Hosted by 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
| 8:00-8:30 | Coffee and registration |
| 8:30-8:45 | Welcome and opening remarks |
Policy Panels 1
| 8:45-9:45 | Energy Transition: What does new research teach us? Mar Reguant (Northwestern), Joe Shapiro (Berkeley), Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard) |
| 9:45-10:45 | Health Policy: Diagnosing the ills of the U.S. health care system Marcella Alsan (Harvard), Zach Cooper (Yale), Ilyana Kuziemko (Princeton) |
| 10:45-11:00 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00-12:00 | Taxing Capital in a Globalized World: What comes next? Kimberly Clausing (UCLA), Juliana Londoño-Vélez (UCLA), Zachary Liscow (OMB and Yale Law School), Gabriel Zucman (Berkeley) |
| 12:00-1:00 | Industrial Policy: Has the resurgence in industrial policy put us on the right track, or is it leading us astray? Pierre Azoulay (MIT), Erica Fuchs (CMU), Dani Rodrik (Harvard), Chuck Sabel (Columbia) |
| 1:00-2:00 | Lunch (on your own) |
Policy Panels 2
| 2:00-3:00 | Access to and Financing of Higher Education: How to democratize access to 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) |
March 31
Economics Panels 2
| 8:30-9:00 | Coffee and registration |
| 9:00-10:00 | Innovation, Business Dynamism and Growth: What policies can foster innovation and creativity in the 21st century? Ufuk Akcigit (Chicago), Barbara Biasi (Yale), Petra Moser (NYU) |
| 10:00-11:00 | Inflation and Macro-Stability: Do we need a new framework? 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: Hyper-globalization is dead. What will replace it? Jayati Ghosh (UMass), Henry Farrell (Johns Hopkins), and Michael Clemens (CGD), moderated by Dani Rodrik (Harvard) |
| 12:15-1:30 | Lunch (on your own) |
| 1:30-2:30 | The Composition of the Economics Discipline: Who becomes an economist, and is it a good thing? Zachary Bleemer (Yale), Anna Stansbury (Sloan) |
| 2:30-2:45 | Coffee Break |
Blue-sky Panels
| 2:45-3:45 | Does Philanthropy Have a Role in the Evolution of Academic Economics? William Janeway (Cambridge, Princeton, and Warburg Pincus), Brian Kettenring (Hewlett), Shayna Strom (Equitable Growth) |
| 3:45-4:45 | Evidence and Institutional Redesign Eva Vivalt (U Toronto), Max Kasy (Harvard), Arin Dube (UMass Amherst) |
| 4:45-5:30 | Closing discussion and next steps |
[*] We thank the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation for financial support for the conference.
The Stone Program in Wealth Distribution, Inequality and Social Policy and the Reimagining the Economy project at the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy are conference co-sponsors.
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