The Directors' Table – The global financial crisis of 2031 (with Ross Levine)

In this fourth episode of The Directors’ Table, Thorsten Beck (Director of the Florence School of Banking and Finance) sits down with American economist Ross Levine, Professor at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.

Together, they revisit the 2007–08 global financial crisis and pose the unsettling question: when, not if, will the next one strike? Looking ahead to 2031, they explore how incentives, risk-taking, and regulatory shortcomings may already be laying the foundations of the next global shock.
Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on why financial crises never disappear, only re-emerge in new shapes and colours.

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