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State and Local Pensions Conference |
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Jeffrey Brown and
Robert Clark, Organizers |
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August 19 and 20, 2010 |
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Grand Teton Lodge Company Wrangler/Prospector/Homesteader
Room Highway 89 Moran, |
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Program |
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Wednesday, August 18:
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Thursday, August 19: |
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8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:30 am |
Henning Bohn, UC, Should Public Retirement Plans be Fully Funded? |
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Discussant: Kent Smetters, University of Pennsylvania
and NBER |
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9:30 am |
Jean-Pierre Aubry, Alicia Munnell, and Laura Quinby, Public Pension Funding Standards in Practice |
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Discussant: Kil Huh, Pew Center on the States |
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10:30 am |
Break |
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11:00 am |
Sylvester Schieber, Towers Watson Political Economy of Public Sector Retirement
Plans |
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Discussant: James Poterba, MIT and NBER |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch (Trappers Room) |
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1:00 pm |
Robert
Novy-Marx, University of Chicago and NBER Joshua
Rauh, Northwestern University and NBER Policy Options for State Pensions Systems
and Their Impact on Plan Liabilities |
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Discussant: Andrew Biggs, American Enterprise Institute |
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2:00 pm |
George Pennacchi and Mahdi Rastad,
Portfolio Allocation for Public Pension
Funds |
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Discussant: Stephen Zeldes, Columbia University and
NBER |
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3:00 pm |
Break |
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3:30 pm |
Eduard Ponds, Netspar Clara Severinson and Juan Yermo, OECD Funding in Public Sector Pension Plans International
Evidence |
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Discussant: Michael Orszag, Towers Watson |
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4:30 pm |
General
Discussion |
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5:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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Participants Meet in Lower Lobby |
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Bus departs Jackson
Lake Lodge for Robert Clarks
home |
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Group Dinner at the home of Robert Clark |
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9:00 pm |
Bus departs Robert
Clarks home for Jackson Lake Lodge |
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Friday, August 20: |
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8:00 am |
Continental Breakfast |
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8:30 am |
Leora Friedberg, |
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Discussant: Ronald Ehrenberg, Cornell University and
NBER |
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9:30 am |
James Choi, Yale University and
NBER David Laibson and Brigitte
Madrian, Harvard University and NBER John Beshears, Defined Contribution Savings Plans in the Public
Sector: Lessons from Behavioral
Economics |
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Discussant: John Karl Scholz, University of Wisconsin
and NBER |
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10:30 am |
Break |
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11:00 am |
Robert Clark and Melinda Morrill, Retiree Health Plans in the Public Sector |
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Discussant: Joseph Newhouse, |
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12:00 pm |
Lunch and Discussion (Osprey Room) |
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1:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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Format: The meeting format for each paper will be a
25-minute presentation by the author, followed by one 15-minute discussion
and then another 20 minutes of general audience discussion. =========================================================== |
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8/9/10 |
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