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NBER Corporate Associates
Research Symposium |
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Wednesday, May 23, 2018 |
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Sofitel Hotel |
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12:00 pm |
Luncheon |
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12:30 pm |
Christina Romer, University of California, Berkeley & NBER |
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“Macroeconomic Policy and the
Aftermath of Financial Crises” |
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1:30 pm |
Break |
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1:40 pm |
Avi Goldfarb, University of Toronto
& NBER |
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“Economics of the Coming
AI Revolution” |
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2:20 pm |
William Kerr, Harvard
University & NBER |
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“Global Talent and the US
Economy” |
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3:00 pm |
Break |
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3:10 pm |
Thomas Philippon, New York University & NBER |
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“The Recent Investment
Drought: Disentangling Technology Buybacks and Industry Concentration” |
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3:50 pm |
Concluding Remarks: |
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4:00 pm |
Adjourn |
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CHRISTINA
ROMER is the Class of 1957 – Garff B.
Wilson Professor of Economics at the University of California, Berkeley. She chaired the Council of Economic Advisers
during the first term of President Obama’s administration, from January 2009
until September 2010, and played a central role in designing the 2009
stimulus package. Her research has
focused on the causes of the Great
Depression and on the effects of monetary and fiscal policy. She is the co-director of the NBER Monetary
Economics Program, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and
a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow. |
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Avi
Goldfarb is the Ellison Professor of
Marketing at the Rotman School of Management,
University of Toronto. His research focuses on understanding the
opportunities and challenges of the digital economy. He is an NBER Research Associate and the
Chief Data Scientist of the Creative Destruction Lab. He co-organized a September 2017 NBER-CDL
meeting on the economic implications of artificial intelligence. |
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WILLIAM KERR is the Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff
- MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business
School and the co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative. He is an NBER Research Associate, and has
recently co-directed NBER’s project on the Economic Consequences of
High-Skill Immigration. Kerr has been honored
with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in
Entrepreneurship, and has received Harvard's Distinction in Teaching award. |
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THOMAS PHILIPPON is a Professor of Finance at the Stern
School of Business at New York University and an NBER Research
Associate. His research focuses on
macroeconomics and monetary economics.
He has been a member of the Monetary Policy Advisory Panel at the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York since 2015, and he serves as the Scientific Committee Director at the French
Prudential Supervisory Authority. In
2014, he received the Bernácer Prize in 2014 for
promoting economic research in Europe |
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