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2007 Event Materials
December 20- "Can Consumer-Directed Health Care Improve the Quality of Health Care?"
Anthony T. Lo Sasso, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Senior Research Scientist
Division of Health Policy and Administration,
School of Public Health
University of Illinois at Chicago
Podcast
December 13 - “Should Corporate Income Mirror the Income Reported for Tax Purposes?”
Michelle Hanlon
Associate Professor of Accounting,
University of Michigan
Slideshow | Podcast | Rapporteur
December 6 - “The Conspiracy of Ignorance about Oil: A Wall Street Perspective”
Paul Sankey
Energy Analyst,
Deutsche Bank
Slideshow | Podcast | Report | Rapporteur
November 29 - "“The Dormant Commerce Clause and the Balkanization of the Municipal Bond Market"
Alan D. Viard
Resident Scholar,
American Enterprise Institute
Slideshow | Rapporteur | Podcast
November 15 - “Productivity and Economic Development”
Bill Lewis
Former managing partner,
McKinsey Global Institute
Author of The Power of Productivity
Slideshow | Podcast
November 8 - "" The Tyranny of the Market: Why you can’t always get what you Want"
Joel Waldfogel,
Ehrenkranz Family Professor and Chair Department of Business and Public Policy
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
and Research Associate,
NBER Assistant Professor
Slideshow | Rapporteur | Podcast
November 1- “The Tax Code We Deserve: What the Inevitable Reform of 2010 Should Look Like”
Jason Furman
Director of the Hamilton Project and Senior Fellow,
The Brookings Institution
and
Kevin Hassett
Director of Economic Studies,
American Enterprise Institute
Podcast | Rapporteur
October 25 - “The Myth of the Rational Voter”
Bryan Caplan
Professor,
George Mason University,
and author, The Myth of the Rational Voter
Rapporteur | Podcast
October 18 - “World Event Trading”
Andrew Busch
Director, BMO Capital Markets
Rapporteur
October 11 - "Politico-Economic Determinants of American Trade Policy Attitudes"
Michael Hoffman
Government Accountability Office
Slideshow | Podcast
October 4 - "Social Security and Marginal Returns to Work Near Retirement”
Andrew Biggs
Deputy Commissioner, Social Security Administration
Slideshow | Podcast | Rapporteur
September 27 -" Health Policy: What We Think We Know That Just Isn’t So; What We Don’t Want to Know; What We Need to Know; and Where We Ought to Go”
Tom Miller
American Enterprise Institute
Podcast | Slideshow | Rapporteur
September 20 - Building Automatic Solvency into U.S. Social Security: Insights from Sweden and Germany"
in conjunction with the Society of Government Economists
James C. Capretta
Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center
Slideshow | Podcast | Rapporteur
Annual Dinner
Alan Krueger
Princeton University
Slideshow | Rapporteur
September 12 - “Intelligence and National Economic Performance”
Garett Jones
Assistant Professor,
George Mason University
Podcast | Rapporteur
September 6 - “U.S. Productivity: Past, Present and Future”
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.
President,
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Slideshow (PDF 120 K) | Podcast | Rapporteur
July 24- “The U.S. Economic Outlook”
Edward Lazear
Chairman,
Council of Economic Advisers
Slideshow (PDF 22 K) | Rapporteur
July 19 - The AMT: Why it Matters and Why it is a Hard Fix”
Leonard Burman
Senior Fellow,
Urban Institute and Director, Tax Policy Center“
Slideshow (PDF, 187 K)| Podcast (MP3, 22.8 MB) | Rapporteur
July 18 - " The Federal Burden for Health Care Spending"
Peter Orszag
Director,
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Slideshow | Podcast (MP3, 20.6 MB) | Rapporteur
July 12- "Private Markets, Risk and the Housing Market Correction"
John Silvia
Chief Economist,
Wachovia Corporation
Slideshow | Podcast (MP3, 20.7 MB) | Rapporteur
June 26 - "The Economics, Policy, and Politics of Poverty Reduction"
Jared Bernstein, Director of Living Standards Program, Economic Policy Institute
Mark Greenberg, Executive Director, Task Force on Poverty, Center for American Progress
Slideshow | Podcast | Rapporteur
June 21 - "The Evolution of Earnings and Income Volatility"
Karen Dynan
Chief Household and Real Estate Finance Section Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board
Douglas Elemdorf
Senior Fellow,
Brookings Institution
Daniel E. Sichel
Assistant Director, Division of Research and Statistics, Federal Reserve Board
Slideshow | Rapporteur
June 14 - "Financing Federal Transportation with a Broad Based Tax"
William Ankner
Founder,
Transportations Solutions
Slideshow | Rapporteur
June 7 - “The New Census”
Cynthia Glassman
Under Secretary for Economic Affairs,
U.S. Department of Commerce
Podcast | Rapporteur
May 31 -"Investor Disclosure: What Have We Learned"
Brian Reid
Chief Economist,
The Investment Company Institute
Podcast (MP3, 18.4 MB) | Rapporteur
May 24 - “The Economic Naturalist”
Robert Frank
Professor, Management/Economics,
Johnson School of Management, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
Podcast (MP3, 20.6 MB)
Rapporteur
May 17 - "Trade-Offs in Allocating Allowances for CO2 Emissions"
Terry Dinan
Economist,
Congressional Budget Office
Slideshow | Podcast
Dr. Dinan's talk was based on the CBO's Economic and Budget Issue Brief, "Trade-offs in Allocating Allowances for CO2 Emissions": http://cbo.gov/ftpdocs/80xx/doc8027/04-25-Cap_Trade.pdf For additional analytical work by the CBO on climate change: http://cbo.gov/publications/collections/climatechange.cfm#pt3
Rapporteur
May 16 - "Assessing the Impact of Illegal Immigration: Education Matters"
Steven Camarota
Director of Research,
The Center for Immigration Studies
Podcast (MP3), 25.2 MB) | Rapporteur
May 11 - "The Incredible Shrinking Banking Industry"
Carl Tannenbaum
Chief Economist/LaSalle Bank (Chicago)
and President/National Association for Business Economics (NABE)
Podcast (MP3, 19.9 MB)
Slideshow
Rapporteur
May 10 - “The Promise of Progressive Cost Consciousness in Health Care Reform”
Jason Furman
Director of the Hamilton Project,
The Brookings Institution
Slideshow | Podcast (MP3, 16.5 MB) | Rapporteur
May 3 - “There’s A Reason They’re Called Subprime”
David Wyss
Chief Economist,
Standard & Poor’s
Podcast (MP3, 19.3 MB) | Rapporteur
May 1 - “Prospects for the Indian Economy”
Saumitra Chaudhuri
Member, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India,
and Economic Advisor, ICRA (an Indian rating agency associated with Moody’s)
Slideshow | Podcast (MP3, 20.2 MB) | Rapporteur
April 19
Diane Rogers
Chief Economist
House Budget Committee
“Can We Really Eliminate Our Budget Deficits?”
Rapporteur
April 12
Servaas Deroose
Director, Macroeconomy of the euro area and the EU
European Commission’s Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs (Brussels)
Topic: “The Euro Area: Recovery and Reform?”
Commentator: Jorg Decressin, IMF
Deroose slides (PDF, 568 K)
Decressin slides (PDF, 291 K)
Podcast (MP3, 21.9 MB)
Rapporteur
April 5
Mark Zandi
Chief Economist
Moody's Economy.com
“Mortgage Market Fault Line”
Slideshow (PDF, 593 K)
Podcast (MP3, 18.8 MB)
Rapporteur
April 3
Dr. Ifzal Ali
Chief Economist
Asian Development Bank (Manila)
“The Asian Outlook”
Slideshow (PDF, 160K)
Rapporteur
March 29
Ellen Meade
Professor of Economics
American University
"Evolution in Central Bank
Governance around the World",
Slideshow (262 K)
Podcast (MP3, 18.4 MB)
Rapporteur
March 22
Prakash Loungani
Division Chief, Policy Communications
International Monetary Fund
“International Monetary Fund Reform: Mission Impossible?”
Podcast (MP3, 20.7 MB)
Slideshow
Rapporteur
March 15
Chester Spatt
Chief Economist
Securities and Exchange Commission
"Economic Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis: Substitutes or Complements?
Podcast (MP3, 12.8 MB)
Speech text at the SEC
Slideshow
Rapporteur
March 8
Erik Sirri
Director, Market Regulation
Securities and Exchange Commission
“Trading Globally”
Rapporteur
March 1
Wendell Primus
Senior Economic Adviser
to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi
“A Briefing on the Congressional Outlook”
Podcast (MP3, 19.3)
Rapporteur
February 22
Brian Sack
Deputy Director, Monetary Policy Insights
Macroeconomic Advisers, LLC
"Central Bank Credibility:
Myths and Realities"
Slideshow (PDF) Podcast (MP3, 19.8 MB)
Rapporteur
February 15
Roberton Williams
Urban Institute
"The President's Health Insurance Proposal"
Podcast (MP3, 22 MB)
Slideshow (PDF)
Rapporteur
February 8
Michael Mandel
Chief Economist
Business Week
“The Healthcare Economy ”
Podcast (MP3, 20 MB)
Slideshow (PDF)
Rapporteur
February 1
Donald Marron
Deputy Director
Congressional Budget Office
"The 2007 Budget and Economic Outlook"
Podcast (MP3, 13.6 MB)
Rapporteur
Report: The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2008 to 2017 (at the CBO)
January 25
Kevin McCabe
Professor of Economics
and Director, Center for the Study of Neuroeconomics
George Mason University
“The Next New Thing? Neuroeconomics”
Slideshow (PDF, 2.4 MB)
Rapporteur (Due to technical difficulties, there will be no podcast of this talk.)
January 18
Ike Brannon
Principal Economic Adviser to Senator Orrin Hatch
"Tax Credits and Capital Taxation"
Rapporteur
January 11
Alex Pollock
Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
“The SEC’s Sarbanes-Oxley Fix Needs Fixing”
Article: The SEC Takes a First Step toward Reform (at AEI)
Article: SEC's Sarbanes-Oxley Fix Needs Fixing (at AEI)
Article: Protecting Our Last International Advantage (at AEI)
Podcast (MP3, 17.5 MB) Rapporteur
January 4
Bert Ely
Bert Ely & Co
“The “Ratchet Mortgage” and Its Many Benefits”
Slides (PDF) Podcast (MP3, 61 MB) Rapporteur
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