Oakland University's School of Business Administration is pleased to welcome Dr. Carmen Reinhart, Weatherstone Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, as the featured speaker of the 2011 Gorlin Memorial Lecture on Thursday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m., in the Oakland Center Banquet Rooms.
One of the world's leading experts on financial crises, Reinhart's talk titled a Decade of Debt, will weigh how current actions may be leading a revival of financial repression -- including more directed lending to government by captive domestic audiences (such as pension funds), explicit or implicit caps on interest rates, and tighter regulation on cross border capital movements.
Until recently, Reinhart served as Professor of Economics and Director of the Center for International Economics at the University of Maryland. Prior to that, she was Chief Economist and Vice President at Bear Stearns, and she spent several years at the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Dr. Reinhart is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a research fellow at the Centre for Economic Policy Research, and a member of the Congressional Budget Office's Panel of Economic Advisers. She has served on many editorial boards and has testified frequently before Congress. She holds a PhD in Economics from Columbia University.
Reinhart's work has helped to inform the understanding of financial crises for over a decade. Her numerous papers on macroeconomics, international finance, and trade have been published in leading scholarly journals. Her best-selling book (with Kenneth S. Rogoff) entitled This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, which has been translated into 13 languages, documents the striking similarities of the recurring booms and busts that have characterized financial history.
The Gorlin Lecture is free and open to the public.
Alice Conner Gorlin was an esteemed Professor of Economics at Oakland University from 1972 until her death in 1987. She gained international recognition as a scholar of the Soviet economy. Gorlin’s dedication to the role of human beings as citizens of the world led her family and friends to establish this lecture series to promote understanding of international issues and events.
Oakland University's School of Business Administration is pleased to welcome Dr. Carmen Reinhart, Weatherstone Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics, as the featured speaker of the 2011 Gorlin Memorial Lecture on Thursday, March 24, at 7:30 p.m., in the Oakland Center Banquet Rooms.