4:30pm: First Lecture of the Carbon Finance Speaker Series at Yale
LOCATION: Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
*Free and Open to the Public
*Reception to Follow
*Please join us this Thursday at 4:30pm for the first presentation of the exciting Carbon Finance Speaker Series at Yale, hosted by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY).
As described below, this talk will offer a great foundation for future lectures in this series.
TITLE: The History of Financial Innovation
SPEAKERS: William Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst, Professors of Finance, Yale University
DESCRIPTION:
Based on research from the book The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets, Professors William Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst will discuss the 4,000 year evolution of finance. With a historical view of financial markets that includes loans, interest rates, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, the corporation and the New York Stock Exchange, attendees will have a historical context to then think about the carbon markets through subsequent speakers in the series.
Funding for this series was made possible by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.
For more information on this lecture, the Carbon Finance Speaker Series, or other CBEY initiatives for advancing business solutions to global environmental problems, please contact us or visit us online.
Center for Business and the Environment at Yale University
Bryan Garcia, Program Director
205 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Phone: (203) 432-3736
Email: bryan.garcia@yale.edu
Online: www.yale.edu/cbey
*Free and Open to the Public
*Reception to Follow
*Please join us this Thursday at 4:30pm for the first presentation of the exciting Carbon Finance Speaker Series at Yale, hosted by the Center for Business and the Environment at Yale (CBEY).
As described below, this talk will offer a great foundation for future lectures in this series.
TITLE: The History of Financial Innovation
SPEAKERS: William Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst, Professors of Finance, Yale University
DESCRIPTION:
Based on research from the book The Origins of Value: The Financial Innovations that Created Modern Capital Markets, Professors William Goetzmann and K. Geert Rouwenhorst will discuss the 4,000 year evolution of finance. With a historical view of financial markets that includes loans, interest rates, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, the corporation and the New York Stock Exchange, attendees will have a historical context to then think about the carbon markets through subsequent speakers in the series.
Funding for this series was made possible by a generous grant from the Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation.
For more information on this lecture, the Carbon Finance Speaker Series, or other CBEY initiatives for advancing business solutions to global environmental problems, please contact us or visit us online.
Center for Business and the Environment at Yale University
Bryan Garcia, Program Director
205 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Phone: (203) 432-3736
Email: bryan.garcia@yale.edu
Online: www.yale.edu/cbey
