Franklin Allen: Global Financial Markets
Wharton Professor Franklin Allen lectures on the underlying causes of the financial crisis, from the mass-securitization of mortgages to the failure of the financial regulatory system. He also discusses the role uncertainty plays in depressing asset prices in this segment of his lecture for Wharton's new course, The Economic & Financial Crisis: Causes, Consequences, and Policy Options.
About Franklin Allen
Franklin Allen, (born 6 March 1956) is a British economist and academic. Since 2014, he has been professor of finance and economics, and executive director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London. He was the Nippon Life Professor of Finance and Economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is most active in the research areas of financial innovations, asset price bubbles, the comparison of financial systems, and financial crises.
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