NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.
May 12, 2014
Sofitel Hotel
45 West 44th Street, New York NY 10036
(212) 354-8844
12:00pm Reception and Lunch
12:20pm James Poterba, MIT and NBER
Welcome
12:25pm Mark Duggan, Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania and NBER
"Declining U.S. Labor Force Participation: Is Disability Insurance the Cause?"
1:20pm Kathryn Dominguez, University of Michigan and NBER
"Understanding Global Capital Flows Since the Financial Crisis"
2:15pm Break
2:30pm Christopher Mayer, Columbia University and NBER
"What Have We Learned About Housing Markets Since the Crisis, and What Lies Ahead?"
3:25pm Open Discussion
3:45pm Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, Ford Motor Company & NBER Director
James Poterba, MIT and NBER
Corporate Support for NBER's Research and Educational Mission
4:00pm Adjourn
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES
NBER CORPORATE ASSOCIATES RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
Kathryn Dominguez is Professor of Public Policy and Economics at the University of Michigan and Research Associate at the NBER. Her research focuses on international finance and macroeconomics, with particular emphasis on the determinants of financial flows. She received her Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and spent ten years on the faculty of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University before moving to the University of Michigan. In addition to publishing academic research, she has also consulted for the Bank for International Settlements, the Federal Reserve System, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Bank on various topics.
Mark Duggan is the Rowan Family Foundation Professor and Chair of Business Economics and Public Policy and a Professor of Health Care Management at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a Research Associate at the NBER and the Faculty Director of the Penn Wharton Public Policy Initiative. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. His research focuses on health and labor economics. He was the 2010 recipient of the ASHEcon Medal, awarded every two years by the American Society of Health Economists to the U.S. economist under the age of 40 who has made the most significant contributions to the field of health economics. He served from 2009 to 2010 as the Senior Economist for Health Care Policy at the White House Council of Economic Advisers.
Christopher Mayer is the Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate and Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School. He is a Research Associate at the NBER, a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, and a principal at Longbridge Financial, a new and innovative company focused on delivering reverse mortgage products to senior homeowners in a responsible manner. His research explores a variety of topics in real estate and financial markets. Dr. Mayer received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT, and he previously served as Senior Vice Dean at Columbia Business School. He has testified frequently before both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
