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Anat Admati is the George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at the Graduate School of Business, »ÆÉ«µçÓ° and a senior fellow at SIEPR.

Admati has written extensively on information dissemination in financial markets, financial contracting, and corporate governance. She has been active in the policy debate on financial regulation in the last decade. With Martin Hellwig, she is the co-author of the highly acclaimed book, The Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do »ÆÉ«µçÓ° It (2013). Admati was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people in the world and by Foreign Policy Magazine as one of the 100 global thinkers in 2014. 

In this SIEPR talk, Admati will reflect on the lessons learned and unlearned from the crisis and offer broad observations, using current events and tying back to recent SIEPR discussions, on the complex interactions between corporations and governments and on the positive role that economists, and institutions like SIEPR, can play. She will discuss the urgency and importance of breaking through academic silos and expanding research and teaching so as to elevate the level of public discourse and address our collective action challenges.

Admati received her BS from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, her MA, MPhil, and Ph.D. from Yale University and an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich. She is a fellow of the Econometric Society, has served as a board member of the American Finance Association and on a number of editorial boards. She also serves on the FDIC Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee and the CFTC Market Risk Advisory Committee.

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