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For immediate release: Sept. 18, 2001

Contact: Natalie Lennon, (609) 258-3601
 

Media advisory:

Panel discussion on economic impact of terrorist attacks

Who: Top scholars in economics including Ben Bernanke, Alan Blinder, Peter Kenen, Paul Krugman and José Scheinkman

What: A panel discussion on "The Economic and Financial Aftermath of the Terrorist Attack on America"

When: Thursday, Sept. 20, 2001 from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Where: McCosh 50 at the Princeton University campus
 

Ben Bernanke is the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Economics and Public Affairs and the chairman of the Department of Economics. He is the director of the monetary economics program of the National Bureau of Economics Research and editor of the American Economic Review.

Alan Blinder served as vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board from June 1994 until January 1996. Before that, Blinder served as a member of former President Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers. Blinder founded the Center for Economic Policy Studies, which supports economic policy research at Princeton. He is the Gordon Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics.

Peter Kenen has been a consultant to the Council of Economic Advisers, the Office of Management and Budget, the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury. He taught at Columbia University from 1957 to 1971, where he served as chairman of the department of economics and as provost. He is the Walker Professor of Economics and International Finance.

Paul Krugman is nationally known for his twice-weekly columns in The New York Times and his monthly columns in Fortune Magazine and Slate. He has served on the U.S. Council of Economic Advisers. In 1991 he received the John Bates Clark Medal, an award given every two years by the American Economic Association to an economist under 40. Krugman is professor of economics and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

José Scheinkman is the Theodore Wells '29 Professor of Economics. Before coming to Princeton, he was the chairman of the economics department at the University of Chicago. He was also vice president of the financial strategies group at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 1987 and 1988.

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