You are cordially invited to attend the “ Distinguished Lecture Series” hosted by Guanghua School of Management, organized by the National Center for Financial Research at Peking University (NCFR) and solely sponsored by Zhongzhi Enterprise Group. The purpose of this series is to discuss with distinguished researchers about what's happened to financial markets as a result of new financial stability regulations, and to help the general audience to grasp some potential new flash points in financial research.
We are honored to have Dr. Darrell Duffie, the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance from Stanford University as our first quest speaker. His lecture will be on the topic: "Prospects for Financial Stability and Market Efficiency”. Prof. Duffie will review progress on financial regulatory reform and implications for market efficiency in global financial markets, and place some of these issues in the context of developments in China's financial system.
Time: May 22, 2015 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location: Classroom 203, Bld. No. 1, GSM
Due to limited space, we strongly encourage you to reserve your place in advance. Please click here for online application.
About Dr. Darrel Duffie
Darrell Duffie is the Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Financial Advisory Roundtable of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a Fellow and member of the Council of the Econometric Society, a Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the board of directors of Moodys Corporation since 2008. Duffie was the 2009 president of the American Finance Association. In 2013-2014, Duffie chaired the Market Participants Group, charged by the Financial Stability Board with recommending reforms to Libor, Euribor, and other interest-rate benchmarks. Duffie’s recent books include How Big Banks Fail (Princeton University Press, 2010), Measuring Corporate Default Risk (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Dark Markets (Princeton University Press, 2012).
About NCFR
The National Center for Financial Research (NCFR), a new research institute and high-end think tank, has been recently established by Peking University, thanks to the generous donation of Zhongzhi Group. As an open research platform with global perspectives, the Center aims to apply world-class academic research to financial practices in China, to achieve its goals of addressing major financial issues facing the country and society, building a solid analytical foundation for financial reform, offering policy analysis for financial policy-making and regulation, and supplying creative ideas and technology for the construction and development of the Chinese financial market.
