Overview
Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner and Professor Andrew Metrick survey the causes, events, policy responses, and aftermath of the recent global financial crisis.
Syllabus
- Introduction to The Global Financial Crisis
- The Common Causes of Financial Crises
- Housing and Mortgages
- Safe Assets and the Global Savings Glut
- The Housing Crisis
- Anxiety, Part I
- Anxiety, Part II
- Panic
- Our Responses to the Crisis
- Responding to Future Crises
- Europe in the Global Financial Crisis
- The Eurozone Crisis
- Course Summary
- Course Summary