“The Truly Disadvantaged” Revisited: Critical Reflections on the Recent Research on Concentrated Poverty and Joblessness
William Julius Wilson, the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University, reflects on poverty and joblessness in “‘The Truly Disadvantaged’ Revisited: Critical Reflections on the Recent Research on Concentrated Poverty a...
UChicago Global
An overview of global engagement at the University of Chicago. For more information, please visit global.uchicago.edu .
Course Design Workshop with Thomas Tweed | The Craft of Teaching
In this video, Professor Thomas Tweed, Harold and Martha Welch Endowed Chair in American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, discusses his approach to course design in relation to his undergraduate class, "What is Pilgrimage? Exploring the Bou...
Maurice Obstfeld: Financial Globalization and Financial Crises
Financial integration among different national economies creates the risk of contagious international crises. In a talk to undergraduates, Maurice Obstfeld discusses recent crises, why they occur, and what countries can do to reduce their probability.
Macroeconomic Fragility: Banks, Government Bonds, and Default: What Do the Data Say
Alberto Martin looks at public default, bank bond holdings and bank loan data to examine whether exposure to risk of sovereign debt default affects lending behavior, as well as uncover how banks become exposed to sovereign bonds in the first place.
Economic Effects of Runs on Early “Shadow Banks”: Trust Companies and the Impact of the Panic of 1907
Carola Frydman analyzes how domestic credit-supply shocks can be transmitted to the real economy through the less-regulated components of the financial sector, using hand-collected historical data from the Panic of 1907—in particular, its origins in ...
Macroprudential Policy, Countercyclical Bank Capital Buffers, and Credit Supply: Evidence from the Spanish Dynamic Provisioning Experiments
José-Luis Peydró analyzes the impact of countercyclical capital buffers held by Spanish banks on the supply of credit to firms and their subsequent performance.
2014 Joseph B. Kirsner Digestive Disease Week Symposium: Part 2
Presentations at the University of Chicago reflecting on the past and future of inflammatory bowel disease research and patient care, honoring the memory of Joseph B. Kirsner, MD, PhD. Derek Jewell, MD, PhD, and Stephan Targan, MD, are featured present...