Managing Financial Crises

This seminar focuses on financial and economic crisis, and in particular on its causes, the consequences for the real economy and the policy responses. We will address a variety of questions including the following: Which factors caused the recent financial crisis? Which mechanisms may have prolonged it? What are the economic consequences, and what kinds of policy

• Learn how to understand the financial and economic crisis
• To know which factors caused the recent financial crisis

• Financial professionals from all sectors, who wish to test their high performance and high potential knowledge, skills, and attitudes will benefit from attending this training session
• Similarly other Professionals and Functional personnel, who wish to refresh their financial knowledge base, will obtain a more integrative financial overview

• The key facts of the financial and economic crisis
• The causes of the financial crisis
• Financial market
• Global imbalances
• How the issue turned global.
• The role of securitization
• Bad incentives vs. mispricing
• The crash: How the meltdown in the housing market lead to the freezing of credit markets
• How the financial crisis became an economic crisis

• Presentation & Slides
• Audio Visual Aids
• Interactive Discussion
• Participatory Exercise
• Action Learning
• Class Activities
• Case Studies
• Workshops
• Simulation