Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP) Forum 2008 November 3, 2008

The Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP), at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (Chicago GSB), is hosting “CRSP Forum 2008” on Monday and Tuesday, November 3rd and 4th at the Gleacher Center in Chicago. Program highlights include Monday’s opening keynote speaker, Professor John Cochrane, Myron S. Scholes Professor of Finance at Chicago GSB. Professor Cochrane will be presenting a highly topical discussion titled “The Second Revolution in Finance.” On Tuesday, Dr. Jonathan Sokobin, Director of Risk Assessment at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, will present his timely keynote titled “Securitization, SIV’s and CDS Settlement: Causes and Consequences of a Credit Crunch.”

In addition to the keynotes, CRSP Forum 2008 will include two interactive panel sessions. The panel discussion planned for Monday, November 3 will be led by moderator Lubos Pastor, Professor of Finance at Chicago GSB. Professor Pastor will be joined by George U. (Gus) Sauter, Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of the Vanguard Group Inc., and other invited panelists, to discuss market indices. Tuesday’s panel will be led by Professor John Huizinga, Chicago GSB Walter David “Bud” Fackler Distinguished Service Professor of Economics. Professor Huizinga will be joined by, among other notable panelists, Dr. Edward Lazear, Chairman of The President’s Council of Economic Advisers, to discuss domestic economic issues.

The core of the Forum program includes forty presentations of scholarly research covering a wide range of financial, economic and corporate governance issues, from a distinguished group of academicians and corporate researchers. A much anticipated event, CRSP Forum 2008 provides an invaluable opportunity for industry, academic and government leaders to convene and share the latest thinking on practice, theory, and policy in finance and economics.

Official Website: http://www.crsp.uchicago.edu/forum/index.html