When I asked him after the press conference (where nearly all questions particularly by foreign press were directed at Soros) if I could speak to him, he quickly told me that unless it was to discuss the new CIGI-INET partnership, no he would not be talking to press.

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INET-CIGI plans to holds its first joint conference at the new CIGI campus in Waterloo, Ontario.

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Markus Brunnermeier of Princeton University, who is on INET's advisory board, is trying to incorporate a richer model of financial breakdowns into a fairly standard macroeconomic model with the help of Yuliy Sannikov of the University of California, Berkeley.

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The new partnership will continue some of the work of INET, which was founded in 2009 in response to the global financial crisis, promoting changes in economy theory and practice.

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Mergers between stalwarts NYSE and Nasdaq Stock Market and electronic exchanges Archipelago and Inet last year threatened extinction for the nation's regional stock exchanges, which have struggled to attract trade order flow with the boom in electronic trading.

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Mergers between stalwarts NYSE and Nasdaq Stock Market (nasdaq: NDAQ - news - people ) and electronic exchanges Archipelago and Inet last year threatened extinction for the nation's regional stock exchanges, which have struggled to attract trade order flow with the boom in electronic trading.

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