Mohamed El-Erian

Opening Remarks

Mohamed El-Erian, CEO and co-CIO, PIMCO kicked off the 10th Annual SIEPR Economic Summit with a thoughtful discussion about four drivers in the economy that are affecting us all right now.


 

Session 1:  Comprehensive Tax Reform

Moderator: Jim Poterba, President, National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Mitsui Professor of Economics, MIT; Member, SIEPR Advisory Board
Leonard Burman, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Professor of Public Affairs, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean, Columbia Business School; former chair of the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA)

Jim Poterba moderated the Comprehensive Tax Reform panel. Along with Len Burman and Glenn Hubbard they believe that within the next 12-18 months there is a better chance at significant reform than ever before.

Session 2: Health Policy After
Obamacare

Ezekiel Emanuel, MD, PhD, 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
Mark McClellan, MD, PhD, Director, Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform and Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies, The Brookings Institution

Zeke Emanuel and Mark McClellan shared their views on the state of health care and its cost in a session chaired by moderator Steve Kohlhagen in a panel called Health Policy after Obamacare.

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McClellan's Slides
Emauel's Slides

Lunch Remarks: The Budget,
the Deficit, and the Economy:
The View from Washington

David Wessel, Author, Red Ink (Random House 2012); Economics Editor, The Wall Street Journal; and Pulitzer Prize Winner

David Wessel, economics editor and columnist at The Wall Street Journal shared his views about what is keeping America down..........unemployment.


 

Session 3:  The Future of
Europe and What's at Stake

Janice Eberly, Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy, Department of U. S. the Treasury
John Lipsky, Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University; Member, SIEPR Advisory Board

John Lipsky and Janice Eberly spoke about The Future of Europe and What's at Stake for the United States.

 
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John Lipsky
Janice Eberly

Session 4:  Who Gets What:
The New Economics of
Matchmaking and Market
Design

Alvin Roth, Craig and Susan McCaw Professor of Economics, Stanford University; 2012 Nobel Laureate, Economics; Senior Fellow, SIEPR

2012 Nobel winner (in Economics) Al Roth shared his ideas about matching and market design with the Summit audience.

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Session 1: The Online Learning Revolution

Moderator: Wally Hawley, Co-Founder, InterWest Partners; member, SIEPR Advisory Board
Randy Best, Chairman, Best Associates
Daphne Koller, Rajeev Motwoni Professor of Computer Science, Stanford University; Co-Founder, Coursera
Minli Virdone, Head of Strategy and Programs, Khan Academy

Session 2: Climate Change Policy

Moderator: George Shultz, Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution; Honorary Chair, SIEPR Advisory Board
Lawrence Goulder, The Shuzo Nishihara Professor in Environmental and Resource Economics at Stanford University; Director of the Stanford Environmental and Energy Policy Analysis Center (SEEPAC); Senior Fellow, SIEPR
Charles Kolstad, Senior Fellow, SIEPR
Robert Weisenmiller, Chairman, California Energy Commission

Session 3: Can India Keep Pace?

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 4: Designing California's New Health Care Exchange

Moderator: John Freidenrich, Regis Management Company, LLC; member, SIEPR Advisory Board
Tom MaCurdy, Professor of Economics, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution and SIEPR
Marian Mulkey, Director of Health Reform and Public Programs, California Healthcare Foundation
Sarah Varney, Senior Reporter, NPR and Kaiser Family Foundation

Thomas Friedman - Keynote Speaker

Tom Friedman, The New York Times foreign-affairs Op-Ed columnist shared his views from his latest book That Used to be Us:  How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back at the 10th Annual SIEPR Economic Summit.