The Economic and Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options

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.


WEEKS 1-4     WEEKS 5-8     WEEKS 9-12     WEEK 13


Lecture 1: The Crisis and the Markets
Jeremy Siegel, Russell E. Palmer Professor of Finance
January 20, 2009
Lecture 2: Global Perspectives: Emerging Markets
Howard Pack, Professor of Business and Public Policy, Economics, and Management
January 27, 2009
Lecture 3: Global Perspectives: China
Marshall Meyer, Richard A. Sapp Professor; Professor of Management and Sociology
February 3, 2009
Lecture 4: Impact on the Private Equity Industry
Raffi Amit, Robert B. Goergen Professor of Entrepreneurship; Professor of Management
February 10, 2009