Join us for Economic Forecast 2014 and benefit from the insight and experience of Robert Aliber, Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance, whose work has shaped the way we understand the world.
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Event Details
From budget battles to Federal Reserve succession to tapering of quantitative easing, the landscape of the coming year presents uncertainty at every turn. Hear Prof. Aliber's views and ask him questions about current economic uncertainty or other current topics about the economy.
Economic Forecast 2014 returns to Dallas/Ft. Worth for the first time since 2007.
$50 for alumni, students and parents walk-ins subject to availability
$60 for general public registered in advance
Registration
Register Online
Plated 3 course lunch served by Four Seasons
Alumni of all divisions and schools, as well as current students, of The Univesity of Chicago are welcome to attend.
Deadline: 1/31/2014
Program
11:30 AM-12:00 PM: Registration and Networking
12:00 PM-12:30 PM: Lunch
12:30 PM-1:30 PM: Keynote and Q&A
Speaker Profiles
Robert Z. Aliber (Speaker)
Professor Emeritus of International Economics and Finance, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
http://www.chicagobooth.edu/
Bob Aliber received the Ph.D degree from Yale University in 1962 and Bachelors Degrees from Williams College and Cambridge University. He joined the faculty of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago in 1965 and retired in 2004 as Professor of International Economics and Finance. Prior to joining the Chicago faculty, Aliber was Senior Economic Advisor, Agency for International Development, Department of State.
Bob was the National Westminster Professor of International Finance at the London Business School in 1978, the Bundesbank Professor at the Free University of Berlin in 1997, and a visiting Professor at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in the early 1980s and again in 2004; he was also a visiting professor at Brandeis University and at Williams College. Bob was the Houblon-Norman fellow at the Bank of England in 1996. He was the JPMorgan Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin in 2003 and a visiting scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington in 2004. Aliber has been a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and a consultant to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and a various think tanks in Washington and London.
Aliber has written extensively about international financial issues, including changes in cross-border capital flows and changes in currency values; and the efficiency of the currency market. His publications include The New International Money Game; the seventh edition published in 2010. The Multinational Paradigm, was published in 1995. He brought out fifth edition of Manias, Panics, and Crashes in 2005; the previous editions were authored by Charles P. Kindleberger—the sixth edition released in 2010. In the early 1980s he wrote a book on personal finance, Your Money and Your Life; a much more comprehensive book on personal finance with the same title published by Stanford University Press in November 2010. He is the co-editor of a collection of papers and reports that were published prior to the Iceland's financial crisis.
Bob founded Dorchester Capital Management in 1991, which provides asset management and financial planning services.
Questions
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415-640-0528
Other Information
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