Thursday, March 14, 2013

SIEPR Economic Summit 2013 at Stanford

Tomorrow , March 15  is the SIEPR Economic Summit 2013 at Stanford.


Moderator: Steve Kohlhagen, Member, SIEPR Advisory Board
7:30 – 8:00 Breakfast 

8:00 – 9:00 Opening Remarks: Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and co-CIO, PIMCO

9:00 – 10:20 SESSION I: Comprehensive Tax Reform 
Moderator: Jim Poterba, President, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Mitsui Professor of Economics, MIT; Member, SIEPR Advisory Board
Glenn Hubbard, Dean, Columbia Business School; former chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA)
Leonard Burman, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs, Maxwell School, Syracuse University

10:40 – 12:00 SESSION II: Health Policy After Obamacare 
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution
Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, Diane V.S. Levy and Robert M. Levy University Professor; Professor of Health Care Management; and Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Wharton; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch 
12:45 – 1:30 Lunch Remarks 
David Wessel, Author, Red Ink (Random House 2012); Economics Editor, The Wall Street Journal; and Pulitzer Prize Winner

1:50 – 3:10 SESSION III: The Future of Europe
John Lipsky, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; Member, SIEPR Advisory Board
Janice Eberly, Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, Department of the Treasury

3:10 – 4:10 SESSION IV: Who Gets What: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design 
Alvin Roth, Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics, Stanford University; 2012 Nobel Laureate, Economics; Senior Fellow, SIEPR

4:30 – 5:45 Critical Issue Sessions - Panels will address four important topics of the year:
Can India Keep Pace?, The Online Learning Revolution, Designing California's New Health Care Exchange, Environment and the Economy

THE EVENING
6:00 – 6:45 Reception
6:45 – 9:00 Dinner and Keynote Speaker
Axel Weber, Chairman of the Board, UBS AG; former President, Deutsche Bundesbank

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