Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum
The Myron Scholes Global Markets Forum brings business leaders, policy makers, and distinguished academics to address the Chicago community on topics of current interest. These events are open to the public but do require advance registration.
Upcoming Events
October 2, 2013
Banking Reform in Britain and Europe, with Sir John Vickers, Warden of All Souls College, Oxford
Past Events
Click on the links below to find video coverage, news articles, and photos of the past Myron Scholes Global Markets Forums.
April 10, 2013
The Euro Crisis, with Hans-Werner Sinn, Professor of Economics and Public Finance at the University of Munich (LMU) and president of the Ifo Institute
March 6, 2013
The Coming Crisis in Japan, with Kyle Bass, founder and principal of Hayman Capital Management
February 15, 2013
Deconstructing the 2012 Elections, with Nate Silver, founder FiveThirtyEight.com
November 28, 2012
Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget, with David Wessel, Wall Street Journal columnist
November 13, 2012
"Great Expectations or Hard Times? Can America Restore its Economic Leadership?, with Nicholas Bloom, Professor of Economics at Stanford Department of Economics
October 29, 2012
"Monetary Policy, In Practice," with Lorenzo Bini Smaghi, visiting scholar at the Program on Transatlantic Relations at Harvard University and former member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank
September 24, 2012
"Data, Discretion, and Dodd-Frank: Thoughts on the Future of Securities Regulation", with Commissioner Troy Paredes, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
May 30, 2012
A Capitalism for the People: Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity with Luigi Zingales, University of Chicago
May 2, 2012
The Challenge of Stabilizing Federal Debt with Douglas Elmendorf, Director of the Congressional Budget Office
November 9, 2011
Faculty panel discussion on "What's Holding Back the US Economy?" with Steven Davis, Erik Hurst, and Amir Sufi. Luigi Zingales moderated.
October 24, 2011
"The China-Hong Kong Nexus Again: Another Look at the Twelfth Five-Year Plan," with Yue Chim Richard Wong, Professor of Economics and the Philip Wong Kennedy Wong Professor in Political Economy at the University of Hong Kong
September 27, 2011
"Global Imbalances: Current Accounts and Financial Flows," with Stephen Cecchetti, economic adviser and head of the Monetary and Economic Department at the Bank for International Settlements
May 25, 2011
"The Future of Economic Governance in the Euro Area: Quo vadis?" with Axel Weber, visiting professor of economics, Chicago Booth
April 5, 2011
"Managing OTC Derivatives Systemic Risk - The Pivotal Role of Central Clearing," with Ken Griffin, founder and chief executive officer of Citadel
February 16, 2011
"The Hidden Influences Behind How Sports are Played and Games are Won," with Tobias Moskowitz, Chicago Booth
January 10, 2011
"Budget Options for the U.S.," with Steven Davis, John Huizinga, and Harald Uhlig. Anil Kashyap will moderate.
November 17, 2010
"The Economic Take-off of Latin America," Sebastian Edwards, Henry Ford II Professor of International Economics, Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA
October 12, 2010
"The End of Wall Street," with Roger Lowenstein, author of bestsellers Buffett; When Genius Failed and The End of Wall Street
September 27, 2010
"What Can Economics Tell Us about Development?" with Robin Burgess, professor of economics, London School of Economics
March 4, 2010
"5 Facts about Climate Policy: Cause for a Shift in Policy?" with Michael Greenstone, MIT
February 22, 2010
"The Euro in Crisis," a faculty panel with John Cochrane, Roger Myerson, Luigi Zingales, and moderator Anil Kashyap
January 11, 2010
Faculty Panel on Ethics and Wall Street featuring Steven N. Kaplan, Tobias Moskowitz, and Luigi Zingales
December 2, 2009
"Should Executive Pay Be Regulated?" with Steven N. Kaplan, Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
October 28, 2009
"Inflation or Deflation?" with John H. Cochrane, AQR Capital Management Professor of Finance
September 21, 2009
"The Unrealized Opportunity in Health Care," with David Cutler, Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics, Department of Economics and Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
September 15, 2009
"In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic," by David Wessel, economics editor of The Wall Street Journal
April 1, 2009
"Rebuilding the Global Architecture of Financial Regulation," with Malcolm Knight, Vice Chairman of Deutsche Bank Group
March 3, 2009
"Fixing the Global Economy," with Martin Wolf, associate editor at the Financial Times, London
January 16, 2009
"Evaluating Obama's Proposed Stimulus Package," a panel discussion featuring John Huizinga, Robert Lucas, and Kevin Murphy.
December 3, 2008
"When Hyde Park Rules America," with David Brooks, New York Times columnist and commentator on the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer
November 18, 2008
The Credit Crisis: A Faculty Panel on "What the Effects Will Be and What Should be Done
November 11, 2008
The Credit Crisis: A Lecture Series with Anil Kashyap, Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance
November 10, 2008
Leszek Balcerowicz, Professor of Economics at the Warsaw School of Economics
November 4, 2008
The Credit Crisis: A Lecture Series with Amit Seru, Assistant Professor of Finance
October 28, 2008
The Credit Crisis: A Lecture Series with Douglas Diamond, Merton H. Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
October 21, 2008
The Credit Crisis: A Lecture Series with Amir Sufi, Assistant Professor of Finance
October 10, 2008
Eugene F. Fama, Robert R. McCormick Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago
September 26, 2008
Danny Leipziger, Vice President for Poverty Reduction and Economic Management, World Bank
April 17, 2008
Santiago Levy Algazi, Vice President for Sectors and Knowledge of the Inter-American Development Bank
April 9, 2008
Robert E. Lucas, Jr., John Dewey Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
March 13, 2008
Anil Kashyap, Edward Eagle Brown Professor of Economics and Finance
December 11, 2007
Clive Crook, columnist on US Political Affairs for the Financial Times weekly and National Journal
October 22, 2007
Charles L. Evans, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
October 18, 2007
Roger C. Altman, Chairman of Evercore Partners and Austan Goolsbee, Robert P. Gwinn Professor of Economics
September 25, 2007
Understanding the Recent Market Turmoil with Professors Cochrane, Kashyap, Rajan and Zingales
May 31, 2007
AgustÃn Carstens, Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico
May 11, 2007
Ernesto Zedillo, Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and former President of Mexico (1994-2000)
April 27, 2007
Myron Scholes, Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus and 1997 Nobel Laureate in Economics
April 12, 2007
Raghuram G. Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance
February 1, 2007
Edward P. Lazear, Chairman, Council of Economic Advisers, Executive Office of the President of the United States of America
January 17, 2007
John B. Taylor, Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford and Former United States Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs
