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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. 

Past Events

Click on the links below to find video and audio coverage, news articles, and photos of the past Myron Scholes Global Markets Forums.

March 4, 2010

"The Energy and Climate Challenges in the Wake of Copenhagen," 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

Agustín 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

December 12, 2006
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance, Chicago Booth