The latest podcast features two of the speakers who will be featured at the upcoming Interdisciplinary Academic Symposium on Debt as ABI Executive Director Samuel J. Gerdano talks with Profs. Amir Sufi of the University of Chicago and Paul M. Vaaler of the University of Minnesota. Sponsored by ABI and the University of Illinois, the Symposium taking place May 2-3 will feature leading U.S. and international scholars talking about debt from a wide range of academic disciplines. Prof. Vaaler’s presentation focuses on how and why credit assessors “get it wrong” when judging the risk of borrowers, while Prof. Sufi attributes the mortgage default crisis in large part to the degree of separation between borrower and lender via the securitization process.
Monthly Archive for April, 2008
ABI Deputy Executive Director Felicia S. Turner talks with Bankruptcy Judge Thomas Bennett of the Northern District of Alabama (Birmingham), the current president of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ). Appointed to the bench in 1995, Judge Bennett discusses the effect of BAPCPA on the workload of bankruptcy judges. He also discusses current legislation addressing judicial pay raises and home mortgage modification. Click here to listen to the podcast.