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Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum
March 13, 2008, 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Leveraged Losses: Lessons from the Mortgage Market Meltdown
Anil Kashyap, Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance, presented this year's US Monetary Policy Forum report titled "Leveraged Losses: Lessons from the Mortgage Market Meltdown."
This event is part of the Initiative on Global Markets and is generously sponsored by Myron Scholes.
The Initiative also receives financial support from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Trust and our corporate partners: AQR Capital Management, Barclays Bank PLC, John Deere, and Northern Trust Corporation.
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Speaker Profile
Anil Kashyap is the Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Kashyap joined the facutly in 1991 and currently teaches the courses Corporation Finance and Understanding Central Banks. He serves as one of the faculty Co-Directors of the Chicago GSB Initiative on Global Markets and is a Co-Founder of the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum. Kashyap is also a member of the Bellagio Group of academics and economic officials, a consultant for the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Under the auspices of the National Bureau, he serves as the co-director of a working group that studies the Japanese economy and he serves on the Board of Directors of the Bank of Italy's Einaudi Institute of Economics and Finance. Previously he served as a staff economist for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
He earned his PhD in economics in 1989 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his bachelor's degree in 1982 in economics and statistics from the University of California at Davis.
