For immediate release
September 24, 2008
Contact: Andy Pino
202-687-4328
pinoa@georgetown.edu
Georgetown Faculty Available to Comment on Current Economic Crisis

As the current economic crisis unfolds on Wall Street and in Washington, D.C., faculty at Georgetown University are available to comment on a variety of issues including U.S. and international financial markets, policy proposals and the effects of this crisis on the 2008 elections.

For more information about these experts, please visit our Faculty Experts Guide here: http://experts.georgetown.edu.  

Georgetown University Financial Markets and Economic Policy:

Reena Aggarwal, Professor of Finance & Stallkamp Faculty Fellow
202-687-3784 or aggarwal@georgetown.edu
Expertise: international stock markets, market microstructure

James J. Angel, Associate Professor of Finance
202-687-3765 or angelj@georgetown.edu
Expertise: U.S. and international financial markets, stock market crashes, security market design, tick size, stock splits, and short selling

Sandeep Dahiya, Associate Professor
202-687-3808 or sd@georgetown.edu  
Expertise: corporate finance, corporate restructuring/bankruptcy, banking and financial institutions, lending relationships for banks and their corporate borrowers, cross-listing of foreign firm on US stock exchanges

Allan Eberhart, Professor of Finance
202-687-4584 and eberhara@georgetown.edu  
Expertise: corporate finance, valuation, option pricing, corporate bonds, market efficiency, corporate finance and investments, and alternative investments.

Martin Evans, Professor of Finance and Economics
202-687-1570 or evansm1@georgetown.edu  
Expertise: exchange rate dynamics, international capital flows, and tracking current state of the economy

Robert Krasne, Adjunct Professorial Lecturer 
202-687-4112 or rmk9@georgetown.edu  
Expertise: corporate governance, litigation of financial institutions, bank fraud

Emma Coleman Jordan, Professor of Law
(202) 486-7491 or jordan@law.georgetown.edu
Expertise: banking, economic justice, and commercial law

John Mayo, Director of Center for Business and Public Policy
202-687-6972 or mayoj@georgetown.edu  
Expertise: industrial organization, regulation and the application of microeconomics to public policy 

Michele Swers, Associate Professor of American Government
202-687-2980 or mls47@georgetown.edu  
Expertise: Congress, Congressional elections, presidential elections

Andres Vinelli, Adjunct Lecturer 
202-687-8219 or agv3@georgetown.edu  
Expertise: regulation of financial markets and the U.S. securities industry, the stock market, fixed income markets, Latin American financial markets

David Walker, John A Largay Professor of Finance
202-687-4582 or walkerd@georgetown.edu  
Expertise: global financial markets and institutions, applied microeconomics and applied econometrics, bank management decision making, privatization, business-government relations

A studio-quality ISDN service is available free of charge to radio news outlets who would like to interview Georgetown University faculty. If you are interested in scheduling a live or pre-recorded interview via the ISDN line please contact the Office of Communications at (202) 687-4328. For more information about the service, please visit: http://communications.georgetown.edu/services.html.  

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