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De-Detour: FCIC Economists' Forum

By Anna Gelpern

I spent most of Friday at the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission forum, which we are hosting at the American University Washington College of Law.  I am going back on Saturday morning.  The forum is open to the public, the papers are posted, and the proceedings are webcast live.  At a minimum, this is a pretty high-end conference, featuring some of the top names in the crisology business:  Brunnermeier, Geanakoplos, Gorton, Gourinchas, Jaffee, Kashyap, Kroszner, Lusardi and Mayer.  The presentations are quite accessible, reflecting the FCIC?s public inquiry mission. If it is any indication, a goodly number of my students came, stayed awhile, and seemed to leave happy.  Even where the underlying material is not new, I have found the exchanges among the panelists and the commissioners well worth tuning in for. A rare mix of economics and civics.

Full post as published by Credit Slips on February 27, 2010 (boomark / email).