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UCLA faculty experts advisory: Markets swing, U.S. to buy stakes in banks

Wall Street finished a topsy-turvy week, while U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced that the government will pursue a plan to buy stakes in financial institutions. UCLA experts can help explain the recent activity. 
 
Roger Farmer, professor of economics, specializes in the role of market psychology on economic activity. [Full bio]

 

Media contacts:

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu

Letisia Marquez | 310-206-3986 | lmarquez@support.ucla.edu

 

Lee Ohanian, professor of economics, is an expert in macroeconomic theory and policy, business cycles and growth, and the stock market and financial markets. [Full bio]

 

Media contacts:

Meg Sullivan | 310-825-1046 | msullivan@support.ucla.edu

Letisia Marquez | 310-206-3986 | lmarquez@support.ucla.edu

 

Edward Leamer, director of the UCLA Anderson Forecast, comments regularly on the local, national and international economies. [Full bio]

 

Media contacts:

Allison Holmes | 310-206-7707 | allison.holmes@anderson.ucla.edu

Susanna Park | 310-206-7707 | susanna.park@anderson.ucla.edu

 

Michael Darby, a professor of money and financial markets at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Department of Economics, specializes in banking, capital markets and international finance. [Full bio]

 

Media contacts:

Allison Holmes | 310-206-7707 | allison.holmes@anderson.ucla.edu

Susanna Park | 310-206-7707 | susanna.park@anderson.ucla.edu

 

Marc Martos-Vila, an assistant professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, researches corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and the effects of financial frictions. [Full bio]

 

Media contacts:

Allison Holmes | 310-206-7707 | allison.holmes@anderson.ucla.edu

Susanna Park | 310-206-7707 | susanna.park@anderson.ucla.edu

 

William Cockrum, an adjunct professor of finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, is an authority on banking, capital markets and entrepreneurial finance. [Full bio]

 

Media contacts:

Allison Holmes | 310-206-7707 | allison.holmes@anderson.ucla.edu

Susanna Park | 310-206-7707 | susanna.park@anderson.ucla.edu

 

Kenneth Klee, a professor of law who founded a law firm specializing in corporate reorganization and insolvency, has written extensively on bankruptcy law and related issues and assisted in drafting bankruptcy laws as counsel to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary and a consultant to the U.S. Department of Justice. [Full bio]

Media contact:

Lauri Gavel | 310-206-2611 | gavel@law.ucla.edu

 

Lynn LoPucki, a professor law, is a leading authority on bankruptcy law and conducts extensive research on the bankruptcies of large publicly traded companies. [Full bio]

 

Media contact:

Lauri Gavel | 310-206-2611 | gavel@law.ucla.edu

 

Stuart Gabriel, the Arden Realty Professor of Finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and director of the Ziman Center for Real Estate at UCLA, is an expert on real estate finance and mortgage markets. [Full bio]

 

Media contacts:

Allison Holmes | 310-206-7707 | allison.holmes@anderson.ucla.edu

Susanna Park | 310-206-7707 | susanna.park@anderson.ucla.edu

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