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

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



Panels:
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

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

A 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).



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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

2005 Spring Symposium: The Future of the Federal Reserve, April 1-2, 2005
A dialogue with Timothy F. Geithner, President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York.



Panels:
Should the Fed Adopt Inflation Targeting?
Donald L. Kohn, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Anthony M. Santomero, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Lars E.O. Svensson, Princeton University

How Should the Fed Communicate?
Alan S. Blinder, Princeton University
J. Alfred Broaddus Jr., former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
William Poole, President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

How Should the Fed Deal with Asset-Market Bubbles?
Stephen G. Cecchetti, Brandeis University (former Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of New York)
Edward M. Gramlich, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Burton G. Malkiel, Princeton University

2005 Special Dinner: Eliot Spitzer, February 17, 2005
Eliot Spitzer (pdf file), New York State Attorney General

2004 Fall Symposium: Understanding the Chinese Economic Miracle, November 12-13, 2004
Keynote address by Nicholas D. Kristof (pdf file), prize-winning journalist and columnist for the New York Times.



Panels:
How Did China Do It?
Gregory C. Chow, Princeton University
J. Stapleton Roy '56, Managing Director, Kissinger Associates, Inc. (former Ambassador to China)

What’s Next on the Reform Agenda?
Nicholas R. Lardy, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
William R. Rhodes, Senior Vice Chairman, Citigroup, Inc. and Chairman, Citibank NA

China and the World: Exchange Rates and Trade
Morris Goldstein, Senior Fellow, Institute for International Economics
Patrick A. Mulloy, U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission

2004 Special Dinner: Economic Issues of the Upcoming Presidential Election, October 8, 2004
Al Hunt (pdf file), executive Washington editor of the Wall Street Journal, discussed the economic issues of the upcoming presidential election. Hunt’s column, Politics & People, appears weekly in the Wall Street Journal, and he has been a panelist on CNN’s The Capital Gang since 1988.

The Economic Policy of the Bush Administration March 26-27, 2004. Paul Krugman, Princeton University Professor of Economics and International Affairs and New York Times columnist, delivered the keynote address. The next day, panelists discussed the economic outlook, and health care and tax policies. Speakers at the conference included: Stuart Butler of The Heritage Foundation, David Cutler of Harvard University, Robert Dederick of RGD Economics, Kevin Hassett of American Enterprise Institute, Harvey Rosen of Council of Economic Advisers, Joel Slemrod of The University of Michigan,and Gail Wilensky of Project HOPE.

John S. Reed, interim Chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange and former Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup, spoke at a special CEPS dinner on February 6, 2004.

The Honorable Paul S. Sarbanes (D-MD), co-author of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 which instituted a broad set of reforms regarding the governance of publicly-held corporations, spoke at a special CEPS dinner on November 14, 2003.

Troubled Industries: What Role for Government?, October 17-18, 2003. Lawrence Lindsey, President and CEO of the Lindsey Group, and former Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council at the White House, delivered the keynote address. The next day, panelists discussed the economic outlook, and the telecommunications, airlines, and steel industries. Speakers at the conference included: Meredith Broadbent of the Office of the US Trade Representative, William Dudley of Goldman Sachs, Gerald Faulhaber of The University of Pennsylvania, Gary Hufbauer of The Institute of International Economics, Reed Hundt of McKinsey & Company, Frank Lorenzo of Savoy Capital, Rodney Slater of Patton Boggs LLP, Terrence Straub of United States Steel Corporation, Robert Willig of Princeton University, and Clifford Winston of The Brookings Institution.

International Economic Policy: 2003, March 28-29, 2003. The Honorable Robert E. Rubin, Director, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Citigroup Inc., and former of Secretary of the Treasury, delivered the public keynote address. Marina v.N. Whitman of the University of Michigan, and Alan S. Blinder of Princeton led a discussion of issues raised in Mr. Rubin’s lecture. The next day, panelists discussed the economic outlook, trade policy in the Bush administration, the dollar and the current account, and whether or not it is time for new foundations in international architecture. Other speakers at the conference included: John Lipsky of JP Morgan Chase & Co., Lawrence Mishel of Economic Policy Institute, Robert Hormats of Goldman Sachs, Karen Johnson of the Federal Reserve Board, Arun Motianey of Citigroup Inc., Allan Meltzer of Carnegie Mellon University, Jeffrey Shafer of Salomon Smith Barney, and Gene Grossman of Princeton University.

Land Mines in Finance, October 18-19, 2002. John C. Bogle, Founder of The Vanguard Group, delivered the keynote address. The next day, panelists discussed the economic outlook, the credibility of accounting statements, alternative investments, and whether or not the stock market is overvalued. Other speakers at the conference included: Neal Soss of Credit Swisse First Boston Corporation, Robert Litan of The Brookings Institution, Andrew Golden of Princeton University Investment Company, John L. Steffens of Spring Mountain Capital, L.P., Jeremy Stein of Harvard University, Robert Shiller of Yale University, and Uwe Reinhardt and Burt Malkiel of Princeton University.

Energy Policy, May 3-4, 2002. Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute gave the keynote address. The next day, panelists discussed the outlook on energy prices, the future of the automobile, the future of power supply, and health and the environment. Other speakers at the conference included: Daniel Yergin of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Robert Crandall of The Brookings Institution, Kenneth Hass of the Ford Motor Company, Howard Gruenspecht of Resources for the Future, United States Congressman Rush Holt, Michael Greenstone of the University of Chicago, Randall Kroszner of the Council of Economic Advisers, Richard Schmalensee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Robert Williams and Robert Willig of Princeton University.

The Impact of September 11th on U.S. Economic Policy, November 9-10, 2001. Experts shared their views on the economic outlook, fiscal policy and energy policy in light of the tragic events of September 11th. The Honorable Bill Frist (R-TN) delivered the keynote address. Other speakers included: Allen Sinai of Decision Economics, Inc., Joel Slemrod of the University of Michigan, Joseph Fichera of Saber Partners, Paul Joskow of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Paul Krugman of Princeton University.

The Stock Market and the New Economy, May 11-12, 2001. Nobel laureate Myron Scholes of Oak Hill Capital Management and Stanford University delivered the keynote address. The next day, panelists discussed the economic outlook, the revolution in personal finance, investing in the age of the Internet, and the Fed and the stock market. Speakers at the conference included: Terry Odean of the University of California at Davis, Eduardo Schwartz of the University of California at Los Angeles, John Lipsky of Chase Manhattan Bank, and Ben Bernanke, Alan Blinker and Burton Malkiel of Princeton University.

Tax Reform, October 13-14, 2000. Martin Feldstein of Harvard University delivered the keynote address. The next day, panelists discussed current tax proposals, the estate tax, and the politics of tax reform. Other speakers at the conference included: Robert Dederick of RGD Economics, Hank Gutman of KPGM Peat Marwick, William Gale and Thomas Mann of The Brookings Institution, R.Glenn Hubbard of Columbia Business School, Kevin Hassett of the American Enterprise Institute, Ronald Pearlman of the Georgetown University Law Center, and David Bradford and Harvey Rosen of Princeton University.

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