China Financial Markets

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Wall Street veteran, merchant banker, equities trader, economist, finance professor, entrepreneur — iconoclast — Michael Pettis is a unique individual living and working in China, at the heart of the world’s most exciting and vibrant economy.

Having learned firsthand how markets operate during his years on Wall Street, Michael has taken his knowledge and insight and applied them to the Asian financial markets as an expert analyst, commentator, and participant. His work and research focuses on monetary policy, trade policy, and the development of the banking and financial markets in China.

Michael is the author of The Volatility Machine: Emerging Economics and the Threat of Financial Collapse. The book is a classic examination of the causes of financial crises in emerging-market countries and is critical reading for investors, businesspeople and anyone else interested in understanding where the international economy is going.

His current book is Avoiding the Fall: China’s Economic Restructuring. He is also co-author of the recently published The Great Rebalancing: Trade, Conflict, and the Perilous Road Ahead for the World Economy.

Michael is a contributor to the Financial Times. He is published in Foreign Affairs,Foreign Policy, Far Eastern Economic Review, and The Wall Street Journal, just to name a few. Pettis writes an influential and widely-respected blog China Financial Markets.