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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 features presentations by John Cochrane and Darrell Duffie.
To view the presentations and the full transcript of the proceedings from this event, click here.


Presenters

John H. Cochrane is the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an adjunct scholar of the CATO Institute.

Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and professor (by courtesy) in the Department of Economics at Stanford University.

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