Evening at the Fed
Dinner and Discussion for High School Teachers
Dallas, November 29, 2007
Houston, December 4, 2007
San Antonio, December 11, 2007
El Paso, December 13, 2007

Financial Markets: Innovations and Challenges

The 2007 Evening at the Fed series featureed Jeffery Gunther, assistant vice president and senior economist in the Dallas Fed's Financial Industry Studies Department. Gunther spoke on factors leading up to the recent financial market turmoil, in particular the role of nontraditional financial instruments. He addressed such questions as:

• Are financial innovations, such as hedge funds, forever changing the financial landscape?
• What happened in the U.S. sub prime real estate market?
• What does the consumer need to understand about nontraditional financial instruments?
• What impact do these new financial instruments have on the US economy?
   
• Jeff Gunther's presentation

Fast Facts

Locations and Dates

Dallas, November 29, 2007 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 2200 N. Pearl St., Dallas, TX 75201 Directions | Map Houston, December 4, 2007 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Houston Branch 1801 Allen Parkway, Houston, TX 77019 Directions San Antonio, December 11, 2007 Holiday Inn - Market Square, 318 W. Durango Blvd., San Antonio, TX  78204 Map El Paso, December 13, 2007 Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, El Paso Branch 301 E. Main St., El Paso, TX 79901 Directions

More information

Elizabeth Waddle Phone (800) 333-4460, ext. 25276 E-mail

About the Speaker

Jeffery W. Gunther
Assistant Vice President and Senior Economist, Financial Industry Studies
Gunther is an assistant vice president and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, where he conducts and directs analysis of financial institutions and the supervisory framework in which they operate. Gunther’s work focuses on supervisory policy issues of particular concern to the Federal Reserve. He has authored numerous related articles for publication in both academic and Federal Reserve journals, and he is a primary architect of statistical models used at the Federal Reserve to identify emergent banking problems. Gunther received a Ph.D. in economics from Southern Methodist University in 1995.