SYMPOSIUM ON PUBLIC-POLICY ISSUES IN FINANCE

The thesis of this symposium, organized by James Bicksler, was that wh ile finance theory will surely inform practitioners, it seems appropri ate to pay some attention to the opposite flow: practitioners can info rm theory. Contributors include a distinguished group of practitioners with extensive backgrounds in economics, and economists with extensiv e public policy experience: Martin Feldstein, Robert Glauber, David Mu llins, and Steven Wallman. Their topics range from privatizing social security, to managing market crashes, to the regulatory agency cost pr oblem, to regulatory constraints in a technologically advanced world.