Robert Engle

Robert Engle

Nobel Prize-Winning Economist

Robert Engle is a Nobel Prize-winning economist. After completing his Ph.D., Engle was a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1969 to 1977. He joined the faculty of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1975, where he retired from in 2003. He now is a Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at UCSD. He currently teaches at New York University, Stern School of Business where he is the Michael Armellino professor in Management of Financial Services. Engle is also the co-founder of the Society for Financial Econometrics (SoFiE). He won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2003.

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At some point, however, the country will have to let the yuan appreciate and allow cash flows in and out of the country.
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Cutting down on over-the-counter derivatives trading among banks will reduce the likelihood that if one bank goes under so will the rest.
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Buoyed by past deregulation successes, Congress didn’t want Wall Street regulators to interfere before the crash.
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Why some of the notorious financial instruments that helped bring down the financial system in 2008 really aren’t so bad.
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Investment banks encourage faulty risk management because the risks are “not internalized by the people that are taking them.”
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A conversation with the Nobel Prize-winning economist.