Chicago Booth Podcast: Household Leverage and the Recession of 2007 to 2009

11/11/09 • 62 min

University of Chicago Booth School of Business Podcast Series

Associate Professor of Finance Amir Sufi talked to students at a Becker Brown Bag Series sponsored by the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory about research that suggests household leverage plays an important role in recessions.

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