The Slowdown in Medicare Spending Growth: What Does it Mean?
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01/19 Lunch: Chapin D. White, senior health researcher at the Center for Studying Health System Change (HSC)
11/17 Lunch: Professor David M. Driesen, Syracuse University College of Law
Financial and Climate Regulation: Macro or Micro?
For many years now, experts have addressed both financial and environmental regulation through a microeconomic lens. Under this approach, regulation is viewed as an analogue to a market transaction and its efficiency evaluated primarily through a cost-benefit analysis predicated on standard neoclassical assumptions. Read the rest of this entry »
10/20 Lunch: Joseph Farrell, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley and Director, Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission
“FTC Protecting Competition and Consumers: Economics of Loyalty Pricing and Debt Collection”
UPDATE: Slides from the talk may be downloaded here: SGE Farrell slides October 2011
09/15 Lunch: Phillip Swagel of the University of Maryland
Housing Finance Reform: Moving Forward
A background paper is available at:
http://www.milkeninstitute.org/pdf/HousingFinanceReform.pdf
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7/21 Lunch: Donald Marron, Director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Spending in the Tax Code
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6/16 Lunch: Wendy Edelberg, Former Executive Director of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission
Wendy Edelberg will talk about the final report of the Financial Inquiry Commission which released its report in January 2011.
UPDATE: Slides from the talk may be downloaded here: Edelberg_SGEpresentation.pdf
June 22, 2011 Seminar: Budget Priorities for the New Congress
Panel:
Dr. James R. Horney, Vice President for Federal Fiscal Policy,
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
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5/19 Lunch: Bruce Bolnick, Chief Economist, International Group, Nathan Associates
Programming for Growth: The Economic Impact of Foreign Aid
Does foreign aid deliver value for money in promoting economic growth and improving well being for people in developing countries?
This question is a source of endless debate. In this presentation, Dr. Bolnick will first discuss the importance of growth for poverty reduction and human welfare in low-income countries—itself a source of controversy—and quickly review the (indecisive) empirical literature on aid and growth. The talk will then focus on the impact and effectiveness of USAID’s economic growth (EG) programs, based on a recent review of the available evidence.
The presentation is adapted from a series of Briefing Notes on Programming for Growth, which Nathan Associates produced for the Economic Growth Office at USAID last year, led by Dr. Bolnick. The Briefing Notes were designed as a contribution to the recurrent discussions about aid effectiveness and development priorities for the foreign aid program. The full series can be accessed at: http://www.countrycompass.com/policy_briefs.php
UPDATE: Slides from the talk may be downloaded here: Bolnick-SGE-NEC Presentation May 2011
SGE invitation: Consumer Expenditure Survey workshop
Update: registration now open.
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