Contents -- Financial Innovation and Economic Crisis: An Introduction -- INVENTORS, PRODUCTS, AND INVESTORS IN FINANCE -- 1 Inventors in Finance: An Impressionistic History of the People Who Have Made Risk Management Work -- 2 Psychology and the Financial Crisis of 2007 - 2008 -- 3 Understanding Inflation-Indexed Bond Markets -- 4 Crisis and Innovation in the Housing Economy: A Tale of Three Markets -- 5 Style Investing -- 6 MacroMarkets and the Practice of Financial Innovation -- 7 Robert J. Shiller: Innovator in Financial Markets, Winner of the 2009 Deutsche Bank Prize in Financial Economics -- FINANCIAL INNOVATION AND CRISIS: PERSPECTIVES FROM POLICY AND PRACTICE -- 8 Systemic Risk and the Role of Financial Innovation -- 9 Financial Markets: Productivity, Procyclicality, and Policy -- 10 Financial Innovation: Balancing Private and Public Interests -- 11 Market Efficiency, Rational Expectations, and Financial Innovation -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index.