Competitive Markets: Beauty or Beast?

Starts: Thursday November 05, 2009 at 6:30pm
Ends: Thursday November 05, 2009 at 9:00pm
Event Type: Training/Seminar
Region: San Francisco Bay Area
Location: swissnex San Francisco
730 Montgomery St
San Francisco, CA 94111 US
Price:
Website: http://www.swissnexsanfrancisco.org
Industry: financial services
Keywords: Financial Crisis, Competitiveness
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Organization: swissnex San Francisco

In the aftermath of the financial meltdown, the virtue of competitive markets is being questioned. Peter Bossaerts, professor of finance at the California Institute of Technology, explains just what economists mean by the term "competitive markets," what they are theoretically supposed to do, and where they fail.