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The Global Financial Crisis (Coursera)

Offered by Yale University,

Former U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Timothy F. Geithner and Professor Andrew Metrick survey the causes, events, policy responses, and aftermath of the recent global financial crisis.

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Syllabus

Week 1: Introduction to The Global Financial Crisis; The Common Causes of Financial Crises
Week 2: Housing and Mortgages
Week 3: Safe Assets and the Global Savings Glut
Week 4: The Housing Crisis
Week 5: Anxiety, Part I
Week 6: Anxiety, Part II
Week 7: Panic
Week 8: Our Responses to the Crisis
Week 9: Responding to Future Crises
Week 10: Europe in the Global Financial Crisis
Week 11: The Eurozone Crisis - Course Summary

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