On Friday, October 5, the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Center for International Securities and Derivative Markets will hold its annual day-long CISDM research conference. As we approach 10th anniversary of the global economic crisis, the conference will delve into the long-term implications of the “Great Recession” and lessons learned since.
The conference will feature presentations and discussions on diverse topics including government response, changes in behavioral frame of mind, rationality, liquidity in markets, derivatives, financial institutions and other crisis-related topics. Dr. Andrei Shleifer, John L. Loeb Professor of Economics at Harvard University, will keynote.
Respected experts and industry leaders also speaking at the event:
-Dr. Gikas Hardouvelis, Professor of Finance and Economics at Greece’s University of Piraeus
-Dr. Ricardo Caballero, The Ford International Professor of Economics, Director, World Economic Laboratory (MIT)
-Dr. Anna Kovner, Vice President and Policy Leader for Financial Stability at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
-Dr. Hamid Mehran, Corporate Finance Researcher, former Assistant Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Who: Macroeconomic, finance and business experts including Dr. Gikas Hardouvelis, Dr. Andrei
Shleifer, Dr. Ricardo Caballero, Dr. Anna Kovner and Dr. Hamid Mehran.
What: CISDM Annual Research Conference 2018
When: Friday, October 6, 2017 8:30 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Where: Marriott Center at UMass Amherst
1 Campus Center Way
Amherst, MA 01003
