The State of Financial Markets Amid COVID-19—Connel Fullenkamp, PhD—Duke Economics Department
Finding Genius Podcast
Richard Jacobs
4.4 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Connel Fullenkamp is a professor of economics at Duke University who conducts research on financial markets, including their development, failure, and the regulations put on them.
Tune in to discover:
- In what ways the impacts of COVID-19 could change the dynamic of the US as a whole
- Which countries might serve as bellwethers for financial recovery and the handling of the COVID-19 crisis
- Why it is important to distinguish between bankruptcy and liquidation, especially given the current economic climate
How and why do financial markets around the world develop or fail to develop? How are financial markets impacted by regulations, and are there ways to design better regulations that will foster financial market growth and overall economic development? These are a few of the questions at the center of Fullenkamp's research.
He shares his insight on these topics and more, including what governments around the world can do to develop stock and bond markets, problems with investing in bonds, and under what circumstances stock markets fail to actually improve economies by failing to fund new companies.
Fullenkamp also discusses what has happened to money markets around the world as an indirect consequence of COVID-19, what sort of financial crisis may be triggered by the recent tremendous loss of small businesses, the equity market in Japan and the US, how the commercial real estate market has been impacted by COVID-19, the recent stock splits at Apple and Tesla, and so much more.
Check out https://econ.duke.edu/people/connel-fullenkamp to learn more.
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| 0:35.0 | Hello, this is Richard Jacobs with the Finding Genius Podcast. |
| 0:41.0 | I have Connell Fullen Camp. He's a professor of economics at Duke University |
| 0:46.9 | a way to talk about financial market development and regulation of financial markets. So Connell, |
| 0:52.4 | thanks for coming. |
| 0:53.5 | It's pleasure to be here. |
| 0:54.7 | Yeah, if you would, you know, I haven't spoken to tons of economists and I know something |
| 1:00.1 | is about finances and fiscal policy, but what's your research and your work about? things about |
| 1:04.1 | finances and fiscal policy, but what's your research in your work about? |
| 1:04.2 | So with respect to finance, I do a lot of research on thinking about just |
| 1:08.8 | financial market development, how and why financial markets develop and in many cases fail to develop and that's come out of a lot of the work that I've done with colleagues at the International Monetary Fund. |
| 1:20.0 | We do training of government officials around the world about financial market development. We've learned a lot through experience and kind of case studies and I also do a lot of research on regulation trying to think about how regulation affects financial markets and |
| 1:34.9 | trying to think about how to design better regulations. |
| 1:37.9 | So that's really what the focus of my research. |
| 1:40.8 | So what kind of financial markets look at you look at countrywide |
| 1:44.0 | worldwide you know particular commodities what are you focused on sure well we |
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