Study Group Archive
Esko Aho: Rethinking Government: Not Bigger or Smaller but Smarter (Spring 2013); Reframing Government for the 21stCentury (Fall 2013 and Spring 2014)
Ajmal Ahmady: Afghanistan: What Happened & How to Engage the Taliban : Session 1: Economic Management in a Crisis Environment (October 13, 2021); Session 2: Internal Dynamics in Afghanistan (October 20, 2021); Session 3: External Interests Affecting Afghanistan (October 27, 2021); Session 4: Impact of a Taliban Regime on Women and Minorities (Tuesday, November 2, 2021)
Marlene Amstad: China’s Financial System – similarities and differences to the Western markets with guest speaker Darrell Duffie (Fall 2021); Trade Sentiment and the Stock Market: New Evidence Based on Big Data Textual Analysis of Chinese Media (Spring 2022)
Barbara Anthony: Beyond Obamacare: New Lessons from Massachusetts in a Federalist Tradition (Spring 2015)
Rabah Arezki: Rethinking the Oil Market in the Aftermath of the Price Slump (Spring 2018); A New Economy for the Middle East and North Africa (October 10, 2018); Rethinking the Macroeconomics of Resource Rich Countries (October 11, 2018); Global Reform Cycles (October 12, 2018)
Ole Gunnar Austvik: Europe and the Geopolitics of Energy (Fall 2015); Europe and the Geopolitics of Energy (Spring 2016)
Todd Baker: Escaping the High Cost Lending Trap—Exploring FinTech Alternatives to Borrowing for Low-Income Working Americans (Spring 2017); Lending--the Answer or the Problem for Low-Income Americans? (Fall 2016); Can Venture Capital and FinTech Improve the Lives of Low-Income Working Americans? (Fall 2017 and Spring 2018)
Ed Balls: Making Progressive Economic Policy in the 21st Century (Fall 2015); Making Progressive Economic Policy in the 21st Century (Spring 2017)
Richard Balzer: Exploring Leadership and Personal Impact (Fall 2013); Coaching: A Platform for Excellence (Spring 2014)
Jo Ann Barefoot: Regulation Innovation: Protecting Consumers Through Technology & Trust (Fall 2015); Regulation Innovation: Protecting Consumers Through Technology & Trust (Spring 2016); Regulation Innovation: Protecting Consumers Through Technology & Trust (Fall 2016); Regulation Innovation: Protecting Consumers Through Technology & Trust (Spring 2017)
Binta Niambi Brown: Private Solutions to Public Problems: The Changing Nature of Capitalism and the Role of Business in Creating Social Value (Spring 2015)
Edoardo Campanella: Study group: Reconceiving Capitalism in a Post-Pandemic World: Towards a New Global Order: Is a capitalist peace between China and the US possible? (November 10)
Camilla Cavendish: The Eleventh Hour: Will Brexit Be Reversed? (Spring 2018); The Challenges of an Ageing Society (Spring 2018); Living Better For Longer (Fall 2018 and Spring 2019)
George Chouliarakis: The Day after the Pandemic: Public Debt and Economic Recovery in Emerging Market and Low Income Countries (April 13, 2021); Sovereign Debt: Past, Present, and Future Risks (cohosted with M-RCBG Senior Fellow Megan Greene) Session #1: Overview of sovereign debt crisis; Session #2: Case study 1: The Greek debt crisis 2010-18; Session #3: Case study 2: The long Argentine crisis (Spring 2021); Sovereign Debt Crises in the 1980s: Lessons for Today, with Edwin Truman (February 23, 2022); The Return of Inflation (March 31, 2022)
Tim Christian: The Global Interface of Medicine, Business and Government (Fall 2011); The Global Interface of Medicine, Business, and Government (Spring 2013)
John DeVillars: Get Out in Front of the Mob and Call it a Parade: What Electric Utility Executives and Those Who Regulate Them Can Do To Accelerate Adoption of Clean Energy (Fall 2016); Get Out in Front of the Mob and Call it a Parade: What Electric Utility Executives and Those Who Regulate Them Can Do To Accelerate Adoption of Clean Energy (Spring 2017)
Mark Fagan and John Foote: Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (and Bikes): Current Issues in Transportation Policy (Fall 2012)
Ray Fisher: Policy Responses to the Global Financial Crisis (Spring 2016)
Justin Fox: Thinking about the Future (Spring 2014)
Connie Friesen: Chinese Banks, Alibaba and the High Stakes of Cross-Border Investments Between the United States and China with guest Martin Chorzempa (March 23, 2022)
Jeffrey Fuhrer: The Fed’s Monetary Policy Framework Evaluation in the wake of COVID-19: New Framework Elements, and ad hoc Fiscal-Monetary Coordination (Fall 2020); Inequality of Economic Opportunity (Spring 2021); The Broken Economy: The Role of Narratives (March 3, 2022)
Eoin Gahan: The Changing Landscape of Trade Agreements (Spring 2014 and Spring 2015)
Phillip C. Gildan: Anatomy of a Public-Private Partnership (P3) (Fall 2017 and Spring 2018)
Elizabeth Golberg: Better Regulation in the European Union: Boon or Boondoggle? (Fall 2017 and Spring 2018); Regulatory Cooperation – A Reality Check (Fall 2018 and Spring 2019)
Deborah Gordon: Attention Shoppers: Unleashing Consumer Power to Improve U.S. Health Care (Fall 2017); The Changing Role of Consumers in Health Care Purchasing: Medical Perspectives (October 15, 2018); Health Reform: Where We Need to Go and How Women Can Get Us There (November 9, 2018); Making Health Care Costs Predictable: Tackling price transparency (March 26, 2019); Health-Wealth: Is Healthcare Bankrupting America? (May 1, 2019)
Megan Greene: The Eurozone's Japanification: between recession, unfinished business and a changing of the guard; with guest, Carsten Brzeski (November 4, 2019); Help, my country is in trouble! Structural reforms, bailouts and sovereign debt crises; with guest George Papaconstantinou (November 13, 2019): Women in Finance (November 21, 2019): Fixing the Eurozone—Why Europe is Unstable and the Rest of the World Should Care; with guest Fabio Balboni (February 19, 2020); Inequality: How do we measure it, what is happening and why do we care? (March 5, 2020); It's still the economy, stupid: what can we expect from Trumponomics vs Bidenomics? (November 2, 2021); Who cares about GDP? (November 9, 2021); Dual Interest Rates: Monetary Rocket Fuel with guest speaker Eric Lonergan (November 17, 2020); Sovereign Debt: Past, Present, and Future Risks (cohosted with M-RCBG Senior Fellow Megan Greene) Session #1: Overview of sovereign debt crisis; Session #2: Case study 1: The Greek debt crisis 2010-18; Session #3: Case study 2: The long Argentine crisis (Spring 2021); Green Mortgages and the Net Zero Transformation ( December 1, 2021); Sovereign Debt Crises: current risks and potential solutions, with Lee Buchheit; cosponsored by Chatham House (March 2, 2022)
Michal Halperin: Network Effects of Digital Platforms and How Should We Regulate Them - A Case Study (March 1, 2022); Should We Block All Acquisitions by Google, Facebook and Microsoft? Lessons Learned from 400 Transactions in the Past Decade (March 22, 2022)
Regina Herzlinger and Rifat Atun: Fixing Obamacare (Fall 2014)
Sajid Javid: The Race for a Vaccine, with guest speaker Kate Bingham (September 29, 2020); The Economics of Biodiversity: a discussion of the findings of the landmark Dasgupta Review, with guest speaker Partha Dasgupta (March 19, 2021)
Jo Johnson: China's influence on UK universities: risk vs reward (March 11, 2021); Global Science Collaborations: Promise and Politics (April 22, 2022)
Steve Johnson: Speech and the Internet (April 11, 2019); Protecting Speech on the Internet: Regulating Communication in the Digital Age (April 30, 2019)
Lewis B. Kaden: Rebuilding the American Dream: The Markle Task Force on Jobs, Opportunity, and Economic Security (Spring 2015); America's Moment: Creating Opportunity in the Connected Age (Fall 2015)
Farrukh Khan: Sustainable Development Financing and Investment Options and Tools to Implement National Climate Actions Plans (Spring 2017)
Ranch Kimball: Marijuana Legalization: Economic and Regulatory Case Studies of 3 states (April 5, 2021); Service, not Subsidies: How Government can help create jobs (April 12, 2021)
Mark Kramer: Creating Shared Value: Concept and Applications ( Fall 2011)
Jean-Pierre Landau: Is there a risk of a new global financial crisis? (November 28, 2018); Cryptocurrencies--after the bubble (November 29, 2018); The Euro at 20; with guest speaker Adrien Abecassis (January 31, 2019); Central Banks and the Global Financial Safety Net (February 5, 2019); What is at Stake in the Next European Parliament Elections? With guest speaker Adrien Abecassis (February 6, 2019); The Digitalization of Money (September 16, 2019); What future for the International Monetary System? (September 18, 2019); Should Central Banks Take Some Responsibility in Fighting Climate Change? (December 5, 2019)
Philippe Le Corre: China’s Eurasian geoeconomic plan: how much does it extend the country’s political influence? (Fall 2017); Is China perceived as a leader? Case studies from Europe (October 18, 2018)
Dennis Lockhart: Renewing America’s infrastructure: a comprehensive examination of policy options and implications (Fall 2017)
Nick Lovegrove: The Call for Tri-Sector Leadership (Spring 2013)
Marshall Lux: The Unintended Consequences of Dodd-Frank: How Laws Get Arbitraged (Spring 2015)
Larry Makovich: Reframing climate policy approaches in the electric power sector; (Fall 2015); Reframing Climate Policy Approaches in the Electric Power Sector (Fall 2016); Reframing Climate Policy Approaches in the Electric Power Sector (Spring 2017)
Vikram Mansharamani: Blowing Bubbles: How Investors, Regulators, and the Press Reinforce Exuberance (Spring 2014)
Stanley Marcuss: Urban Revitalization (Fall 2015); Urban Revitalization (Spring 2016)
Aparna Mathur: Evaluating the pandemic safety net response, with guest Elaine Maag (November 16, 2021); Is the US Social Safety Net Delivering On Its Promise? Lessons from COVID-19 and Before (February 17, 2022)
Tim Massad: Dostoevsky v. Dimon: Crime and Punishment in the Financial Crisis (Spring 2018); Regulation of Bitcoin and Other Cryptoassets: What should we do? (October 11, 2018); A Crash Course on the Crash--The Key Things You Need to Know About the 2008 Global Financial Crisis (October 30, 2018); The Future of Money? Facebook's Libra and Central Bank Digital Currencies (November 19, 2019)
Patrick Okigbo: POWER TO THE PEOPLE: Can technology innovations deliver improved voting outcomes? (April 28, 2021)
Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile: ESG Challenges, Corporate Wrongs and Corporate Accountability: Debating Emerging Legal, Policy and Regulatory Frameworks (April 21, 2022)
Ioana Petrescu: Eating the Seed Corn: What Romanian private pensions can teach us about populism and lack of transparency (September 27, 2019); The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: What Do We Know So Far? with guest speaker Aparna Mathur (January 30, 2020); The Political Economy of Populism, with guest speaker Elias Papaioannou (October 26, 2020); The Political Economy of Climate Action: Does Democratic Maturity Explain the Environmental Policy Differences within the EU? with guest speaker Clara Volintiru (April 16, 2021); Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy? with guest speaker Ioannis Ioannou (November 29, 2021); Populism in Eastern Europe--New types of libertarian populism vs classic authoritarian populism: The Romanian case, with guest speaker Dan Sultanescu (April 18, 2022); Transnational Advocacy in the Digital Era, Think Global, Act Local, with Nina Hall (April 19, 2022)
Ndidi Nwuneli: Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa (Spring 2015)
Euvin Naidoo: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa (Fall 2017 and Spring 2018)
Scott Ratzan: Developing Multisectoral Action for Health and Social Impact – answering the call to action for the UN Sustainable Development Goals (Fall 2018 and Spring 2019)
Demian Reidel: Leaving Populism Behind: Lessons from Argentina 2015-19, with guest speaker Luciano Laspina, House of Representatives, Argentina (April 26, 2019)
Lisa A. Robinson: Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Real World: Assessing Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulations (Spring 2013); Benefit-Cost Analysis in the Real World: Tales from the Trenches (Spring 2014)
Omar Robles: U.S. Pharmaceutical Regulation: Understanding the Policy, Law and Economics: Session 1: The Past, Present and Future of Drug Development, with guest Veronica Miller, via Zoom (October 19, 2021); Session 2: Regulating Drug Exclusivity in the Marketplace, with guest Ryan O'Quinn, via Zoom (October 21, 2021); Session 3: Innovation, Competition, and "Pay-for-Delay" in Prescription Pharmaceuticals, with guest Bryan Gant, via Zoom (November 4, 2021)
Christof Ruehl: The Global Warming Potential Metric: Simple but Misleading, with guest speaker Robert Kleinberg (November 19, 2020); A View From Saudi Arabia: Guide to the Circular Carbon Economy, with guest speaker Adam Sieminski (November 30, 2020); Fig Leaf or Force for Good? IOCs and the energy transition, with Dev Sanyal, (February 3, 2021)
Eric Salama: Data Privacy - from the legal to the ethical? with guest speaker Jamie Bernard (October 29, 2020); Is regulation the best way to drive change in the relationship between big data companies and citizens? with guest speaker Tom Wheeler (February 12, 2021); UK Government Policy towards social media platforms and lessons for the US with guest speaker Oliver Dowden (April 20, 2021)
Peter Sands: Topics in International Financial Regulation and Policy (Fall 2015); Topics in International Financial Regulation and Policy (Spring 2016): Topics in International Financial Regulation and Policy (Fall 2016): The Neglected Dimension of Global Security: Financing Pandemic Preparedness and Response (Fall 2016); Topics in International Financial Regulation and Policy (Spring 2017)
Alexandra Schweitzer:
Perspectives on Social Determinants of Health, Session 1: SDOH and Primary Care (September 25, 2019); Session 2: Successful Housing and Health Integration: The Right Care, Right Place, Right Time (R3) Model (February 5, 2020); Alleviating the Social Drivers of Health During the COVID-19 Crisis: Lessons from Leading SDOH Partnerships (Webinar, June 17, 2020); Health care / community-based organization partnerships to address social drivers of health (March 4, 2020); How Value Chain Thinking Strengthens Programs to Address Social Determinants of Health (April 27, 2021); Closing the loop: Best practices for programs that address health-related social needs (November 15, 2021); How can listening to participants improve programs to address social needs? (April 18, 2022)
James Segel: Saving the Financial System and Regulatory Reform (Spring 2014)
Paul Sheard: Quantitative Easing - Explaining It and Dispelling the Myths (Fall 2018); Credit Rating Agencies: What They Do and How They Do It (January 30, 2019); Revisiting the Standard Macroeconomic Policy Framework: Should Monetary and Fiscal Policy Be More Closely Coordinated? (February 28, 2019); Brexit and the Future of the EU: An Analytical Perspective (April 4, 2019); The “Trump” vs “Obama” Economy: What the Data Tell Us (May 2, 2019); MMT (Modern Monetary Theory) – What Is It and Can It Help? (September 24, 2019); Bank of Japan: Pioneer of “Unconventional Monetary Policy” – and Still Trailblazing (October 30, 2019); The Fed and the 2008 Financial Crisis: What the FOMC Transcripts Reveal (November 8, 2019): Making Sense of Economic Policy Debates: Some Basic Concepts (February 12, 2020); Abenomics: Explaining It, Assessing It, and Telling the Untold Story (March 3, 2020)
Doug Shulman: Putting Public Policy into Action (Fall 2013)
Myriam Sidibe: Brands on a Mission - A New Contribution to Public Health (Fall 2018 and Spring 2019)
Chris Skidmore
The Path to COP27 and Delivering on Net Zero in 2022 -- A discussion on the recent webinar by Kwasi Kwarteng (April 5, 2022); Net Zero Strategies and delivering against popular opposition and unknowable events (April 6, 2022)
Christopher Smart: The Financial Education of the Eurozone (Fall 2016); The Looming Trans-Atlantic Battle: Regulating Data While Boosting Growth (Spring 2017); Financing the Industrial Internet (Fall 2017)
Wake Smith: Pathways to Solar Geoengineering Deployment, Session 1: A vision of the world on the threshold of solar geoengineering deployment (September 26, 2019); Session 2: Things to fear if we geoengineer (and things not to) (October 17, 2019); Why Geoengineering is Inevitable (February 6, 2020); The National Security Implications of the Emergence of Stratospheric Aerosol Injection Technologies from an American Perspective (April 9, 2021); Is Solar Geoengineering bound to be Unethical? (December 1, 2021)
Philippe Tordoir: The Potential Role of Natural Gas in Electricity Generation (April 2, 2020) The Path to Green Energy of a Major Utility with guest speaker Anne-Laure de Chammard (April 22, 2021)
Alan Trager: Public-Private Partnerships (Spring 2012)
Edwin (Ted) Truman: Lessons from Crisis Management, with guest speaker Timothy F. Geithner (April 7, 2021); The Return of the SDR: the future of the International Monetary Fund's Special Drawing Right (April 28, 2021); Future of the IMF's Special Drawing Right (September 21, 2021); Sovereign Debt Crises in the 1980s: Lessons for Today, with George Chouliarakis (February 23, 2022)
Paul Verdin: Back to Basics: The Strategic Imperative of Creating and Capturing Value (Spring 2015); Creating and Capturing Value for Non-Profits (Fall 2015); "Creating and Capturing Value" for Nonprofits (Spring 2016)
Antonio Weiss: Working For All?: A Clear-Eyed Discussion of the Role of Corporations in Our Economy, with Chief Justice Leo E. Strine Jr. and John Haigh (November 13, 2018); The Crisis in Puerto Rico (November 13, 2018)
Howard Wolk: Bigger, Better, Faster, Cheaper: An Overview of American Entrepreneurship (Fall 2013 and Fall 2014)
Simon Winter: Improving the food system in developing countries in a time of climate change (Fall 2015); Addressing Climate Risks in Developing Country Food Systems: Exploring Solutions (Spring 2016); Addressing complexity: smallholder farmers facing climate risks in sub-Saharan Africa (Fall 2016); Addressing complexity: smallholder farmers facing climate risks in sub-Saharan Africa (Spring 2017)
Longmei Zhang: Renminbi Internationalization and a Multi-Polar International Monetary System (April 7, 2022)