PAST EVENT
Thursday, June 05, 2008
9:30 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
Hurricanes, 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
VIDEO
Sheila Bair, Douglas W. Elmendorf, Martin Neil Baily and Robert E. Litan, May 16, 2008
How 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.
PAST EVENT
Friday, May 16, 2008
10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Washington, DC
How 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
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Clifford Winston and Steven A. Morrison, April 24, 2008, House Judiciary Committee Antitrust Task Force
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jason E. Bordoff and Pascal J. Noel, April 17, 2008, The Brookings Institution
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jason Furman, April 06, 2008, Des Moines Register
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jason E. Bordoff, Spring 2008, Democracy Journal, Issue #8, Spring 2008
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Robert Hahn, January 2008, AEI Center for Regulatory and Market Studies
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
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
Robert Hahn and Hal J. Singer, September 2007, AEI-Brookings Joint Center
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Hal J. Singer and Robert W. Crandall, July 11, 2007, The Wall Street Journal
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Hal Singer and Robert Hahn, June 27, 2007, The Washington Post