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Save to My PortfolioMissing Markets: Fostering Market Based Solutions to Major Risks

Thursday, June 05, 2008
9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC

Reuters/Andy KingHurricanes, retirement, home-buying and tax-base erosion all pose financial risks. Yet markets to reduce these risks are elusive. The Hamilton Project at Brookings released papers at a discussion on how sound public policy can play a critical role in helping to foster new markets or expand existing markets in ways that could provide widely shared benefits. Read More

Financial Services, Mortgage Market, Retirement, Financial Institutions, Financial Markets

VIDEO

Save to My PortfolioThe Great Credit Squeeze

Sheila Bair, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Martin Neil Baily and Robert E. Litan, May 16, 2008

The Great Credit SqueezeHow could America's sophisticated financial system go so wrong and cause so much damage? Martin Baily, Douglas Elmendorf and Robert Litan answered that question at a public forum and suggested policy actions to reduce the chance that history repeats itself. FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair offered her own proposal to ease the crisis.

Financial Services, Fiscal Policy, Housing, Mortgage Market, U.S. Economy

PAST EVENT

Save to My PortfolioHow the Great Credit Squeeze Happened and How to Prevent Another

Friday, May 16, 2008
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC

Reuters/Rebecca CookHow could America's sophisticated financial system go so wrong and cause so much damage? Martin Baily, Douglas Elmendorf and Robert Litan answered that question in a new paper released at this public forum. The authors, following opening remarks by FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair, put forward a specific agenda of policy actions to reduce the chance that history repeats itself. Read More

Financial Services, Fiscal Policy, Housing, Mortgage Market, U.S. Economy

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioReducing the Likelihood of Financial Crisis

Douglas W. Elmendorf, May 14, 2008, Joint Economic Committee

BOOK

Save to My PortfolioAviation Infrastructure Performance

Clifford Winston and Gines de Rus, May 01, 2008

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioThe State of Airline Competition and Prospective Mergers

Clifford Winston and Steven A. Morrison, April 24, 2008, House Judiciary Committee Antitrust Task Force

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioAirlines are Safer than Ever

Clifford Winston and Robert W. Crandall, April 19, 2008, The Wall Street Journal

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioPay-As-You-Drive Auto Insurance: A Simple Way to Reduce Driving-Related Harms and Increase Equity

Jason E. Bordoff and Pascal J. Noel, April 17, 2008, The Brookings Institution

VIDEO

Save to My PortfolioExtending Deregulation

Robert W. Crandall and Martha Raddatz, April 16, 2008

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioTake Time to Get It Right: Shape Financial System Rules for the Long Haul

Jason Furman, April 06, 2008, Des Moines Register

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioPay-As-You-Drive Car Insurance

Jason E. Bordoff, Spring 2008, Democracy Journal, Issue #8, Spring 2008

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioEthanol: Law, Economics, and Politics

Robert Hahn, January 2008, AEI Center for Regulatory and Market Studies

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioSupreme Court Amicus Brief Regarding Morgan Stanley Capital Group Inc. v. Public Utility District No. 1 of Snohomish County, Washington

William J. Baumol, Colin C. Blaydon, Charles J. Cicchetti, Jeffrey A. Dubin, Franklin M. Fisher, Jerry A. Hausman, William W. Hogan, Joseph P. Kalt, Paul R. Kleindorfer, Robert J. Michaels, Bruce M. Owen, Craig Pirrong, Michael A. Salinger, Steven M. Shavell, Vernon L. Smith, René M. Stulz, James L. Sweeney, Robert D. Willig, and Catherine D. Wolfram and Robert Hahn, November 2007, AEI-Brookings Joint Center

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioTechnical Difficulties

Robert W. Crandall, November 08, 2007, The Wall Street Journal

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioAn Antitrust Analysis of Google's Proposed Acquisition of DoubleClick

Robert Hahn and Hal J. Singer, September 2007, AEI-Brookings Joint Center

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioTelecom Time Warp

Hal J. Singer and Robert W. Crandall, July 11, 2007, The Wall Street Journal

RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY

Save to My PortfolioEarmarked Airwaves?

Hal Singer and Robert Hahn, June 27, 2007, The Washington Post

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Robert E. Litan

Robert E. Litan

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

An economist and lawyer who has served in a variety of federal agencies and White House posts, Bob Litan is an expert on antitrust; banking; Internet policy; and other financial and regulatory issues.
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Robert Hahn

Robert Hahn left Brookings in the summer of 2008. He is executive director of the AEI Center for Regulatory and Market Studies.
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Robert W. Crandall

Robert W. Crandall

Senior Fellow, Economic Studies

Robert Crandall focuses on telecommunications regulatory policy, particularly regarding wireless and broadband competition and the effects of antitrust policy on the U.S. telecommunications sector.
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