Moderated by John Shoven, Former Trione Director of SIEPR and the Charles R. Schwab Professor Emeritus of Economics, Stanford University
Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA
Moderated by John Shoven, Former Trione Director of SIEPR and the Charles R. Schwab Professor Emeritus of Economics, Stanford University
Moderated by John Shoven, Former Trione Director of SIEPR and the Charles R. Schwab Professor Emeritus of Economics, Stanford University
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Moderated by John Shoven, Former Trione Director of SIEPR and the Charles R. Schwab Professor Emeritus of Economics, Stanford University
With the Biden administration and congressional Republicans wrangling over the debt ceiling, join us for a better understanding of the nation’s borrowing authority. Ben Harris recently served in the U.S. Treasury Department and has a unique perspective on the work policymakers are faced with to pay the country’s bills and avoid defaulting on debts.
About the Speaker:
Ben Harris recently served as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist with the U.S. Treasury Department. Prior to joining Treasury, Harris was the executive director of the Kellogg Public-Private Initiative and a research associate professor at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, in addition to serving as the chief economist to the evidence-based policy organization Results for America. Earlier in his career, he served as the chief economist and economic adviser to then-Vice President Joe Biden and held several roles at the Brookings Institution, including policy director of The Hamilton Project, a fellow in the Economic Studies program, and deputy director of the Retirement Security Project.
Ben Hueso, former California State Senator
Carlos González Gutiérrez, Consul General of Mexico in San Diego
Moderator -Professor Ran Abramitzky, Stanford
Professor Renee Bowen, UCSD
Professor Gerardo Esquivel, El Colegio de Mexico
Moderator - Professor Melanie Morten, Stanford
David Kennedy, Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History Emeritus, Founding Faculty Co-director, Bill Lane Center for the American West
The 2023 symposium will mark the 10th joint program between the Bill Lane Center for the American West and SIEPR. It will focus on relations among the continent’s three sovereign nations, with special attention to the continuing crisis along the US-Mexican border – all of which runs through the four “frontline” western states of California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
Richard Clarida's presentation is followed by a Q&A moderated by SIEPR Director Mark Duggan.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Clarida is a managing director in the New York office and PIMCO's global economic advisor. Prior to rejoining PIMCO in 2022, he was the firm's global strategic advisor from 2006 to 2018. He served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System from September 2018 to January 2022. Dr. Clarida is also the C. Lowell Harriss Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Columbia University. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2006, he was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, in which he served as chief economic advisor to two U.S. Treasury Secretaries. Earlier in his career, he was with Credit Suisse and Grossman Asset Management. He has 25 years of investment experience and holds a Ph.D. and a master's degree in economics from Harvard University. He received an undergraduate degree with Bronze Tablet Honors from the University of Illinois.
Andrew Biggs, American Enterprise Institute
Debra Whitman, AARP
Moderator: John Shoven, Stanford University
Gopi Shah Goda, SIEPR Senior Fellow
Karen Smith, Urban Institute
William Spriggs, Howard University
Moderator: David Molitor, University of Illinois (visiting SIEPR)
Jason Fichtner, Bipartisan Policy Center
Kathleen Romig, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Moderator: Molly Dahl, Congressional Budget Office
Jae Song, Social Security Administration
Louise Sheiner, Brookings Institution
Moderator: Gina Li, Stanford University
Moderator: Gopi Shah Goda, Stanford University
Forty years have passed since Social Security saw any major changes. Changing demographics have resulted in deficits in program finances, and nonpartisan congressional budget forecasters project trust fund reserves to run out by 2034. This imbalance is easier dealt with sooner than later -- so what prevents policymakers from taking action? Join us on April 21st for an examination of past and present policies that are guiding Social Security’s future.
Learn more about the King Center and our next events at https://kingcenter.stanford.edu
Professor Duflo discussed the disproportionate impact of climate change on people in poverty, and why countries need to invest in policy innovation, not just technological innovation, to confront it. She highlighted why evidence on the impact of climate solutions is crucial for effective and equitable climate action.
To learn more about the King Center and attend future events, please visit our website: https://kingcenter.stanford.edu/events
Speakers:
Lawrence H. Summers, 71st U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
Patricia McKenna, Principal and Portfolio Manager at Hotchkis & Wiley
Speakers:
Robert Litterman, Founding Partner, Kepos Capital
Arun Majumdar, Chester Naramore Dean of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability, Jay Precourt Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Energy Science and Engineering, and Senior Fellow and former Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University
Catherine Wolfram, Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, on leave from UC Berkeley
Speakers:
Eric Yuan, Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Zoom Video Communications
John Hennessy, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University
Karin Kimbrough, Chief Economist, LinkedIn
Nick Bloom, William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University, SIEPR Senior Fellow, and the Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research
Speakers:
Thomas Barkin, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Chenzi Xu, Faculty Fellow at SIEPR and Assistant Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business
Speakers:
Andrew Scott, Professor of Economics at London Business School
Aysegul Sahin, Richard J. Gonzalez Regents Chair in Economics at University of Texas at Austin and a research associate of the NBER Economic Fluctuations and Growth and Monetary Economics groups
Adrien Auclert, Faculty Fellow at SIEPR and Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics
Speakers:
Scott Kennedy, Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
Michael Pillsbury, Senior Fellow for China Strategy, the Heritage Foundation.
Chenggang Xu, Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions (SCCEI), and Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Jialu Streeter, Director of Partnerships and Research Scholar at SIEPR
About the Speaker:
Bo Li assumed the role of Deputy Managing Director at the International Monetary Fund in August 2021. He is responsible for the IMF’s work on about 90 countries as well as on a wide range of policy issues.
Before joining the IMF, he worked at the People’s Bank of China, most recently as Deputy Governor. He earlier headed the Monetary Policy, Monetary Policy II, and Legal and Regulation Departments, where he played an important role in the reform of state-owned banks, the drafting of China’s anti-money-laundering law, the internationalization of the renminbi, and the establishment of China’s macroprudential policy framework.
Outside of the PBoC, he was the Vice Mayor of Chongqing—China’s largest municipality, with a population of over 30 million—where he oversaw the city’s financial-sector development, international trade, and foreign direct investment. He was also Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese. He started his career at the New York law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell, where he was a practicing attorney for five years.
Bo Li holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and an M.A. from Boston University, both in economics, as well as a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He received his undergraduate education from Renmin University of China in Beijing.
About the Speaker
Johnathan Coslet
Mr. Coslet is the Vice Chairman of TPG Global and has been with the firm since 1993. He previously served as Chief Investment Officer from 2008 - 2020. Mr. Coslet currently serves on the board of TPG, Cushman & Wakefield, Crunch Fitness, LifeTime Fitness and Nextracker, and, during his tenure with TPG, has served on the Boards of Directors of several public and private companies, including Biomet, Endurance Specialty, FIS, Iasis Healthcare, IQVIA, JCrew, Neiman Marcus, Oxford Health Plans, Petco, and Quintiles. Prior to joining TPG, Mr. Coslet worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, and before that Drexel Burnham Lambert. He received his BS in economics and finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he was Valedictorian, Steur Fellow and Gordon Fellow, and his MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar and Loeb Scholar. Jonathan currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Stanford Children’s Hospital. He has also served on the Board of Trustees of Menlo School, the Stanford Medicine Board of Fellows, the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, the Harvard Business School Board of Advisors, the San Francisco Federal Reserve Board of Advisors, and the Hamilton Project.
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Michael Sandel, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University; author of Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, The Tyranny of Merit: Can We Find the Common Good?, and Democracy's Discontent: A New Edition for Our Perilous Times.
Moderator: Mark Duggan, the Trione Director of SIEPR, the Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics, Stanford University
Michael Coleman, Creator of the California Local Government Finance Almanac; Principal Fiscal Policy Advisor to the League of California Cities.
Gabriel Petek, California Legislative Analyst. LAO.
Joshua Rauh, the Ormond Family Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business. Senior Fellow at SIEPR. Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Moderator: Gopi Shah Goda, Deputy Director and Senior Fellow, SIEPR.
Speakers:
Juan Carlos Suarez Serrato, Professor of Economics, Duke University.
Alan Auerbach, the Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law, UC Berkeley. Marcus Heyland, Managing Director, Washington National Tax, KPMG US.
Moderator: Rebecca Lester, Associate Professor of Accounting, Stanford Graduate School of Business; SIEPR Faculty Fellow.
Speakers:
Kimberly Clausing, the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy, UCLA; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Tax Analysis in the US Department of the Treasury.
Tyler Goodspeed, Kleinheinz Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Former Acting Chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Scott Hodge, President Emeritus and Senior Policy Advisor, the Tax Foundation.
Moderator: Mark Wolfson, Former Chaired Professor and Senior Associate Dean at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; Founder and Managing Partner of Jasper Ridge Partners.
Every year, low- and middle-income countries receive $30 billion in loans and other aid from multilateral agencies. Such aid traditionally comes with strict conditions, the effectiveness of which has been widely debated for the past few decades. Do conditions promote accountability and development impacts? At what cost to the recipient country’s institutions or political independence? The debate on conditionality has been reignited by the recent surge in loans from new sources, including China, that impose few to no conditions on recipient countries.
The event featured Edward Miguel, Oxfam Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of California, Berkeley, who discussed current tensions, building on the example of a large-scale, foreign-aid funded electrification program in Kenya. King Center Faculty Director and Kleinheinz Family Professor in International Studies, Pascaline Dupas, moderated the Q&A portion of the event.
For more information, please visit https://kingcenter.stanford.edu/
More than 160,000 Californians are without housing — a number close to the populations of Salinas or Hayward. Despite the billions of government and private dollars spent to prevent homelessness, that number continues to rise in California while it dips nationwide.
Is this the result of failed policies and misguided efforts? Is homelessness too complex and intractable to solve in a state so large? Do we even have enough data to support a particular path forward?
SIEPR’s spring Policy Forum brings together leading experts to delve into some of the issues driving the crisis and offer their ideas on how to address them. We’ll take stock of housing prices and shortages, mental illness and drug addiction, criminal justice, and an already fragile economic landscape.
This event was held on May 19th, 2022.
This event will be moderated by Mark Duggan, Trione Director of SIEPR, and the Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics.
Jonathan Levin is Co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Chainalysis, the blockchain analysis company. In his role as CSO, he is responsible for designing long-term strategic initiatives that help government agencies, cryptocurrency businesses, and financial institutions investigate illicit activity, comply with regulations, and mitigate risk through anti-money laundering technology and education. Jonathan is regularly called upon to testify for the U.S. Congress and other government hearings on the emerging risks and opportunities in cryptocurrencies. He is also a mentor for the Techstars Alchemist Blockchain accelerator. Prior to Chainalysis, he was the CEO of Coinometrics, which provided the first dashboard of blockchain intelligence. He was also a postgraduate economist at the University of Oxford, where he researched cryptocurrencies. Jonathan holds a BSC in Economics from Bristol University and Master of Philosophy in Economics from the University of Oxford. He lives in New York.
To view full-length interviews of subjects in these videos, visit: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtvjGX9a29nwwlTvEV1LEYDk_igHpw-rS
Twenty-five percent of unhoused people in America live in California, a state that claims 12 percent of the nation's population. SIEPR Research Scholar Jialu Streeter leads policymakers, advocates and scholars through a discussion of the housing regulations and policies that have contributed to – and attempted to ease – homelessness over the past several decades.
7:18 Housing Regulations, Shortage and Unaffordability
17:43 Transportation Infrastructure
20:31Housing First or Shelter First
33:13 Housing First in Practice
38:33 Homeless Encampment
To view full-length interviews of subjects in these videos, visit: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtvjGX9a29nwwlTvEV1LEYDk_igHpw-rS
Mental illness, drug addiction and crime are another important dimension to the causes and consequences of homelessness. SIEPR's Jialu Streeter continues her exploration of homelessness in California with experts from the front lines of policy and experience.
1:43 What percentage of the street homeless have mental illness or drug addiction?
7:12 Crime and public safety
14:20 Drug Crisis
27:09 Mental Health Crisis