Agenda

8:00am – 9:00am: Arrive at Columbia University

9:00am – 9:15am: Welcome Remarks

• Christopher Mayer, Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate Co-Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University

 

9:15am – 10:15am: Breakfast Speaker: Energy and the US Economy

• Jason Bordoff, Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs. Director, Center on Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

 

10:15am – 10:30am: Break (Coffee/tea available in room 329)

 

10:30am – 12:45pm: Growth in the US: A Macro and Global Perspective - Including a Case Study

• Pierre Yared, Associate Professor of Business, Columbia Business School

 

12:45pm – 1:00pm: Break 

 

1:00pm – 2:15pm: Lunch/Speaker: “The Future: Jobless Growth”

• Andrew Stern, Ronald O. Perelman Senior Fellow, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy at Columbia University.

 

2:15pm – 2:45pm: Break

 

2:45pm – 4:15pm: Economic Growth: Institutional Foundations - Companies, Governance and Markets

• Wei Jiang, Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive Enterprise; Chair, Finance Subdivision, Columbia Business School

 4:15pm – 4:30pm: Break

 

4:30pm – 6:00pm Economic Growth: Institutional Foundations - Financial Institutions after the Financial Crisis

• Jeffrey Gordon, Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law; Co-Director, Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy at Columbia University

 

6:15pm – 7:00 pm Cocktail Reception – Faculty Room, Low Library

 

7:00pm – 8:30 pm Dinner Discussion: “Does America really need homeownership?”

• Moderator: Professor Chris Mayer

8:30am – 8:45am Arrive at Columbia University & Breakfast (Room 329)

 

8:45am – 9:30am Breakfast Speaker: Tax Reform and Growth

• Glenn Hubbard, Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School.

 

9:30am – 9:45am Break

 

9:45am – 10:45am Taxation and Inequality

• Wojciech Kopczuk, Professor of Economics and of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University.

 

10:45am – 11:00 am Break

 

11:00am–12:15pm Tax Policies and Economic Growth

• Michael Graetz, Professor of Tax Law, Wilbur H. Friedman, Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law, Columbia Law School 

 

12:15pm NewDEAL Program Time