To be held at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School
Organized by Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton), Atif Mian (Princeton), Suresh Naidu (Columbia), Dani Rodrik (Harvard), Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard), and Gabriel Zucman (Berkeley)*
Draft Schedule
March 30
8:30-8:45 | Welcome and opening remarks |
Policy Panels 1
8:45-9:45 | Energy Transition Mar Reguant (Northwestern), Joe Shapiro (Berkeley), Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard) |
9:45-10:45 | Health Policy Marcella Alsan (Harvard), Zach Cooper (Yale), Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton) |
10:45-11:00 | Coffee Break |
11:00-12:00 | Tax Policy Kimberly Clausing (UCLA), Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UCLA), Gabriel Zucman (Berkeley) |
12:00-1:00 | Industrial Policy Pierre Azoulay (MIT), Erica Fuchs (CMU), Dani Rodrik (Harvard), Chuck Sabel (Columbia) |
1:00-2:00 | Lunch |
Policy Panels 2
2:00-3:00 | Access to and Financing of Higher Education Jesse Rothstein (Berkeley), David Deming (Harvard), Sue Dynarski (Harvard) |
3:00-3:15 | Coffee Break |
Economics Panels 1
3:15-4:15 | Labor Market and Wage Dynamics After Covid Anna Stansbury (Sloan), Sydnee Caldwell (Berkeley), Simon Jager (IZA) |
4:15-5:15 | Market Structure and Industrial Organization: Do we need a new antitrust standard? Steve Berry (Yale), Ioana Marinescu (UPenn), Tommaso Valletti (ICL) |
Day 2
Economics Panels 2
9:00-10:00 | Innovation, Business Dynamism and Growth Ufuk Akcigit (Chicago), Barbara Biasi (Yale), Petra Moser (NYU) |
10:00-11:00 | Inflation and Macro-Stability Atif Mian (Princeton), Anat Admati (Stanford), Gauti Eggertson (Brown), Wendy Carlin (UCL) |
11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break |
11:15-12:15 | Globalization with Nuance Jayati Ghosh (UMass), Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins), and Michael Clemens (CGD), moderated by Dani Rodrik (Harvard) |
12:15-1:30 | Lunch |
1:30-2:30 | The Composition of the Economics Discipline Zachary Bleemer (Yale), Anna Stansbury (Sloan), Sandra Black (Columbia) |
2:30-2:45 | Coffee Break |
Blue-sky Panels
2:45-3:45 | Philanthropy and a New Economics? William Janeway (Cambridge, Princeton, and Warburg Pincus), Brian Kettenring (Hewlett), Shayna Strom (Equitable growth) |
3:45-4:45 | Evidence and Institutional Redesign Rediet Abebe (Berkeley, TBC), Eva Vivalt (U Toronto), Max Kasy (Harvard), Arin Dube (UMass Amherst) |
4:45-5:30 | Closing discussion and next steps |
[*] We thank the Hewlett Foundation and the Wiener Center for financial and logistical support.