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Free Online Course (Audit)
English
Paid Certificate Available
11 weeks long, 64 hours worth of material
selfpaced
Overview
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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.
Syllabus
- Introduction to The Global Financial Crisis
- The Common Causes of Financial Crises
- Housing and Mortgages
- Safe Assets and the Global Savings Glut
- The Housing Crisis
- Anxiety, Part I
- Anxiety, Part II
- Panic
- Our Responses to the Crisis
- Responding to Future Crises
- Europe in the Global Financial Crisis
- The Eurozone Crisis
- Course Summary
- Course Summary
Taught by
Andrew Metrick and Timothy Geithner
