Yaya Sissoko presented a paper titled "Inside the Classroom: Learning from the 2008 Financial Crisis and the Subprime Meltdown" (co-authored with Brian Sloboda) at the Allied Social Sciences Association for the Poster Session of the Committee on Economic Education in San Diego, California, January 3-5, 2020.
The learning objectives of this paper are:
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Learn the general factors that contributed to the 2008 financial crisis;
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Identify the complexity of the financial products, namely the subprime mortgages, that contributed to the 2008 economic crisis intuitively without having to understand the complex mathematics;
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Improve teamwork and oral communication skills;
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Improved learning and application of real-life examples from economics.
In addition, Sissoko attended two other events at the 2020 ASSA annual meeting:
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As a board member, Sissoko attended the annual board meeting of the African Finance and Economic Association, held on Saturday, January 4.
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As a member of the American Economic Association, Sissoko also attended the AEA Continuing Education on Climate Change Economics in San Diego on January 5-7, 2020. The instructors were:
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Professor Lint Barrage, University of California Santa Barbara, Department of Economics;
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Professor Michael Greenstone, Milton Friedman Distinguished Professor in Economics and the College University of Chicago, director Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago, director Policy Institute at the University of Chicago;
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Professor Gilbert Metcalf, Tufts University, Department of Economics.
The speakers defined climate change, summarized past and current research about climate change, estimated climate change and its impact on the global economy, and provided some policy recommendations about climate change.
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