Crisis Management Lessons from the Clinton Administration's Implementation of Presidential Decision Directive 56

Lessons from the Crisis

This chapter aims to contribute to the debate on fi nancial system reform. In the fi rst part I describe what I perceive to be a massive regulatory failure, a breakdown that goes all the way from regulatory fundamentals to prudential implementation. Although there has been some truly shocking behavior in the world of fi nance, the universal denunciation of “fi nancial madness” is pointless. Man...

Risk Management Lessons from the Global Banking Crisis of 2008

How to Minimize the Impact of Pandemic Events: Lessons From the COVID-19 Crisis

Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for the current pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). This pandemic is characterized by a high variability in death rate (defined as the ratio between the number of deaths and the total number of infected people) across world countries. Several possible explanations have been proposed, but it is not clear whe...

Lessons from the Tequila Crisis

This paper draws several important lessons from the Tequila Crisis of 1994 and 1995. The overriding lesson is that the dynamics of ®nancial crises in emerging market countries di€er from those in industrialized countries because institutional features of their debt markets di€er. Several policy lessons for emerging market countries also emerge from the analysis: (1) pegged exchange-rate regimes...

Community resilience roundtable on the implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 (HSPD-21).

269 ON APRIL 23, 2008, THE CENTER for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) convened an invitational meeting to discuss community resilience for catastrophic health events and to help inform implementation planning for Homeland Security Presidential Directive 21 (HSPD-21). Released in October of 2007, HSPD-21 identified community resilience as one of the “four most c...