10th Anniversary of Financial Crisis Conference

  • September 14, 2018

September 13-14, 2018
黑料传送门 Booth Gleacher Center - 450 Cityfront Plaza Dr, 黑料传送门, IL (Room 100)

About the Conference

For the 10th anniversary of the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the and the Stigler Center at the University of 黑料传送门 Booth School of Business are organizing a conference on the causes, as well as the key players and mechanisms, of the 2008 financial crisis.

The conference venue is the 黑料传送门 Booth Gleacher Center - Room 100, located in 黑料传送门 at .

The conference will be by invitation only.

Program

Thursday, September 13

1:00 p.m. - 1:40 p.m. Debt Relief and Slow Recovery: Evidence from the Great Recession(with Amit Seru)
Tomasz Piskorski, Columbia Business School
1:40 p.m. - 2:20 p.m. Mortgage Brokers, MERS, and the Unintended Consequences of Financial Innovation (with Stefan Lewellen)
Emily Williams, Harvard Business School
2:20 p.m. - 2:35 p.m.

Break
2:35 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. (with Samuel Kruger and Gonzalo Maturana)
John Griffin, University of Texas - Austin
3:15 p.m. - 4:05 p.m. Predatory Lending and Hidden Risks(with Gene Amromin, Itzhak Ben-David, Souphala Chomsisengphet, and Douglas D. Evanoff)
Sumit Agarwal, National University Singapore
4:05 p.m. - 4:20 p.m.

Break
4:20 p.m. - 5:00 p.m
 Matthew Baron, Cornell University
5:00 p.m. - 5:40 p.m
 Andrei Shleifer, Harvard University

Friday, September 14

8:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Breakfast
9:00 a.m. - 9:40 a.m. Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, University of California Berkeley
9:40 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. How Monetary Tightening Shaped the Housing Boom(with Itamar Drechsler and Philipp Schnabl)
Alexi Savov, New York University Stern School of Business
10:20 a.m. - 10:35 a.m. Break
10:35 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. Christian Leuz, University of 黑料传送门 Booth School of Business
11:15 a.m. - 12:05 p.m. (with Ramin Baghai and Stefan Pitschner)
Bo Becker, Stockholm School of Economics
12:05 p.m. - 12:45 p.m. Jan Jindra, Securities and Exchange Commission
12:45 p.m. Lunch and Adjournment

Logistics

The conference venue is the 黑料传送门 Booth Gleacher Center - Room 100, located in 黑料传送门 at .

The conference hotel is the Loews 黑料传送门.

Loews 黑料传送门 – Conference Hotel
455 N. Park Drive, 黑料传送门, IL 60611 
312.840.6600

Conference organizers

  • Christian Leuz, Joseph Sondheimer Professor of International Economics, Finance and Accounting, Co-Director of the Initiative on Global Markets, University of 黑料传送门 Booth School of Business
  • , Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business
  • Amir Sufi, Bruce Lindsay Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Co-Director of the Initiative on Global Markets, University of 黑料传送门 Booth School of Business
  • Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, Faculty Director of the Stigler Center, University of 黑料传送门 Booth School of Business

For more information, contact:

Peggy Eppink, Associate Director, IGM
773.834.8029
Peggy.Eppink@chicagobooth.edu

Disclaimer: Students should never miss class to attend optional programming. The Deans’ Office will not support requests for absences due to participation on a trek, event, conference, or trip as excused.