2019 SIEPR Economic Summit

Friday, March 8, 2019

• 7:45am - 8:15am PST

  Registration and continental breakfast

• 8:15am - 8:20am PST

  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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• 8:20am - 9:00am PST

  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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• 9:00am - 10:00am PST

  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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• 10:00am - 10:30am PST

  Break

• 10:30am - 11:30am PST

  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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• 11:30am - 12:45pm PST

  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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• 12:45pm - 1:45pm PST

  Lunch

• 1:45pm - 2:45pm PST

  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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• 2:45pm - 3:45pm PST

  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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• 3:45pm - 4:15pm PST

  Break and Move to Critical Issue Sessions

• 4:15pm - 5:15pm PST

  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 Casey, Associate 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

• 5:15pm - 6:00pm PST

  Reception

• 6:00pm - 8:15pm PST

  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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