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2019 SIEPR Economic Summit

Event Details:

Friday, March 8, 2019
7:45am - 8:15pm PST

Location

Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center
326 Galvez St
Stanford, CA 94305
United States

Contact

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Your digital privacy is under attack. Pot is legal in more than 30 states. Trade wars are being waged, and regulators are trying to keep pace with the tech giants.

This year’s SIEPR Summit will examine the economic impacts of these issues, among others, and expose how they’re playing out in government agencies and businesses. Join us on Friday, March 8, 2019, for panels and keynotes featuring top scholars, business leaders and prominent policymakers.

Thank you to our Corporate Sponsors: Dodge & Cox and Heidrick & Struggles.

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Admission

By invitation only. Event Registration will close once we reach capacity; this may be before the deadline of February 14.

Valet

Complimentary valet parking is available

Hotels

Sheraton Palo Alto - $234 per night
Westin Palo Alto - $284 per night
Book your reservation online. Last day to book a hotel room at this rate is Monday, February 11th. 

 

Schedule

Friday, March 8, 2019

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    Registration and continental breakfast

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    Welcoming Remarks by Mark Duggan

    Mark Duggan, The Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics, Stanford University

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    Remarks by Patrick Collison

    Patrick Collison, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Stripe

     

    Moderator:

    Nicholas Bloom, William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University, and The Ralph Landau Senior Fellow in Economic Growth at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

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    Trust, Safety and Privacy in an Era of Cyber Threats

    Alex Stamos, Adjunct Professor at the Freeman Spogli Institute, Stanford University, and former Chief Security Officer at Facebook and Yahoo

    Rachel Wilson, Managing Director and Head of Wealth Management Cybersecurity at Morgan Stanley, and former senior executive at the National Security Agency (NSA)



    Moderator:

    Nicole Perlroth, Cybersecurity Reporter at The New York Times

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    Break

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    The Legal Marijuana Marketplace

    Lori Ajax, Chief of the Bureau of Cannabis Control for the State of California

    Jonathan P. Caulkins, Professor of Operations Research and Public Policy at Heinz College, Carnegie Mellon University, and former Co-director of RAND's Drug Policy Research Center

     

    Moderator: 

    Alicia Wallace, Business Journalist, and Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism, Columbia University 2018-2019

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    Trade’s Trade Winds

    Susan Lund, Partner of McKinsey & Company

    Tamara Lundgren, President and Chief Executive Officer of Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc.

    Alan O. Sykes, Professor of Law, Stanford University, and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

     

    Moderator: 

    Judith L. Goldstein, Chair of the Department of Political Science and Janet M. Peck Professor of International Communication, Stanford University, and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

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    Lunch

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    Fireside Chat with Mary Callahan Erdoes

    Mary Callahan Erdoes, Chief Executive Officer of J.P. Morgan Asset & Wealth Management

     

    Moderator: 

    Darrell Duffie, Dean Witter Distinguished Professor of Finance at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

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    Technology, Platforms and Competition

    Carl Shapiro, Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley, and former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics at the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice

    Tommaso Valletti, Chief Competition Economist of the European Commission Directorates General Competition, and Professor of Economics, Imperial College Business School and University of Rome Tor Vergata

     

    Moderator: 

    Greg Rosston, Director of the Public Policy Program, Stanford University, and Gordon Cain Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

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    Break and Move to Critical Issue Sessions

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    Critical Issue Sessions

    I. Brexit

    Location: Fisher Conference Center - Right

    Nicholas Bloom, William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University, and The Ralph Landau Senior Fellow in Economic Growth at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

    Tom Montag, Chief Operating Officer of Bank of America

    Moderator: 

    Laura King, Global Affairs Correspondent for the Los Angeles Times

     

    II. Emerging Economies

    Location: Gunn–SIEPR Building (366 Galvez Street), the Koret-Taube Conference Center

    Jeongmin Seong, Senior Fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute

    Jose Ursua, Macroeconomist at Dodge & Cox

    Moderator: 

    Katherine CaseyAssociate Professor of Political Economy at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

     

    III. Healthcare Innovation

    Location: Fisher Conference Center - Left

    Stephen Sherwin, Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

    Heidi Williams, Associate Professor, MIT Department of Economics, and Trione Visiting Associate Professor at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) 2018-2019

    Moderator: 

    Andrew Pollack, Biotechnology Reporter

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    Reception

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    Dinner and Remarks by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell

    Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve

     

    Moderator: 

    Mark Duggan, The Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), The Wayne and Jodi Cooperman Professor of Economics, Stanford University

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