Tuesday, February 18, 2014 | 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
AEI, Twelfth Floor
1150 Seventeenth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20036
RSVP:
http://www.aei.org/events/2014/02/18/the-detroit-bankruptcy-conflicts-and-implications/
About This Event
The city of Detroit represents the biggest municipal bankruptcy in history. Its insolvency presents difficult legal, financial, and political issues and conflicts — notably, the competing claims of public employee pensions and bondholders (including the fate of the city’s great art collection).
What should be done to settle the Detroit insolvency? And how will this historic financial failure affect the market for municipal finance, future municipal bankruptcies, the huge problem of underfunded public pension funds, the city’s battered infrastructure, and the politics of other financially troubled cities?
Our panel of experts in bankruptcy, municipal finance, pensions, infrastructure, and politics will address these and related issues.
If you are unable to attend, we welcome you to watch the event live on this page. Full video will be posted within 24 hours.
Agenda
1:45 PM
Registration
2:00 PM
Introduction:
Alex J. Pollock, AEI
2:05 PM
Panelists:
Michael Barone, AEI
Andrew G. Biggs, AEI
R. Richard Geddes, Cornell University and AEI
John Mousseau, Cumberland Advisors
David Skeel, University of Pennsylvania Law School
Moderator:
Alex J. Pollock, AEI
4:00 PM
Adjournment
Event Contact Information
For more information, please contact Emily Rapp at [email protected], 202.419.5212.
Media Contact Information
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