are available to high-tech start-ups, including angel finance and venture capital. He has current articles on angel investing, Delaware corporate law, and a macro look at the field of law and entrepreneurship (with Gordon Smith) in the Vanderbilt, Iowa, and Arizona law reviews. At Wisconsin Professor Ibrahim teaches classes in business organizations (public corporations), securities regulation, and a seminar in law and entrepreneurship.
Mark J. Ready is an associate professor of finance and Aschenbrener Faculty Scholar at the Wisconsin School of Business. He recently served as chief economist and director of the Office of Economic Analysis at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Prior to that appointment, he was a member of the Nasdaq’s Economic Advisory Board.
Professor Ready’s research focuses on the functioning of financial markets. For example, his 2006 Review of Financial Studies paper (co-authored with Professor Odders-White), examines the link between a firm's debt ratings and the trading characteristics of the its common stock.