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NBER Corporate Associates
Research Symposium |
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June 5, 2017 |
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Sofitel Hotel |
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12:00 pm |
Luncheon |
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12:30 pm |
Robert Gordon, Northwestern
University & NBER |
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"The Recent Decline in U.S.
Productivity Growth and Prospects for the Future" |
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1:30 pm |
Break |
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1:40 pm |
Judith Scott-Clayton, Columbia
University & NBER |
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"Strategies for Improving
College Access and College Completion" |
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2:20 pm |
Mark Watson, Princeton
University & NBER |
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"The Stability of Inflation
Expectations: U.S. Evidence with Lessons for Monetary Policy" |
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3:00 pm |
Break |
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3:10 pm |
Douglas Irwin, Dartmouth College
& NBER |
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"U.S. Trade Policy: Current
Developments through the Lens of History" |
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3:50 pm |
Concluding Remarks: |
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James Poterba, MIT & NBER
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Jack Kleinhenz,
National Retail Federation & NABE |
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4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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Robert J. Gordon is the Stanley G. Harris
Professor in the Social Sciences and Professor of Economics at Northwestern
University. He is an expert on inflation, unemployment, and long-term
economic growth, and the author of the highly-acclaimed 2016 book The Rise
and Fall of American Growth: the U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War.
He is also the author of Macroeconomics (12th edition), The
Measurement of Durable Goods Prices, The American Business Cycle, and The
Economics of New Goods. Gordon is an NBER Research Associate and
a member of the Business Cycle Dating Committee. His honors include
recognition as a Distinguished Fellow of the American Economic Association,
and as a Fellow of the Econometric Society and the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. |
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Judith Scott-Clayton is an Associate Professor of
Economics and Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and a
Faculty Research Fellow at NBER. Her primary areas of study are labor
economics and higher education policy, with a particular focus on financial
aid, student employment, and programmatic barriers to persistence and
completion at the non-selective public two- and four year institutions that
enroll the majority of undergraduates. Scott-Clayton’s recent research
on the predictive validity of college placement exams, on West Virginia's
PROMISE scholarship (a state-funded merit-based tuition grant), and on the
complexity of the federal student aid application process has attracted
widespread attention. Scott-Clayton is an active participant in policy
working groups at the state and federal level, and she has contributed to
the New
York Times' Economix and Upshot blogs,
focusing on current topics in education. |
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Mark Watson is the Howard Harrison and
Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the
Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and an NBER Research
Associate. His research focuses on time-series econometrics, empirical
macroeconomics, and macroeconomic forecasting, and he is the author of a
best-selling undergraduate econometrics textbook. Watson is a member of
the NBER’s Business Cycle Dating Committee, and a fellow of both the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Econometric Society. Before
joining the Princeton faculty in 1995, Watson taught at Harvard and at
Northwestern. |
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Douglas Irwin is the John Sloan Dickey Third
Century Professor in the Social Sciences in the Department of Economics at
Dartmouth College, and an NBER Research Associate. An expert on both
contemporary and historical trade policy and a prolific author, his books
include Free
Trade Under Fire, Trade Policy Disaster: Lessons from the 1930s, Peddling
Protectionism: Smoot-Hawley and the Great Depression, The Genesis of the GATT
(co-authored with Petros Mavroidis and Alan Sykes), and Against the
Tide: An Intellectual History of Free Trade, as well as
many articles in professional journals. Before joining the Dartmouth
faculty, he taught at the Graduate School of Business at the University of
Chicago, and was a staff economist at the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System. |