3155+Financial+crisis+research

// All students should participate in this research and two class seminar. // Please note that the corporate governance seminar is delayed until 10/3 and the trade seminar is delayed until 10/10.
 * Research and discussion on Federal intervention in credit markets, Friday 9/26 and Monday 9/29 **
 * Revised schedule **
 * Monday 9/22 Concluding seminar on state and economy
 * Wednesday 9/24 Research class—no lecture, no class meeting
 * Friday 9/26 Seminar 1
 * Monday 9/29 Seminar 2
 * Wednesday 10/1 Lecture introducing corporate governance, read RL pp 66-76
 * Friday 10/3 Corporate governance seminar
 * Monday 10/6 Globalization and trade introduced RL pp 89-101, ch 14
 * Wednesday 10/8 Trade and the American economy
 * Friday 10/10 Trade seminar
 * Monday 10/13 Lobbying RL ch 7, 8
 * All students should choose one question to research: **
 * 1) How large is the US financial services sector, and what are its major parts?
 * 2) How many employees does the US financial services sector employ, and where?
 * 3) What is the distribution of ownership of financial instruments (shares, bonds, etc) in the US?
 * 4) How important are overseas operations of US financial services companies, and how important are foreign financial companies in the US?
 * 5) What are the main sources of finance and, especially, credit, for American businesses?
 * 6) What are the differences between commercial and investment banks? Give examples of each, highlighting the way they make money.
 * 7) Who regulates banks and what are the main objectives of the regulation?
 * 8) Who regulates insurance companies, and what are the main objectives of their regulation?
 * 9) What are the different <