Finance
Lectures
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Tinbergen Institute Finance
Lectures 2011
Information & registration:
Liquidity and financial crises
11269 | www.crasborn.nl
Graduate school and Institute for economic research of Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Amsterdam and VU University Amsterdam
Date:
September
26-29, 2011
Venue:
Tinbergen
Institute
Amsterdam
Professor Bengt Holmstrom
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
The Tinbergen Institute Lectures are an annual series of advanced PhD-level courses.
Bengt Holmstrom, Paul A. Samuelson Professor of Economics at Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, will present this year`s finance lectures. Popular accounts
of the global financial crisis have been looking for guilty parties. Before blaming
human weaknesses, it is all important to understand to what extent the crisis
was due to fundamental weaknesses in the financial system. A set of identifiable
approaches and models, building on insights from modern corporate finance and
contract theory, have emerged that have proved helpful in thinking about the
financial crisis in a more structured way. The lectures will be structured around
three topics: the demand for and supply of liquidity; the role of debt; fragility and
panics.
Registration closes September 1, 2011