Financial Literacy Exchange, October 16, 2010
October 16, 2010 (All day)
Fall 2010 Meeting of Financial Literacy Study Group
Place: New York City
The working group session will begin with a Friday night reception dinner and end with an informal Saturday night dinner for participants and other invited guests from the New York City academic and financial communities. The working group will meet all day Saturday.
Financial Literacy Study Group Conversations October 16, 2010
(Respondents to each section TBA)
I. Financial Instruments
“The Way We Live Now: The Benefits and Costs of Securitization to the Global Economy”
Dr. Bonnie Buchanan
Albers School of Business, Seattle University
II. Law and Regulation
“Enlightenment at Odds: Where Finance and Law Meet”
Gerald J Russello, Esq.,
Cardozo School of Law, New York
III. Theory
“Option Pricing Theory and the Construction of Mathematical Finance since the 1970s”
Ghislaine Idabouk
Paris Diderot University/Rehseis (CNRS), France
IV. Institutions
“’Speculation of Competent Men is the Self-adjustment of Society to the Probable’:
How the CBOT Established Futures Trading as an Economic Necessity”
Dr. Alexander Engle
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
V. Epistemology
“The Present Value of the Future: Irving Fisher’s 1906 The Nature of Capital and Income and the ‘Naturalization’ of Financial Decision-making”
Dr. Mary Poovey and Kevin R. Brine
New York University, New York
