EVENT ANNOUNCEMENT

DATE: Thursday and Friday, Oct. 22-23, 2015

EVENT: “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Financial Stability” will feature regulators, policymakers, financial market participants and academic researchers. The conference will explore how methods from diverse fields, such as system analysis, data visualization and security can be used to better identify and mitigate risks in the financial system.

It will also examine how risk is measured in other sectors and contexts, such as in supply chains and electrical grids, and in the context of climate change; how stakeholders make tradeoffs between stability, efficiency and innovation; and how lessons can be applied to the financial system.

Keynote speakers:

• Richard Berner, director of the Office of Financial Research, U.S. Department of Treasury
• Andrew Haldane, chief economist and executive director of Monetary Analysis & Statistics, Bank of England
• Lawrence Summers, professor and president emeritus at Harvard University; former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
• Paul Tucker, fellow at Harvard Kennedy School; former deputy governor, Bank of England
• David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Brookings Institution; former economics editor of the Wall Street Journal

PLACE: University of Michigan Law School, Honigman Auditorium, 100 Hutchins Hall, 625 South State St., Ann Arbor

SPONSORS: The federal Office of Financial Research and the U-M Center on Finance, Law and Policy, with support from the Smith Richardson Foundation, U-M College of Engineering and Ross School of Business.

INFORMATION: The conference is free to the public. Visit myumi.ch/LRRE3.