RENT-SEEKING, INSTABILITY AND FRAUD: CHALLENGES FOR FINANCIAL REFORM
This seminar will explore how financial sector innovation and regulatory structures affect inequality, macroeconomic fragility and white collar crime. Questions to be addressed include:
What role does the financial sector play in a modern day economy?
How does financial innovation fit into traditional boom-and-bust accounts of the business cycle?
What role did fraud play in the global financial crisis?
How can financial reform effectively reduce the prevalence of rent-seeking, instability and fraud?
Speakers:
William K. Black, J.D. Ph.D., Associate Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City
Michael Norman, B.A. M.A., independent broker-dealer and investment banking firm on Wall Street, and the former Chief Economist and John Thomas Financial
Lynn E. Turner, B.A. M.A. C.P.A.,former Professor of Accounting at Colorado State University and currently Managing Director at LitiNomics
Moderator:
Harvey J. Goldschmid, Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School
