John Shoven , George Shultz and David Crane discuss the Ravitch
Report (Shultz and Crane worked on the report) and the state of
California's fiscal health.
Boston School-Assignments: Listen to the Nobel committee. This Op/Ed on how ethical considerations are taken into account in economic decisions mentions the work of Nobel Prize winner in Economics Alvin Roth. Boston Globe, October 18, 2012.
Is 'uncertainty' really that big a deal? Discusses research and index for measuring economic policy uncertainty created by Nick Bloom, SIEPR senior fellow. Financial Times, October 22, 2012.
Public Policy Student of the Month - Rebecca Sachs
Rebecca is a senior majoring in Public Policy and Economics, with an interest in health and labor policy. She's currently writing an honors thesis analyzing the impact of health care reform on job-lock using data surrounding Massachusetts' 2006 reform. This past summer, Rebecca had the opportunity to see the interaction between policy and economics firsthand as an intern at the White House Council of Economic Advisors in Washington. This built off of her experience working at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Office of Management and Budget as part of the Stanford in Washington program. She has further pursued her interests by spending a summer studying at the London School of Economics and serving as a research assistant for Professor John Pencavel on a project looking at union decline. Classes like Public Policy 154: Politics and Policy in California and Public Policy 104: Economic Policy Analysis helped Rebecca discover her interest in the quantitative evaluation of policy. After graduating, she hopes to pursue a PhD in Economics.
At the 30th Anniversary celebration of SIEPR, Alan Auerbach, Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law at UC Berkeley and Michael Boskin, Tully M. Friedman Professor of Economics and Senior Fellow at both the Hoover Institution and SIEPR spoke to the SIEPR Associates about The Economy and the Election.
Stanford Report captures essence of talk by Auerback and Boskin.
Slide presentations by Alan Auerbach and Michael Boskin