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.

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.

When the investment bank Lehman Brothers failed in September 2008, in the biggest bankruptcy in U.S. history, it sent a shock through the already weakened financial system. Within a month the government had recapitalized American International Group, guaranteed money market mutual funds, and...

YPFS CALL FOR PAPERS Date: July 29, 2016  Venue: Yale School of Management The Yale Program on Financial Stability (YPFS) is holding its third annual conference on Friday, July 29, 2016 on the campus of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. The conference is held jointly with...