Presentations and Policy Papers

Selected Conferences, Presentations, and Videos

• “How Banking Undermines Democracy”  Freeman Spogli Institute, Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University, January 11, 2024. Slides
• “Corporations, Persuasion and the Rule of Law”, Wilbur Cross Medal Lecture, Yale, University, April 4, 2022. Slides
• “The Role of Corporations in Society: A Global and Historical Perspective” (panel discussion), Video, 2021 Global Corporate Governance Colloquium, June 12, 2021
• “Myths about the Stability and Efficiency of Global Finance” Slides, Fields Institute, OECD Symposium on Systemic Recovery, April 27, 2021
• “Capitalism: what has gone wrong, what needs to change, and how can it be fixed?” (33:48-46:07), Seminar at Blavatnik School, University of Oxford, April 16, 2021
• “Policing Speech in the Internet Age: The Search for Truth, Trust and Accountability,” Alumni talk, Stanford, February 25, 2021, Video, Slides
• COVID-19 Bailouts and Investor Supremacy, American Economic Association Meetings panel on “What Do We Know about Effectiveness of Bailout Provisions, Small-Business Support, and Impact on Inequality and the United States Recovery,” January 4, 2021
• “Corporations, Governments and Justice,” Keynote Speech, Northern Finance Association, September 26, 2020, slides.
• Introductory slides for “The Virus of Financial Deregulations,” Hosted by members in the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee of the European Parliament, June 10, 2020
• Towards a Better Financial System,  EfIP session on Finance and Taxation, American Economic Association meetings, January 5, 2020
• 5th IWH-FIN-FIRE Workshop on “Challenges to Financial Stability”, Sponsored by The Halle Institute for Economic Research (IWH) , Halle, Germany, August 19-20, 2019. Slides
• Keynote at 2018 Financial Stability Conference on Markets and Spillover, Sponsored by Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the Office of Financial Research, Washington DC, November 30, 2018. Slides
• 2018 Financial Stability Conference on Functions and Firms, sponsored by Office of Financial Research and the University Michigan Center on Finance, Law and Policy, Washington DC, November 15, 2018. Slides
• Seminar at Riksbank, Stockholm, October 16, 2018. Slides
• Introduction to A conversation with John Carreyou, Stanford, October 10, 2018. PDF
• Keynote speech at Global Issues in Accounting Conference, University of North Carolina, September 2018.
• “Ten Years After the Financial Crisis: What Have We Learned?”, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) Associates Meeting, June 2018. Video, Slides
• GSB Alumni Reunion talk on “Corporations and Society,” October 27, 2017. Slides
• “Why Financialised Corporate Governance Has Failed Us, and What We Can Do About It,” Blavatnik School of Governance, Oxford University, September 2017
• “How Much Finance Does the Economy Need?”, American Finance Association, January 2017.
• “Banking, Corporate Governance, and Politics,” Bogen Lecture, Hebrew University, June 2016.
• Too Big To Fail Policy Symposium One, [Slide deck] Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, April 2016.
• “What’s Wrong With Banking and What to Do About it,” New City Agenda Lecture, U.K. House of Commons, September 2015.
• “Making Financial Regulations Work for Society” (with Brooksley Born), [Written remarks] Finance and Society INET Conference, May 2015 (Conference co-organizer).
• Debate: How fragile is the global financial system?, World Economic Forum, Davos, January 2015.
• “Financial Stability After Dodd-Frank: Have We Ended Too Big to Fail?”, George Washington University Law School, November 2014 (Conference co-organizer).
• “Seeing through ‘the banker’s new clothes,'” TEDx Stanford, May 2014.
• “What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do About It,” Talks at Google, April 2014.
• “Gaming the System: Finance in America,” Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, April 2014.
• “Taming Our Financial Systems”, IdeasLab, World Economic Forum, Davos,  2014.
• Debate: Are Markets Safer Now?, World Economic Forum, Davos, January 2014.
• “Too Big To Fail, or What’s Still Terribly Wrong with Banking,” American Bar Association Annual Meeting, August 2013.
• “What is wrong with banking and what to do about it,” Danish Institute for International Studies, February 2013.
• “Bank Capital: How much is ‘Enough?’,” Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago 48th Annual Conference on Bank Structure and Competition, May 2012.
• “The False Tradeoff between Economic Growth and Bank Capital,” Briefing for the United States Senate, June 2011.