Financial Markets for Policy Professionals: 2017 Program

Understanding the Language of Finance

Wednesday,  9/6/17
Room 399, Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building

5:40 - 6:00 pm (Pizza and salad will be served)

6:00 - 9:00 pm
Accounting for Policy Makers
Donal Byard,
Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College


Framework for Understanding Financial Markets

All sessions will be held in Bowl A17, Julis Romo Rabinowitz Building

Thursday, 9/7/17

8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am - 12:00 noon
Treasury Markets
Charles Jones, Columbia Business School 

12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Lunch Break

1:00 - 5:00 pm
Credit Markets
Charles Jones
, Columbia Business School 

Friday, 9/8/17

8:30 – 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 am - 12:00 noon
Mortgages & Derivatives
Michael Johannes
, Columbia Business School

12:00 noon – 1:00 pm Lunch Break

1:00 - 3:00 pm
Mortgages & Derivatives
Michael Johannes
, Columbia Business School

3:00 - 3:15 pm Coffee break

3:15 – 5:15 pm
Financial Crisis
Wenli Li,
Senior Economic Advisor and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia


Industry Expert Presentations
Saturday, 9/9/17

8:30 - 9:00 am Breakfast

9:00 - 10:00 am
Municipal Bond Markets 
RJ Gallo, Senior Portfolio Manager, Senior Vice President, Head of Municipal Bond Investment Group, Federated Investors, Pittsburgh, PA  

10:00 - 10:45 am
Private Equity
David Rubenstein,  
Co-founder and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group

10:45 - 11:00 am Coffee Break

11:00 – 11:45 am
Two to Tango: Private Equity’s Partnership Model
Noah Gottdiener
, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of Duff & Phelps

11:45 am - 1:00 pm Lunch Break

1:00 - 2:00 pm
Global Economic and Financial Fault Lines
Ashoka Mody,
Charles and Marie Robertson Visiting Professor, Princeton University


2:00 - 2:45 pm
Domestic and International Trading and Investing Demystified
James Leitner,
President, Falcon Management Corporation

2:45 – 3:00 pm Coffee Break

3:00 – 4:00 pm
Financial Regulation 
Justin Schardin, Former Director of the Financial Regulatory Reform Initiative, Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center

4:00 - 5:00 pm
Fintech, Its Promise and Regulation
Dana Foarta,
Assistant Professor of Political Economy, Stanford Business School, Visiting Associate Research Scholar, JRCPPF, Princeton University

5:00 - 5:15 pm - Wrap-up