The two papers read on the occasion of a Conference in honour of Prof Ben Friedman, held in Frankfurt on June 24, 2015 are "Some remarks on debt, default, and debt relief" and "The GFC was a Joint Crisis of Banking and Housing Finance".
Charles A. E. Goodhart is Director of the Regulation and Financial Stability Research Programme at the Financial Markets Group and Professor Emeritus of Banking and Finance at the London School of Economics. He has also acted as Deputy Director and the Norman Sosnow Professor of Banking and Finance at the School. Before his work at LSE began, Goodhart worked at the Bank of England for seventeen years as a monetary advisor, becoming chief advisor in 1980. He received his PhD from Harvard University in 1963.
Otmar Issing is President of the Center for Financial Studies at Goethe University Frankfurt. He was member of the Executive Board of ECB and before of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Before becoming a central banker he was professor of economics.
