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Financial Markets: Innovations and Challenges
Dinner and Discussion
for High School Teachers
University of Texas Thompson Conference Center
Austin, Texas
May 15, 2008
This Dallas Fed program featured Jeffery Gunther, assistant vice president and senior economist in the Dallas Fed’s Financial Industry Studies Department. Gunther spoke on factors leading up to the recent financial market turmoil, in particular the role of nontraditional financial instruments. He addressed such questions as:
- What happened in the U.S. subprime real estate market?
- Are financial innovations, such as hedge funds, forever changing the financial landscape?
- What does the consumer need to understand about nontraditional financial instruments?
- What impact do these new financial instruments have on the U.S. economy?
Fast Facts
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- University of Texas at Austin
Thompson Conference Center
2405 Robert Dedman Drive
Austin, TX 78713
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About the Speaker
Jeffery W. Gunther
Assistant Vice President and Senior Economist, Financial Industry Studies
Gunther is an assistant vice president
and senior economist at the
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas,
where he conducts and directs analysis
of financial institutions and the
supervisory framework in which
they operate. Gunther’s work
focuses on supervisory policy issues
of particular concern to the Federal
Reserve. He has authored numerous related articles for
publication in both academic and Federal Reserve journals,
and he is a primary architect of statistical models
used at the Federal Reserve to identify emergent banking
problems. Gunther received a Ph.D. in economics
from Southern Methodist University in 1995.
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