Upcoming Events (click here for membership information)

2017 Special Lunch-time Talk: Tax Havens and European Banks, March 29, 2017, 12:15 p.m.
Anne-Laure Delatte, Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies visiting scholar at Princeton University, and CEPII deputy director
By invitation only: Princeton faculty, students, fellows, and Griswold Center members and guests.
This event is organized by the European Union Program, co-sponsored by the Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, the Program in Contemporary European Politics and Society, and the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance.

2017 Spring Symposium: Monetary Policy and Financial Market Stability, April 21-22, 2017
Keynote address by Ben Bernanke, Distinguished Fellow in Residence, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution; and former chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee
By invitation only

Economic Outlook:
Jan Hatzius, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Panel: What Are the Implications of Using Monetary Policy to Support Financial Market Stability?
Darrell Duffie, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Victoria Ivashina, Harvard Business School
Chris Sims, Princeton University
Neal Soss, Credit Suisse

Keynote Closing Remarks:
Markus Brunnermeier, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics, director of the Bendheim Center for Finance, Princeton University

Past Events

2016 Fall Symposium: Inequality and Opportunity, October 14-15, 2016
Keynote address by Joseph Stiglitz, University Professor, Columbia Business School, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (Department of Economics), and the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
By invitation only

Economic Outlook:
Burton Malkiel, Princeton University

Panel: How Much Does Inequality Matter?
David Autor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, Manhattan Institute
Peter Georgescu, Young & Rubicam
Janet Gornick, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Moderated by: Ilyana Kuziemko, Princeton University

Keynote Closing Remarks:
Alan Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics and Public Policy, Princeton University

2016 Special Lunch-time Talk: Fiscal Sustainability: What Makes the Euro Area Different? October 11, 2016
Eric Leeper, Rudy Professor of Economics, Indiana University; former senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
By invitation only: Princeton faculty, students, fellows, and Griswold Center members and guests

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2016 Special Dinner: Campaign 2016: The Outlook for the Economy, September 29, 2016
R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School
By invitation only

2016 Special Lunch-time Talk: Banking Reform in the United Kingdom, September 22, 2016
Sir John Vickers, Warden, All Souls College, Oxford; former chief economist of the Bank of England
By invitation only: Princeton faculty, students, fellows, and Griswold Center members and guests

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2016 Princeton Reunions Panel Discussion: Economic Policy Issues in the 2016 Presidential Campaign, May 27, 2016
Josh Bolten '76, founder and managing director of Rock Creek Global Advisors and former chief of staff under President George W. Bush
Open to the Princeton Community - No Registration Required
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2016 Undergraduate Student Research Forum, April 28, 2016
Event Poster Open to the Princeton Community - No Registration Required

Student Speakers:
Victoria Lin '16, "Take It or Leave It: An Empirical Study of OECD Maternity Leave Policies and Female Labor Market Outcomes"
Jacqueline Marshall '16, "An Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Consumer Protection Regulations on Microfinance Institutions in Latin America and the Caribbean"
Karthik Amrutur Sastry '16, "Land Prices, Credit Frictions, and Macroeconomic Policy"
Joan Elizabeth Thompson '16, "Was the Great Recession a Shock to Health? The Effect of Severe Macroeconomic Stress on Health Outcomes and Behaviors"
Jason Yu '16, "The Partially-Employed Labor Force? An Analysis of Uber: The Voices of the Drivers"

2016 Special Dinner: Opportunities for U.S. Macroeconomic Policy, April 7, 2016
Narayana Kocherlakota, Lionel W. McKenzie Professor of Economics at the University of Rochester; former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
By invitation only

2016 Spring Symposium: Economic Policy Issues in the 2016 Presidential Campaign, February 19-20, 2016
Keynote conversation between: N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University; and Peter Orszag, Vice Chairman of Corporate and Investment Banking and Chairman of the Financial Strategy and Solutions Group, Citigroup, Inc.
By invitation only

Economic Outlook:
Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics, Inc.

Panel: Immigration and the U.S. Labor Market: Issues in the Presidential Campaign
George Borjas, Harvard Kennedy School
Randy Capps, Migration Policy Institute
Pia Orrenius, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Moderated by: Henry Farber, Princeton University

Keynote Closing Remarks:
Alan S. Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University

2015 Special Dinner: Challenges for Emerging Markets, December 1, 2015
Co-sponsored by the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance (JRCPPF)
Arminio Fraga, founding partner of Gavea Investimentos and former president of the Central Bank of Brazil
By invitation only

2015 Fall Symposium: Capital Taxation Policy, October 16-17, 2015
Keynote address by Martin Feldstein, George F. Baker Professor of Economics, Harvard University; president emeritus of the National Bureau of Economic Research
By invitation only

Economic Outlook:
Torsten Slok, Deutsche Bank Securities

Panel: Reforming the Taxation of Income from Capital
William Gale, The Brookings Institution
Kevin Hassett, American Enterprise Institute
Pam Olson, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Moderated by: Harvey Rosen, Princeton University

Keynote Closing Remarks:
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, President, American Action Forum; former director of the Congressional Budget Office

2015 Special Lunch-time Talk: U.S. Economic Diplomacy: A View from Afar, September 28, 2015
What should the United States' role be in Asia, especially China?
How should the United States respond to the efforts of emerging market economies to play a more assertive role in world affairs?
Martin Parkinson, Australia's former secretary of the Department of the Treasury; inaugural secretary of the Department of Climate Change


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2015 Princeton Reunions Panel Discussion: ObamaCare: Can it be Fixed or Should it be Repealed? May 29, 2015
Co-sponsored by the Center for Health and Wellbeing
Avik Roy, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and
Uwe Reinhardt, James Madison Professor of Political Economy. Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.

2015 Undergraduate Student Research Forum, April 30, 2015

Student Speakers:
David Li '15, "May the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor: An Empirical Analysis of British Premium Bonds"
Nicholas Stead '15, "The Sustainability of the Bank of Japan’s Balance Sheet"
Han Tran '15, "Is That a Stimulus Package in Your Pocket?: The Impact of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on Aggregate Demand"
Linda Zhong '15, "How Much Does an Hour Cost? Nonlinear Wage Growth as a Persisting Source of the Gender Wage Gap"

2015 Special Dinner: April 23, 2015
Timothy F. Geithner, 75th Secretary of the Treasury for the first term of President Barack Obama's administration; lecturer at the Yale School of Management; president of Warburg Pincus
By invitation only

2015 Spring Symposium: Monetary Policy and Labor Markets, March 27-28, 2015
Keynote address by Alan S. Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and vice chairman of the Promontory Interfinancial Network
By invitation only

Economic Outlook:
Jan Hatzius, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Panel: U.S. Labor Market: Where has it been and where is it going?
Kerwin Charles, University of Chicago
Mark Doms, U.S. Department of Commerce
John Haltiwanger, University of Maryland
Moderated by: Orley Ashenfelter, Princeton University

Keynote Closing Remarks:
Alan Krueger, Bendheim Professor in Economics and Public Policy, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; former chairman of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers

2015 Special Symposium Celebrating the Centennial of the Federal Reserve: The Fed as Bank Regulator: Will its New Supervisory Tools and Strategies Prevent another Financial Crisis? March 20, 2015
Co-sponsored by The George Washington University

Opening Remarks Video
Paul Schiff Berman, The George Washington University
Uwe Reinhardt, Griswold Center for Economic Policy Studies, Princeton University
Michael Whitehouse, Vital Venture Networks

Panel: The Fed's Evolving Role and New Responsibilities in Supervision and Regulation: U.S. and Global Implications Video
Clay Lowery, Vice President, Rock Creek Global Advisors LLC
Coryann Stefansson, Managing Director, Financial Services Advisory Practice, PwC
Jose Vinals, Financial Counsellor, Director of Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF
David Wessel, Director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, the Brookings Institution
Moderated by: Ralph (Chip) MacDonald, Partner, Jones Day

Panel: Will the Fed's New Strategies Succeed in Preventing Another Financial Crisis? Video
Michael Bradfield, General Counsel, The Volcker Alliance
Simon Johnson, Professor, MIT, Sloan School of Management
Barbara Novick, Vice Chairman, Co-Founder, Black Rock
Arthur Wilmarth, Professor, GW Law
Moderated by: Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times

Luncheon Keynote Address
Barney Frank, former member U.S. Congress (D, MA) and Chair of the House Financial Services Committee; co-author of The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act

Panel: Are the Fed's New Supervisory Tools Strong Enough in an Era of Financial Innovation and Shadow Banking? And How Will Other Federal Agencies Assist? Video
Anat Admati, Professor, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Michael Gibson, Director, Division of Banking Supervision & Regulation, The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Don Kohn, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution
Patrick Pinschmidt, Deputy Assistant Secretary and Executive Director, FSOC, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Moderated by: Paul Saltzman, President, The Clearing House Association

Closing Keynote Remarks: Reflections on Federal Financial Agencies Past and Future Roles in Financial Regulation - Structural Reforms for Controlling Systemic Risk Video
Paul Volcker, Chairman, The Volcker Alliance, former Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

2015 Special Lunch-time Talk: Who Should Control Monetary Policy? Politicians or the Central Bank? February 18, 2015
Don Brash, former governor of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand and member of the New Zealand Parliament



Co-sponsored by the Bendheim Center for Finance, the Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance, and the Woodrow Wilson School.
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By invitation only: Restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, fellows, and invited guests.

2014 Special Symposium Celebrating the Centennial of the Federal Reserve: The Federal Reserve and Monetary Policy: Traditional and New Tools, November 13, 2014
Co-sponsored by The George Washington University

Keynote Conversation
Paul Volcker, Chairman, The Volcker Alliance, former Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, with Alan Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs, Princeton University, former vice chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Video

Opening Talk: The Federal Reserve at 100: A Comparative View of the World's Central Banks
Harold James, Princeton University Video

Panel: The Role of Monetary Policy in Financial Stability Video
Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania
Frederic Mishkin, Columbia Business School
Moderated by Christopher Sims, Princeton University

Panel: Monetary Policy during the Crisis: What Worked and What Didn't? Video
R. Glenn Hubbard, Columbia Business School
Donald Kohn, Brookings Institution
James McAndrews, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Moderated by Nell Henderson, The Wall Street Journal

Panel: Monetary Policy after the Recovery: What is the New Normal? Video
Charles Plosser, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania
Neal Soss, Credit Suisse
Moderated by Binyamin Appelbaum, The New York Times

2014 Fall Symposium: Is the Financial Sector Too Big? October 24-25, 2014
Keynote address by Lord Mervyn King, former Governor of the Bank of England
By invitation only

Economic Outlook:
James Glassman, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Panel: What are the Effects of a Growing Financial Sector?
Tobias Adrian, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Darrell Duffie, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Barbara Novick, BlackRock
David Scharfstein, Harvard Business School

Keynote Closing Remarks:
Thomas Philippon, NYU Stern School of Business

2014 Special Dinner: The Shifts and the Shocks: What We've Learned—and Have Still to Learn—From the Financial Crisis, October 8, 2014
Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London
By invitation only

2014 Princeton Reunions Panel Discussion: Economic Policy Challenges, May 30, 2014

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N. Gregory Mankiw, Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and
Christopher Sims, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University.

2014 Undergraduate Student Research Forum, May 1, 2014

Student Speakers:


Nicola Babarcich '14, "Bayesian Estimation of a Small Open Economy New Keynesian DSGE Model: Exchange Rate Dynamics in the Case of the Republic of Turkey"
Kimberly Chen '14, "Risk-Based Insurance Tariff Analysis: Paired Economic Models for Navigating the Health Insurance Marketplace"
Joyce Lim '14, "The New York City Green Cart Program: An Impact Evaluation"
Jeffrey Schwartz '14, "Medicaid Managed Care: Higher Quality Care at Lower Cost? An Analysis of the Medi-Cal Population"
David Alexander Seyferth '14, "The Crisis Aftermath: Understanding Variability in Housing Recovery at the Metropolitan Level"

2014 Special Dinner: Global Liquidity and the Prospects for Emerging Economies in 2014, April 4, 2014
Dani Rodrik, Albert O. Hirschman Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, and
Hyun Song Shin, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics at Princeton University.
By invitation only

2014 Spring Symposium: Economic Policy Challenges in Obama's Second Term, February 7-8, 2014
Keynote address by Alan Krueger, Bendheim Professor of Economics & Public Policy at Princeton University and former chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers.
By invitation only

Economic Outlook:
Dean Maki, Barclays Capital

Panel: Political Economy of Fiscal Policy
William Gale, Brookings Institution
Kevin Hassett, American Enterprise Institute
Harvey Rosen, Princeton University
Julian Zelizer, Princeton University

Keynote Closing Remarks:
Norman Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute

2013 Fall Symposium: Prospects for Long-Term Growth in the U.S. Economy, October 11-12, 2013
Keynote conversation between Paul Krugman, professor of economics and international affairs at Princeton University and op-ed columnist for The New York Times, and Robert Gordon, Stanley G. Harris Professor of the Social Sciences at Northwestern University; moderated by Alan Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
By invitation only

Economic Outlook:
Mark Zandi, Moody's Analytics, Inc.

Panel: Structural Changes in the U.S. Economy
James Hamilton, University of California, San Diego
Frank Levy, MIT and Harvard Medical School
Neal Soss, Credit Suisse

Panel: Innovation and Economic Growth
Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School
Richard D'Aveni, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Michael McAlpine, Princeton University

2013 Special Dinner: The New Geography of American Prosperity, September 19, 2013
Meredith Whitney, CEO of Meredith Whitney Advisory Group, LLC.
By invitation only

2013 Undergraduate Student Research Forum, May 2, 2013
Co-sponsored by the Center for Health and Wellbeing

Student Speakers:

Maeve Drablos '13, "Easing Transition to Adulthood for Students with Disabilities: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Community-Based Instruction in New Jersey"
Samuel Dresner '13, "Symptoms of Hospital Congestion: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Hospital Competition on the Quality and Cost of Medical Care in California"
Ameer Elbuluk '13, "Hospital vs. Hospice: An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Care in End-of-Life Patients"
Shirley Lee '13, "Effects of Stimulant Treatment for ADHD on Long-term Academic Outcomes in Children"
Jio Park '13 , "Consolidation in the Health Care Industry: An Empirical Study of the Impact of Hospital Mergers on Quality of Care in California"

2013 Spring Symposium: The Future of the Chinese Economy, April 19-20, 2013
A keynote conversation between Governor Jon Huntsman, former ambassador to China and Singapore and former governor of Utah, and Stephen Roach, former chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, following dinner on Friday, April 19.
By invitation only

Economic Outlook:
Jan Hatzius, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Panel: China: Hard or Soft Landing?
Gregory Chow, Princeton University
Nicholas Lardy, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia Business School

Panel: China and the Rest of the World
Edward Dunne, Willowbridge Associates
Cheng Li, Brookings Institution
Burton Malkiel, Princeton University
Hyun Song Shin, Princeton University

2013 Special Dinner: After the Music Stopped: The Financial Crisis, the Response, and the Work Ahead, March 1, 2013
Alan S. Blinder, Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University, and Vice Chairman of the Promontory Interfinancial Network
By invitation only

2012 Fall Symposium: Health Care Spending and the Deficit, November 16-17, 2012
Keynote address by Robert D. Reischauer, president emeritus of the Urban Institute and former director of the Congressional Budget Office
By invitation only

Post-election Economic Policy Issues:
Alan S. Blinder, Princeton University

Panel: Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care
Joseph R. Antos, American Enterprise Institute
Mark V. Pauly, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Uwe E. Reinhardt, Princeton University

Panel: The Future of Medicare
Henry J. Aaron, Brookings Institution
Katherine Baicker, Harvard School of Public Health
Stuart M. Butler, The Heritage Foundation

2012 Special Dinner: The 2012 Elections: Issues and Answers, September 21, 2012
David R. Gergen, Director of the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard Kennedy School, and Senior Political Analyst for CNN
By invitation only

Dedication of the Benjamin H. Griswold III, Class of 1933, Center for Economic Policy Studies, May 18, 2012

Panel: The Griswold Center, Bringing Together Members of the Academic, Business, and Government Communities (panelists discussed lessons learned from the economic events of the last five years)
By invitation only
Anshu Jain, Deutsche Bank AG
N. Gregory Mankiw, Harvard University
Christopher A. Sims, Princeton University

2012 Undergraduate Student Research Forum, May 3, 2012

Student Speakers with Griswold Center Co-Director Hyun Song Shin:



Danielle D. Cohen-Shohet '12, "It's not Who You Know, but What You Know: The Performance and Strategies of Affiliated and Unaffiliated Firms amidst India's Institutional Transition"
Kameron R. Knab '12, "Health Insurance Reform and its Effect on Hospital Utilization for Young Adults"
Daniel J. Lewis '13, "Liquidity Assistance During the Financial Crisis of 2007-2010: Efficacy and Spillovers in Europe and the United States"
Samuel A. Roeca '12, "A Paradox of Internal Capital Markets: The Effect of Regional and Systematic Stress on Lending in Regionally Diversified US Banks"

2012 Spring Symposium: Reforming the U.S. Tax System, February 10-11, 2012
Keynote address, The Moment of Truth: Tough Issues Confronting America, by Alan K. Simpson, retired U.S. Senator from Wyoming (1979–1997)
By invitation only

Economic Outlook:
David Greenlaw, Morgan Stanley

Panel: In the Box Tax Reform
Leonard E. Burman, Syracuse University
James R. Hines, University of Michigan
Pamela F. Olson, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Panel: Out of the Box Tax Reform
Mihir A. Desai, Harvard Graduate School of Business
Ted Gayer, Brookings Institution
Harvey S. Rosen, Princeton University

2011 Fall Symposium: Currencies in Crisis?, November 18-19, 2011
Keynote address, The Second Wave of the Second Great Contraction, by
Kenneth S. Rogoff, Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University
By invitation only

Panel: Whither the Yuan?
Morris Goldstein, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Eswar S. Prasad, Cornell University and Brookings Institution
Min Zhu, International Monetary Fund

Economic Outlook:
James E. Glassman, JPMorgan Chase

Panel: Sovereign Debt and the Future of the Euro
Zanny Minton Beddoes, The Economist
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University
Peter Hooper III, Deutsche Bank Securities

2011 Panel Discussion: Europe at the Crossroads, October 24, 2011

Panelists:
Markus K. Brunnermeier, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Economics, Princeton University: European Debt Crisis slides
Paul R. Krugman, Professor of Economics and International Affairs Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Hyun Song Shin, Hughes-Rogers Professor of Economics, Princeton University: Europe at the Crossroads slides
Christopher A. Sims, Harold H. Helm '20 Professor of Economics and Banking, Princeton University: The future of the Euro slides

2011 Special Dinner: Economic and Fiscal Outlook, October 21, 2011
Peter R. Orszag, Vice Chairman of Global Banking, Citigroup, Inc.,
former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2009–2010), and
former Director of the Congressional Budget Office (2007–2008)
By invitation only

Economic Policy Speech by New Jersey Governor Christopher J. Christie, May 20, 2011
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Debrief with Joseph J. Seneca, Rutgers University

2011 Spring Symposium: Obamanomics: An Early Report Card, April 1-2, 2011
Keynote address, An External Perspective on the What and How of Policies, by Mohamed A. El-Erian, PIMCO
By invitation only

Economic Outlook:
Neal M. Soss, Credit Suisse

Panel: Evaluating Financial Reform
Jon S. Corzine, MF Global, Inc. and former Governor of New Jersey
Robert E. Diamond Jr., Barclays PLC
Hyun Song Shin, Princeton University

Panel: Rescuing Ourselves from the Rescue Operations
Alan B. Krueger, Princeton University and former Assistant Treasury Secretary for Economic Policy
Steven L. Rattner, former Counselor to the Secretary of the Treasury and Lead Auto Advisor
Phillip L. Swagel, University of Maryland and former former Assistant Treasury Secretary for Economic Policy

2010 Special Dinner: Reagan, Obama, Midterm Elections, and the Economy, November 19, 2010 James A. Baker, III, former Secretary of State (1989–1992)
By invitation only

2010 Fall Symposium: Fixing Economics: Lessons from the Crisis, September 24-25, 2010
Keynote address, Implications of the Financial Crisis for Economics , by Ben S. Bernanke,
Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and Chairman of the Federal Open Market Committee
By invitation only

Economic Outlook:
Ethan S. Harris, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Panel: Has the Efficient Markets Theory Been Damaged Beyond Repair?
Harrison Hong, Princeton University
Burton G. Malkiel, Princeton University
Jose A. Scheinkman, Princeton University

Panel: Credit Markets and Macroeconomics
Alan S. Blinder, Princeton University
Mark L. Gertler, New York University
Allan H. Meltzer, Carnegie Mellon University

2010 Special Dinner: Health Care Reform: What Happened and Why?, May 7, 2010
Douglas W. Elmendorf, Director of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

2010 Spring Symposium: A Slow Motion Train Wreck? Long-Term Prospects for the Federal Budget, April 9-10, 2010
Keynote address, Train Wreck Dead Ahead, by Joshua B. Bolten,
John L. Weinberg/Goldman Sachs & Co. Visiting Professor at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School,
former White House Chief of Staff (2006–2009) and
former Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2003–2006)

Economic Outlook:
Richard B. Berner, Morgan Stanley

Panel: Are We Heading for Higher Taxes?
Keith Hennessey, former Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council
Harvey S. Rosen, Princeton University
Joel B. Slemrod, University of Michigan

Panel: Controlling Expenditures
Charles P. Blahous III, Hudson Institute, former Deputy Director of President Bush's National Economic Council
David M. Cutler, Harvard University
Donald B. Marron Jr., Georgetown University, former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisers and former Acting Director of the Congressional Budget Office

2009 Fall Symposium: Never Again? Building a Stronger Financial System, November 13-14, 2009
Keynote address, More Lessons from the Crisis, by William C. Dudley, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Economic Outlook:
Mark Zandi, Moody's Economy.com

Panel: Remaking U.S. Bank Regulation
Randall S. Kroszner, University of Chicago
Jeremy C. Stein, Harvard University
Phillip L. Swagel, Georgetown University

Panel: Financial Reform Beyond U.S. Banks
Stephen Friedman, Stone Point Capital
Malcolm D. Knight, Deutsche Bank
Neal M. Soss, Credit Suisse

2009 Special Dinner: The View from the Crow's Nest (in Fog): Perspectives on the Financial Markets' Turmoil and Its Implications for One Long-Term Focused Investor, October 23, 2009
Andrew K. Golden, President of Princeton University Investment Company (PRINCO)

2009 Spring Symposium: Obama and the Economy: An Early Report Card, April 17-18, 2009
Keynote address by Paul R. Krugman, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, New York Times op-ed columnist, and Princeton professor of economics and international affairs

Economic Outlook:
James E. Glassman, JPMorgan Chase

Panel: Mitigating the Recession
William G. Gale, Brookings Institution
Douglas J. Holtz-Eakin, DHE Consulting
Alan B. Krueger, Princeton University

Panel: Reviving the Financial System
Burton G. Malkiel, Princeton University
Christopher J. Mayer, Columbia Business School
Hyun Shin, Princeton University

2009 Special Dinner: The Crash of 2008, March 5, 2009
George Soros, Chairman of Soros Fund Management, founder of The Open Society Institute, and author of The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008 and What It Means

2008 Special Dinner: The Financial Crisis and Election 2008, October 1, 2008
Norman J. Ornstein, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research

2008 Fall Symposium: 21st Century Financial Crises, September 12-13, 2008
Keynote address by Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA, 4th District), Chairman of the House Committee on Financial Services

Economic Outlook:
Laurence H. Meyer, Macroeconomic Advisers

Panel: The Crisis of 2007-08
Franklin Allen, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
William C. Dudley, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Panel: Policy Responses: Prevention, Cure, or Let It Be?
Alan S. Blinder, Princeton University
Vincent R. Reinhart, American Enterprise Institute
Paul A. Volcker, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, 1979-1987

2008 Spring Symposium: Tax Cuts: Retrospective and Prospective, April 25-26, 2008
Keynote address by Robert E. Rubin, Citigroup Inc. (former Secretary of the Treasury, 1995-99)

Economic Outlook: Recession, Recovery, and Tax Policy for the Short- and Longer-Run
Allen Sinai, Decision Economics

Panel: A 25 Year Retrospective on Tax Cuts
Leonard E. Burman, The Urban Institute
Kevin A. Hassett, The American Enterprise Institute

Panel: Should the Tax Cuts Be Extended?
Larry M. Bartels, Princeton University
Michael J. Graetz, Yale Law School

2008 Special Dinner: Central Bank Commitment, April 3, 2008
Frederic S. Mishkin, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Remarks: Central Bank Commitment and Communication

2007 Fall Symposium: Offshoring: Opportunity, Threat, or Both?, November 16-17, 2007
Keynote address, “The World Is STILL Flat,” by Thomas L. Friedman, The New York Times

Global Economic Outlook
Jan Hatzius, Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Panel: Big Deal or Business as Usual?
Martin N. Baily, The Brookings Institution
Alan S. Blinder, Princeton University
Gene M. Grossman, Princeton University

Panel: Offshoring in Practice: Reports from Ground Level
Margaret M. Cannella, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
Kevin Colangelo, Pangea3
Tom Weakland, Diamond Management & Technology Consultants

2007 Special Dinner: Are American CEOs Overpaid, and If So, What If Anything Should Be Done About It?
Judge Richard A. Posner, October 9, 2007
United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals and University of Chicago Law School

2007 Spring Symposium: Sarbanes-Oxley in Retrospect, May 11-12, 2007
Keynote address by William H. Donaldson, former Chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Panel: A Look Back: The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley
Cynthia A. Glassman, U.S. Department of Commerce
Steven N. Kaplan, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

Panel: A Look Forward: Possible Reforms
Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Burton G. Malkiel, Princeton University
Thomas A. Russo, Lehman Brothers

Summary: Senator Paul S. Sarbanes
Senator Paul S. Sarbanes

2007 Special Dinner: Psychology for Behavioral Finance
Daniel Kahneman, February 22, 2007
Princeton University's Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology and
winner of the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

2006 Special Dinner: The Post Greenspan Fed: Can There Be Too Much Transparency?
David M. Wessel, December 8, 2006
Deputy Washington Bureau Chief of the Wall Street Journal

2006 Fall Symposium: Healthcare: Prospects and Policy, November 17-18, 2006
Keynote address by Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, Harvard Business School, and author, Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results (HBS Press, May 2006).

Panel: Diagnosis: Why Does Healthcare Cost So Much?
Joseph P. Newhouse, Harvard Medical School
Jonathan S. Skinner, Dartmouth College

Panel: Prescription Drugs: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
Katherine Baicker, Council of Economic Advisers
Uwe E. Reinhardt, Princeton University

Panel: Toward Remedies
Henry J. Aaron, The Brookings Institution
Patricia M. Danzon, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

2006 Spring Symposium: Whither the Dollar?, March 3-4, 2006
Keynote address by Paul A. Volcker, former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.

Outlook for the Global Economy
Neal M. Soss, Credit Suisse First Boston

Panel: How Much Further Will the Dollar Fall? Does It Matter?
Michael Mussa, Institute for International Economics
David I. Folkerts-Landau, Deutsche Bank

Panel: Is There a U.S. Dollar Policy? Should There Be?
Peter B. Kenen, Princeton University
Jeffrey R. Shafer, Citigroup

2006 Special Dinner: Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke, February 24, 2006
Remarks: The Benefits of Price Stability

RealVideo and WM Video, WWS 75th Anniversary Public Lecture Series

2005 Special Dinner: Pandemic: What Should the Health and Economic Prescriptions Say?
The Honorable William H. Frist, November 18, 2005
Bill Frist, M.D., Senate Majority Leader (R-TN)

2005 Fall Symposium: Social Security in Perspective, September 23-24, 2005
Keynote address by Harvey S. Rosen, former Chair, President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers and Princeton University's John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy.

Panel: Is There a Crisis?
Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Congressional Budget Office
Alicia H. Munnell, Boston College

Panel: The Design of Private Accounts
Peter A. Diamond, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Kent Smetters, Wharton School of Business
Richard H. Thaler, University of Chicago

Panel: Where to Next?
Charles P. Blahous III, National Economic Council
Robert Greenstein, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Peter R. Orszag, The Brookings Institution

Index of Events