EVENT

Addressing the Current Financial Crisis

Morris Goldstein, Peterson Institute for International Economics
C. Fred Bergsten, Peterson Institute for International Economics
William R. Cline, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Simon Johnson, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Michael Mussa, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Adam S. Posen, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Peterson Institute for International Economics, Washington, DC

October 7, 2008

Summary

Senior Fellow Morris Goldstein presented his diagnosis of the global financial crisis and his 10-point program for financial regulatory reform for responding to it at a Peterson Institute event held October 7, 2008. C. Fred Bergsten, William R. Cline, Simon Johnson, Michael Mussa, and Adam S. Posen joined Goldstein in a panel discussion.

Goldstein anticipated many of the recent policy reactions at the Institute's global economic prospects meeting in April 2008. He has been responsible for a wide range of innovative proposals through his Institute publications, including the international banking standard that was adopted in the wake of the Asian financial crisis and a new system of early warning indicators to anticipate future crises. In an op-ed in the Financial Times in May, he made the original proposal for a liquidity pool among the world's major private financial institutions that has now been adopted as part of the response to the global crisis. His forthcoming book on this topic is entitled Financial Regulation after the Subprime and Credit Crisis.

Event Materials

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Prepared Remarks: Addressing the Current Financial Crisis [pdf]
Morris Goldstein

Op-ed: A Proposal to Improve Regulatory Liquidity
Morris Goldstein, Peterson Institute for International Economics

Paper: The Subprime and Credit Crisis [pdf]
Morris Goldstein, Peterson Institute for International Economics

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