Witnesses:
Dr. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Distinguished Professor of Risk Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
Dr. Richard Bookstaber
Financial Author
Dr. Gregg Berman
Head of Risk Business, RiskMetrics Group
Dr. James G. Rickards
Senior Managing Director, Omnis Inc.
Mr. Christopher Whalen
Managing Director, Institutional Risk Analytics
Dr. David Colander
Christian A. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Economics, Middlebury College
Subcommittees: Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight (111th Congress)
The Risks of Financial Modeling: VaR and the Economic Meltdown