CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL ECONOMIC ISSUES 2019

CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL ECONOMIC ISSUES 2019

by | Oct 31, 2019 | Conferences, Events


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UC Berkeley’s Clausen Center for International Business and Policy will hold its 3rd biennial Conference on Global Economic Issues on Saturday, November 16, 2019.

As in previous years, this invitation-only event will host prominent economists, policymakers, and industry participants. Some of our confirmed participants include Mary Daly, President, SF Federal Reserve; Calvin Ho, Senior Vice President and Director of Research for Templeton Global Macro; Jed Kolko, Chief Economist at Indeed; and Emi Nakamura, Andres Rodriguez-Clare, and Maurice Obstfeld all from University of California, Berkeley.

This year we welcome Dr. Gita Gopinath, IMF Economic Counsellor and Director of Research to give the keynote address.

We hope you can join us for what promises to be a lively and stimulating event.

>> Click here to view Clausen Conference 2019 Participant List

Program

9:00am-9:30am Registration & Breakfast
9:30am-9:45am Opening Remarks
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Director, Clausen Center, University of California, Berkeley
Kim Voss, Acting Dean, Division of Social Sciences, University of California, Berkeley
9:45am-11:00am Session 1 – Rising Challenges for Emerging Markets
Chair: Carlos Carvalho, Former Deputy Governor, Economic Policy, Central Bank of Brazil
Panelists:
Alan Taylor, Professor, University of California, Davis
Veronica Rappoport, Vice President, Central Bank of Argentina
Calvin Ho, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Templeton Global Macro
>> Click here for Session 1 Slides
11:00am-11:15am Break
11:15am-12:30pm Session 2 – China 
Chair: Galina Hale, Research Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Panelists:
Chang-Tai Hsieh, Professor, University of Chicago
Maurice Obstfeld, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Jeff Shen, Managing Director, BlackRock
>> Click here for Session 2 Slides
12:30pm-2:00pm Lunch
2:00pm-3:15pm Session 3 – Macro Implications of Structural Change in the Labor Market
Chair: Andres Rodriguez-Clare, University of California, Berkeley
Panelists:
Emi Nakamura, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Mary Daly, President, Federal Reserve Bank, San Francisco
Jed Kolko, Chief Economist, Indeed
>> Click here for Session 3 Slides
3:15pm-3:45pm Break
3:45pm-4:45pm Egon & Joan von Kaschnitz Lecture
Keynote: Gita Gopinath, Economic Counsellor and Director of Research, International Monetary Fund
“A Case for an Intergrated Policy Framework“
4:45pm-5:00pm Closing remarks
5:00pm-6:00pm Reception

Venue

All sessions and conference reception will be held at:

David Brower Center
2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, CA 94704

 

 

 

Parking and Transportation

Parking
Parking Passes for participants can be reserved in advance. Contact econevents@berkeley.edu to request a permit.

Visitor Parking Map

Transportation
For additional transportation options, please visit Bart.gov or 511.org

Accommodation

Hyatt Regency, 5 Embarcadero Center, San Francisco

Accommodation will be provided for out-of-town attendees. Please indicate if lodging is desired when completing your registration form and a reservation will be made on your behalf. We strongly recommend that attendees register by October 16, 2019.

Hotel confirmations will be sent out by November 1, 2019.

For guests staying at the SF Hyatt, transportation to and from conference venue will be provided.

NOTE: Berkeley lodging also available upon request.

 

 

 

Contact

For questions or comments please contact:

Clausen Event Staff, econevent@berkeley.edu
Event Planner

Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, pog@berkeley.edu
Director, Clausen Center for International Business and Policy

The New Yorker Profile on Gabriel Zucman and Wealth Inequality Research

The New Yorker Profile on Gabriel Zucman and Wealth Inequality Research

by | Oct 23, 2019 | News

The New Yorker’s Political Scene section has recently featured Professor Gabriel Zucman and his research into wealth inequality and tax havens, with an emphasis on how Prof. Zucman’s research is currently shaping Democratic Primary candidates’ policy proposals. Gabriel Zucman and his colleagues are advocating a progressive wealth tax as a solution to global inequality, one that rethinks both evasion and the goals of taxation. Author Benjamin Wallace-Wells takes a deep dive into Prof. Zucman’s work through interviews on the UC Berkeley Campus and a review of his visionary perspectives on global economics and current economic discourse.

 

Read the full article here.

Illustration by Claire Merchlinsky for The New Yorker; Source Photograph by Bruno Arbesu / REA / Redux

New Book by Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez: The Triumph of Injustice, How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

New Book by Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez: The Triumph of Injustice, How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay

by | Oct 23, 2019 | News

The Clausen Center is proud to share this new title by UC Berkeley’s own Gabriel Zucman and Emmanuel Saez: The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay.

The Triumph of Injustice presents a forensic investigation into the dramatic transformation of wealth inequality in the United States and explains how America turned away from the most progressive tax system in history to embrace policies that only serve to compound the wealth of a few. The Triumph of Justice proposes a visionary, democratic, and practical reinvention of taxes, outlining reforms that can allow tax justice to triumph in today’s globalized world and democracy to prevail over concentrated wealth.

Emmanuel Saez is professor of economics and director of the Center for Equitable Growth at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on tax policy and inequality from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. With Thomas Piketty, he has constructed long-run historical series of income inequality in the United States that have been widely discussed in public debate. He received his PhD in economics from MIT in 1999. He was awarded the John Bates Clark Medal of the American Economic Association in 2009 and a MacArthur Fellowship in 2010.

Gabriel Zucman is professor of economics and public policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He was awarded the Bernácer Prize in 2018 and a Sloan Research Fellowship in 2019. His research analyzes the accumulation and distribution of wealth through global and historical perspectives. He is also the author of The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens, which has been translated into eighteen languages.