YPFS News

The article discusses how Prof. Andrew Metrick and former Treasury secretary Timothy Geithner have worked together to build a "manual" for fighting future financial crises.

Andrew Metrick YC ’89 was formally invested as the Janet L. Yellen Professor of Finance and Management during an event on November 26 at the Yale School of Management.

YPFS has spent the last year collecting first-hand accounts of the crisis for a conference and book in partnership with former officials Timothy Geithner, Ben Bernanke, and Hank Paulson.

The former U.S. treasury secretary, speaking at the Yale Program on Financial Stability’s Financial Crisis Forum, warned against coziness between regulators and the institutions they monitor.

Geithner’s lecture was the second in a three-part series, part of Yale SOM’s Global Financial Crisis course.

Geithner’s lecture, titled “Fighting Financial Crises: The Cause and the Craft,” was the first of three delivered under the auspices of the Arthur M. Okun Public Policy Lectures and the course Global Financial Crisis.

Former treasury secretary Timothy Geithner will deliver three lectures under the auspices of the Arthur M. Okun Public Policy Lectures this fall. The lectures, focusing on the global financial crisis, are open to the Yale community.

May 7—The Yale School of Management (SOM) announced today a partnership with Timothy F. Geithner, 75th secretary of the U.S.