Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee
About This Event

The Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee (SFRC) is a group of publicly recognized independent experts on the financial services industry—including banking, insurance, and securities—who meet regularly to study and critique regulatory policies affecting this sector of the economy. At the two closed sessions before the luncheon, committee members will discuss, among Listen to Audio


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other things, the recent turmoil in financial markets and proposed remedies; mortgage foreclosure initiatives; and issues relating to government-sponsored enterprises, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.

At the luncheon press briefing that follows these sessions, SFRC members will issue one or more statements and answer questions relating to the topics discussed. On Sunday evening, May 4, the committee will send out e-mail notices of the subjects that will be covered in Monday’s statements.

Agenda
11:45a.m.
Registration
12:00p.m.
Luncheon
12:30
Press Briefing:
George G. Kaufman (cochairman), Loyola University of Chicago
Richard J. Herring (cochairman), University of Pennsylvania
Marshall Blume, University of Pennsylvania
Charles W. Calomiris, AEI and Columbia University
Kenneth W. Dam, University of Chicago
Robert Eisenbeis, Cumberland Advisors
Edward J. Kane, Boston College
Robert E. Litan, Brookings Institution and Kauffman Foundation
Kenneth E. Scott, Stanford University
Chester Spatt, Carnegie Mellon University
Peter J. Wallison, AEI
1:30
Adjournment
AEI Participants

 

Charles W.
Calomiris
  • Charles W. Calomiris, who codirected AEI's Financial Deregulation Project until 2007, is concurrently the Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee and the Financial Economists Roundtable, and the coordinator of the "Bank Performance and the Economy" program at the Center for Financial Research at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. His research at AEI spans several areas, from banking and corporate finance to financial history and monetary economics. Mr. Calomiris also served on the 2000 International Financial Institution Advisory Commission. Known as the Meltzer Commission, this congressionally mandated group recommended specific reforms of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the regional development banks, and the World Trade Organization to the U.S. government.
  • Phone: 2128548748
    Email: ccalomiris@aei.org

 

Peter J.
Wallison
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