Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner and Professor Andrew Metrick survey the causes, events, policy responses, and aftermath of the recent global financial crisis.
The Global Financial Crisis
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- Policty Analysis, Research, and Development
- Loans
- Credit Risk
- Lending and Underwriting
- Contingency Planning
- Crisis Intervention
- International Finance
- General Finance
- Public Policies
- Economics, Policy, and Social Studies
- Crisis Management
- Financial Regulations
- Financial Services
- Financial Policy
- Financial Systems
- Consumer Lending
- Risk Management Framework
- Mortgage Loans
- Financial Regulation
- Financial Market
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CV
Reviewed on Jan 10, 2017
Excellent course. A real privilege to have this kind of instructors. Exceptional opportunity to receive information directly from one of the main protagonists of the event.
KI
Reviewed on Aug 31, 2018
This is a very interesting course with a very informative professor and instructor. I just received “The Stress Test” in the mail, but have not started reading it.
SR
Reviewed on Aug 15, 2017
thoroughly enjoyed it. Did it for purely for general knowledge purposes. Very delighted to complete it. Course lecturers Andrew is fabulous and Timothy is very grounded (with lot of depth)
