The Global Economic Crisis: The Untold Stories

Date:  November 20, 2008 Time:  7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Location:  Morgridge Auditorium, 1100 Grainger Hall, 975 University Avenue Phone:  265-8038 Email:  wage@intl-institute.wisc.edu Contact:  Alison Alter Sponsor:  UW-Madison Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy Co-Sponsor:  Center for International Business Education & Research (CIBER), Division of International Studies, UW-Madison Business School, Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA), Wisconsin School of Business, Madison International Trade Association (MITA), Department of Political Science, Department of Economics, Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, Stephen L. Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis, UW-Madison Law School, and Global Studies Cost:  Free and open to the public

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Menzie D. Chinn is a Professor in the University of Wisconsin’s Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, and the Department of Economics. His research examines macroeconomic interactions between countries using econometric methods. Recent work focuses on how debt and fiscal policy affect interest rates, and the interaction between capital controls and financial development. Previous research has analyzed the determinants of exchange rate behavior among developed countries, with an emphasis on the role of productivity differentials. He has published in the Journal of International Economics, Journal of International Money and Finance, Oxford Economic Papers, and Journal of Money, Credit and Banking. He is an associate editor of the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking and Review of International Economics. In 2000-2001, Professor Chinn served as Senior Staff Economist for International Finance on the President’s Council of Economic Advisors. He is currently a Research Fellow in the International Finance and Macroeconomics Program of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and has been a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, the Congressional Budget Office and the Federal Reserve Board. Chinn served as a WAGE Senior Fellow from Fall 2005- Spring 2008 leading a research collaborative on Current Account Sustainability.  

Mark Copelovitch is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Professor Copelovitch studies and teaches international political economy, with a focus on global financial governance, exchange rates and monetary institutions, the effects of global capital flows on national economic policies, and theories of international cooperation. Copelovitch is working on a book manuscript, Banks, Bonds, and Bailouts: Global Finance and the International Monetary Fund, which explores the influence of changing patterns of financial globalization on International Monetary Fund lending policies. He is also currently engaged in projects studying the relationship between international trade agreements and exchange rates, the determinants of variation in the design of international institutions, and the influence of global capital flows on fiscal policy. Professor Copelovitch is a graduate of Yale University and Harvard University, where he received his Ph.D. in 2005. Prior to his appointment at Wisconsin, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University.

Edward Friedman is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He teaches courses on international political economy and specializes in Asian international relations.  His teaching and research interests include democratization, Chinese politics, international political economy, revolution, and the comparative study of transitions in Leninist States. His most recent book is Political Transitions in Dominant Party Systems.

Darian Ibrahim joined the University of Wisconsin Law School in Fall 2008 from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law. While at Arizona, Professor Ibrahim was voted the Teacher of Year by the law school student body and co-created and co-directed the University’s Business/Law Exchange. Professor Ibrahim’s scholarly interests include corporate and securities law and the intersection of law and entrepreneurship. His current research analyzes and compares the financing options that are available to high-tech start-ups, including angel finance and venture capital.  Professor Ibrahim is a 1999 graduate of Cornell Law School (magna cum laude), where he was Articles Editor of the Cornell Law Review, Order of the Coif, and a recipient of the Fredric H. Weisberg Prize for Constitutional Law. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Clemson University (magna cum laude) in 1996.

Mark Ready is the Jeffrey J. Diermeier Chair of Finance and the Academic Director of the Stephen L. Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis.  He came to the University of Wisconsin in 1990 after completing his Ph.D. at Cornell University.  Prior to obtaining his Ph.D., he spent seven years in various finance positions at Ford Motor Company.  Mark’s research focus is in investments, with a primary focus on the functioning of financial markets.  He has also published studies examining risk and return of a variety of trading strategies, ranging from technical trading rules for timing market returns to strategies that select individual stocks based on various fundamental measures. His work has been cited in more than 450 separate articles published in finance and accounting journals, and he has served as associate editor for both the Review of Financial Studies and Financial Management. Mark served on the NASDAQ’s Economic Advisory Board from 1998-2000, and he was the Chief Economist and Director of the Office of Economic Analysis at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission from April 2000 through January 2001.