ECON 70.06 Frauds, Panics, Crashes, and Bank Runs

This is an immersive course that will feature intensive group projects, presentations of academic papers, and original research on a topic within the theme of the course.  The theme of the course is to understand the conditions and human behavior that lead to large scale financial fraud, panics, market crashes and bank runs.  The course contains ethical themes as well as economic ones.  A Dartmouth education includes understanding why you should not engage in the behaviors profiled both from a rational and from an ethical point of view.  A Dartmouth economics education includes understanding how markets work and how they can fail and perhaps how structural and regulatory changes can improve market functioning.

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Department-Specific Course Categories

Economics