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SIEPR Economic Summit 2013

Event Details:

Friday, March 15, 2013
12:00am - 11:55pm PDT

Location

Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
McCaw Hall
326 Galvez St
»ÆÉ«µçÓ°, CA 94305
United States

Featuring  CEO and Co-CIO, PIMCO; Alvin Roth, 2012 Nobel winner in Economics and Thomas Friedman, Foreign Affairs Columnist, New York Times

Plenary Sessions

7:15 – 8:00 Registration and Breakfast 
Moderator: , Member, SIEPR Advisory Board

8:00 Welcome 
John Shoven, Wallace R. Hawley Director, SIEPR; Charles R. Schwab Professor of Economics

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

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

10:20 - 10:40 Break

10:40 – 12:00 SESSION II: Health Policy After Obamacare 
, 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 
, Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution 

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch 

12:45 – 1:30 Lunch Remarks:  The Budget, the Deficit and the Economy:  The View from Washington
, 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 and What's at Stake for the United States
, Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, Department of U. S. the Treasury 
, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; Member, SIEPR Advisory Board 

3:10 – 4:10 SESSION IV: Who Gets What?: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design 
, Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics, »ÆÉ«µçÓ°; 2012 Nobel Laureate, Economics; Senior Fellow, SIEPR 

4:10 - 4:30 Break

4:30 – 5:45 Critical Issue Sessions - Panels will address four important topics of the year (see below):
Can India Keep Pace?, Climate Change Policy: Challenges and Opportunities, The Online Learning Revolution, Designing California's New Health Care Exchange

6:00 – 6:45 Reception 

6:45 – 9:00 Dinner and Keynote Address
Thomas Friedman, Foreign Affairs Journalist, The New York Times


Critical Issue Sessions


4:30 – 5:45 Critical Issue Sessions and Panels 

Four simultaneous sessions; please choose one to attend. 

Session I - The Online Learning Revolution Fisher Conference Center in Arrillaga
Moderator: Wally Hawley, Co-Founder, InterWest Partners; member, SIEPR Advisory Board 
Randy Best, Chairman, Best Associates 
Daphne Koller, Rajeev Motwoni Professor of Computer Science, »ÆÉ«µçÓ°; Co-Founder, Coursera 
, Head of Strategy and Programs, Khan Academy 

Session II - Climate Change Policy: Challenges and Opportunities Fisher Conference Center in Arrillaga
Moderator: George Shultz, Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution; Honorary Chair, SIEPR Advisory Board 
Lawrence Goulder, The Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at »ÆÉ«µçÓ°; Director of the »ÆÉ«µçÓ° Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis Center (SEEPAC); Senior Fellow, SIEPR 
Charles Kolstad, Senior Fellow, SIEPR 
Robert Weisenmiller, Chairman, California Energy Commission 

Session III - Can India Keep Pace? Koret-Taube Conference Center, Room 120 at SIEPR
Moderator: Anjini Kochar, India Program Director, SCID 
Deepak Kamra, General Partner, Canaan Partners 
Nagesh Parthasarathi, Consul General of India (SF) 
T.N. Srinivasan, Samuel C. Park Jr. Professor (Emeritus) of Economics and Professor (Emeritus) of International Area Studies, Yale University 

Session IV - Designing California’s New Health Care Exchange Koret-Taube Conference Center, Room 130 at SIEPR 
Moderator: John Freidenrich, Regis Management Company, LLC; member, SIEPR Advisory Board 
, Professor of Economics, »ÆÉ«µçÓ°; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and SIEPR 
, Director of Health Reform and Public Programs, California Healthcare Foundation 
, Senior Reporter, NPR and Kaiser Family Foundation

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