Professor Edward Altman: The Final Battle for the Euro Will Be Fought on Italy’s Shores

Jim is pleased to welcome Edward Altman, Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. Dr. Altman sees Italy as the final battleground for the survival of the Euro. His analysis is based on the use of a new metric he and his colleagues have developed to estimate the financial health of sovereigns.

Edward I. Altman is the Max L. Heine Professor of Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. He is the Director of Research in Credit and Debt Markets at the NYU Salomon Center for the Study of Financial Institutions.