Robert Aliber:
Four Financial Crises in the Last 25 Years
We are pleased to announce the Bratislava Open Lecture on
Four Financial Crises in the Last 25 Years: A New World Record
which will be delivered by
Professor Robert Aliber (University of Chicago Booth School of Business).
The patronage over the lectures has been kindly adopted by the U.S. Embassy in the Slovak Republic.
Date: May 13, 2009 at 17:00
Venue: Faculty of National Economy, University of Economics in Bratislava (room D116), Dolnozemská 1
The participation is open to academics, students, and general public.
Four Financial Crises in the Last 25 Years: A New World Record
The last thirty years have been the most turbulent in monetary history. There have been four waves of financial crises, the first was in the early 1980s and the current one began nearly two years ago; each of these waves has involved three, four, or more countries. Each wave of crises was preceded by a wave of credit bubbles; the rate of growth of credit was much too high to be sustainable.
Short bio of Professor Robert Aliber
Robert Z. Aliber received his Ph.D degree from Yale University, and Bachelors Degrees from Williams College and Cambridge University. He joined the faculty of the Booth School of Business (formerly Graduate School of Business) at the University of Chicago in 1965 and retired in 2004 as Professor of International Economics and Finance. While at Chicago he developed the Center for Studies in International Finance. Prior to joining the Chicago facuity, Aliber was Senior Economic Advisor, Agency for International Development, Department of State.
Professor Aliber has written extensively about international financial issues, including changes in crossborder capital flows and changes in currency values; his publications include "The New International Money Game" and "The Multinational Paradigm". He brought out fifth edition of "Manias, Panics, and Crashes"; the previous editions were authored by Charles P. Kindleberger. In the early 1980s he wrote a book on personal finance, "Your Money and Your Life." A second personal finance book is at the publishers.
Professor Aliber has been the Houblon-Norman Fellow at the Bank of England, the National Westminister Professor of International Finance at the London Business School, the Bundesbank Professor at the Free University of Berlin, and a visiting Professor at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Brandeis University, and Williams College. He has been the JPMorgan Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin and a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington. Professor Aliber has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and a consultant to the World Bank and to International Monetary Fund. Professor Aliber also founded Dorchester Capital Management in 1989 and is the chief investment officer.
Organized by:
Ronald Coase Institute, University of Economics in Bratislava, and Virtual Scientific Laboratories
Supported by:
U.S. Embassy and Tatra Banka Foundation
Organizing Committee:
Urban Kováč (Virtual Scientific Laboratories and University of Economics), Jana Peliová (University of Economics), Andrea Šalingová (Tatra Banka Foundation), Maroš Servátka (University of Canterbury and Virtual Scientific Laboratories), Rudolf Sivák (Rector of University of Economics), Radovan Vadovič (ITAM and Virtual Scientific Laboratories)
