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Market and policy antecedents and repercussions of the 2008 Financial Crisis and the Great Recession began long before and lasted long after the Lehman bankruptcy in September 2018. This four-part series of presentations and discussions held on four different days during the fall of 2018 aims to delve into the causes, but also to examine the actions and interventions taken during the crisis and the recession, and to draw policy lessons for the future.

Each part of the series will begin with two short paper presentations followed by active discussions and critiques.

This event featured presentations by John Taylor and Monika Piazzesi.
To view the presentations and the full transcript of the proceedings from this event, click here.
 


Presenters

John B. Taylor is the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He chairs the Hoover Working Group on Economic Policy and is director of Stanford’s Introductory Economics Center.

Monika Piazzesi is Professor of Economics at Stanford University. She is also a Research Affiliate at the NBER, a research affiliate for CEPR, a coeditor for the Journal of Political Economy, and an Affiliated Professor at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. In 2007–08, she served as a monetary advisor to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. She researches financial economics, macroeconomics, and applied time series and has developed influential models of the yield curve for bonds. She has received numerous awards for her teaching and research.

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