Shadow Financial Regulatory Committee

Monday, September 15, 2008 | 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.

Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

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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 Listen to Audio
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Download Audio as MP3 two closed sessions before the luncheon, committee members will discuss, among other things, the recent problems with Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and proposed remedies; the turmoil in the financial markets; and issues related to the expansion of Federal Reserve regulatory authority, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and other actions and initiatives in the financial services sector.

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, September 14, the committee will send out e-mail notices of the subjects that will be covered in Monday’s statements.

Agenda

11:45 a.m.	Registration

12:00 p.m.	Luncheon

12:30	Press Briefing:	George G. Kaufman (cochairman), Loyola University of Chicago
		Richard J. Herring (cochairman), University of Pennsylvania
		Ray Ball, University of Chicago
		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
		Christian Leuz, University of Chicago
		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

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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.
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Email: ccalomiris@aei.org