Coordinated by Mauro F. Guillen, Wharton professor of management and sociology, and director of the Joseph H. Lauder Institute for Management & International Studies, this series of lectures features Wharton’s preeminent faculty discussing the economic, political, and policy aspects of both the global and U.S. economic and financial crisis. These lectures address such topics as macroeconomic aspects of the crisis, financial innovation, global contagion, the role of central banks and multilateral agencies, and the impact of the crisis on banks, stock markets, insurance, and private equity.
