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Yale Program on Financial Stability Publishes Interview with Late Fed Chair Paul Volcker

July 16, 2020
Paul Volcker at a Yale Program on Financial Stability event in 2017

The Journal of Financial Crises, a publication of the Yale Program on Financial Stability (YPFS), has published a wide-ranging interview with Paul Volcker, who served as chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1979 to 1987. It was one of the last interviews with Volcker, who died in December 2019. 

Interview with Ray Dalio

October 17, 2019
SOM building

As part of the YPFS Lesson Learned Oral History Project, Ray Dalio, Founder, Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer of the investment firm Bridgewater Associates sat down with Andrew Metrick, Janet L. Yellen Professor of Finance and Management and the director of YPFS, in October 2019 to share...

Prof. Andrew Metrick Invested as First Janet L. Yellen Professor of Finance and Management

December 5, 2018
Andrew Metrick and his family

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. Janet Yellen PhD ’71, former chair of the Federal Reserve, was in attendance, along with Yale administrators and staff...