“Financial Crises: In a Free Market
Economy, how much Regulation is too much?”
During the spring semester 2009, the Max
Schmidheiny Foundation – in co-operation with the Max Schmidheiny Foundation Professorship for Entrepreneurship
and Risk and the International Students' Committee (ISC) – is holding a lecture series on the topic
"Financial Crises: in a Free Market Economy, how much Regulation
is too much?".
Seeing how the
various players in the financial markets interact, this series of lectures will address the question
as to the “correct” – or optimum – regulatory regime for the financial markets. The current crisis reveals
a history of misregulation or inadequate supervision. But what are the fundamental implications for
regulatory policy in a free market economy, a system that over past decades has appeared to deliver
unprecedented prosperity? In the course of the semester, the lecturers taking part in the series will
present the views of the financial services industry, central banks, regulatory bodies and the academic
community.
Lectures
