The Global Financial Crisis.

• Position: Conferences

The NBER held a conference on "The Global Financial Crisis" at the National Press Club in Washington, DC on September 22, 2011. This conference, which included policymakers and members of the press, was directed at a broader audience than the June 2011 research meeting on the same topic which was described in the NBER Reporter, 2011 Number 3. NBER Research Associates Charles Engel of the University of Wisconsin, Kristin Forbes of MIT, and Jeffrey Frankel of Harvard's Kennedy School served as organizers of both meetings. The program for the Washington Conference was:

* Charles Engel, "Increased Financial Integration and Capital Flows: Aggravating or Ameliorating Crises?"

Discussion Leader: David Wessel, Wall Street Journal

Panelists: Mohammad El Erian, PIMCO; Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, University of California, Berkeley and NBER; Philip Lane, Trinity College Dublin

* Lunch Speaker--Lael Brainard, Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Treasury Department

* "Global Contagion: What was the Role of Banks, Investors and Trade?"

Session Introduction: Mark Spiegel, Federal...