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Sub-Prime Mortgage Meltdown:

Origins, Trajectories and Regional Implications

Friday, 16 May 2008

Adelaide Convention Centre - Riverbank Room 3

North Terrace, Adelaide

International financial markets teeter on the edge of a major crisis. Every day, so it seems, major banks report losses on a grand scale; Northern Rock in the UK, Bear Stearns in the US, and Société Générale in Europe.These banks have required massive bailouts and, in the cases of Bear Stearns and Northern Rock, outright takeovers as the only means of saving them. To try to avert a wider crisis, the US Federal Reserve has lowered interest rates dramatically and, in the opinion of some, moved aggressively to stabilise financial market and open up liquidity to industry. All this began with increasing defaults in the US sub-prime mortgage market.

This Symposium addressed the question of a how a crisis in the non-bank sector in the United States could lead so quickly to the threat of meltdown in the entire international financial system. Amongst other things, the Symposium analysed: the origins and nature of the crisis; its different manifestations in a range of countries; whether or not the world economy is ‘de-coupling’ from the US economy; the potential for ‘systemic feedback’ leading to serious recession on a regional or global scale, and the mechanisms for containment and recovery.

John Edwards and Stephen Bell

R. Taggart Murphy and Angele Cavaye (Dean, Flinders Business School)

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The Speakers

Guy Debelle, Assistant Governor (Financial Markets), Reserve Bank of Australia

A Comparison of the US and Australian Mortgage Markets Bio and Abstract

John Edwards, Chief Adviser, Financial Markets, Macroeconomic Group, Australian Treasury

Leonard Seabrooke, Professor, International Centre for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School

Sub-Prime as a Rights Discourse: The Progressive Underpinnings of a Predatory Market

R. Taggart Murphy, Professor of Global Management, Graduate School of Business Sciences, University of Tsukuba

Japan's Financial Trauma of the 1990s and Today's Sub-Prime Mortgage Meltdown: Parallels, Differences, and Lessons Bio and Abstract

Steve Keen, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Finance, University of Western Sydney

A Primer on Subprimes Bio and Abstract

Stephen Bell, Professor, School of Political Science and International Relations, University of Queensland

Policy Responses to Asset Bubbles Bio and Abstract

Richard Leaver, Reader in International Relations, School of Political and International Studies, Flinders University

The International Sources of Debt Crises: A 'Second Image Reversed' Explanation Bio and Abstract

Noel Tracy, Associate Professor, School of Political and International Studies, Flinders University Bio and Abstract

Michael Sullivan, School of Political and International Studies, Flinders University Bio and Abstract

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Program:

Registration 8.00am

Opening 8.45am

First Session Commences 9.00am

Lunch Break 12.30-1.30pm

Final Session Concludes 5.00pm

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