Program

December 15

Introduction and Setting the Stage

• Lewis Alexander, U.S. Treasury
• Charles Evans, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• Lars Peter Hansen, University of Chicago
• Andrew W. Lo, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Network Analysis

Moderator: Nicholas Economides, New York University | View Slides (.ppt) »
• Sujit Kapadia, Bank of England
• Anna Nagurney, University of Massachusetts Amherst | View Slides (.pdf) »
• Mila Getmansky Sherman, University of Massachusetts Amherst | View Slides (.pptx) »
• Kimmo Soramaki, Financial Network Analytics

Luncheon Keynote: Jacob Goldfield, JG Funds

The Shadow Banking System

• Moderator: Perry Mehrling, Columbia University and Boston University Institute
  for Finance, Law, and Policy
• Adam Ashcraft, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
  
• Jacob Goldfield, JG Funds
• Peter Hancock, AIG

Sovereign Risk

• Moderator: John Cochrane, University of Chicago | View Slides (.ppt) »
• Paul Hiebert, European Central Bank
• Dale Gray, International Monetary Fund
• Francis Longstaff, University of California Los Angeles
• Harold Uhlig, University of Chicago

Conference Dinner at Chicago Mercantile Exchange

• Bus transportation from conference to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange
• Dinner and keynote remarks: Leo Melamed, CME Group Chairman Emeritus
• Tour of Globex operations facility
  

December 16

The Housing Sector

• Moderator: John Heaton, University of Chicago
• Amir E. Khandani, Morgan Stanley
• Deborah Lucas, Congressional Budget Office
  Amir Sufi, University of Chicago | View Slides (.pdf) »
• Paul Willen, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  

Risk Analytics and Assessments

• Moderator: Tobias Adrian, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University
  
• Sean Campbell, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
• Maarten Nederlof, Pacific Alternative Asset Management Company
  Roger M. Stein, Moody’s Research Labs | View Slides (.pdf) »

Luncheon Keynote: Chris Hart, National Transportation Safety Board

Implementation Challenges

• Moderator: Allan Mendelowitz, Federal Housing Finance Board
• Francis Gross, European Central Bank | View Slides (.ppt) »
• Henry Hu, Securities and Exchange Commission
• John Liechty, Pennsylvania State University
  
• T. Lynn Riggs, U.S. Census Bureau
• Grace Vogel, FINRA