Financial crises: what should academics say?

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Financial crises: what should academics say?

OPINION. Did the academics play their part and sufficiently informed and alerted to the risks around Credit Suisse before its fall? For Beat Bürgenmeier from Geneva, most finance professors working for the financial sector have failed to fulfill their legal obligation to inform the public.The silence of most finance professors during the Credit Suisse crisis continues to be debated. It recently led to a statement by the director of the Swiss Fin…