Program
Sunday, March 6
PRE-CONFERENCE EVENTS
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM Welcome Reception presented by AUBER
Capital Hilton
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM Small Group Dinners
Area restaurants
Monday, March 7
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
Ballroom Foyer
8:00 AM – 10:10 AM Opening General Sessions
Presidential Ballroom
8:00 AM Welcome
Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly*, 2015-2016 NABE President, Director of Research, Global Asset Allocation, Fidelity Investments
8:00 AM – 8:40 AM Keynote Address
Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director and COO, World Bank
Presiding: Emily Kolinski Morris#, Chief Economist, Ford Motor Company
8:40 AM - 9:15 AM A View from the CBO
Keith Hall, Director, Congressional Budget Office
Presiding: Frank Nothaft*, Chief Economist, CoreLogic
9:15 AM - 10:10 AM Fiscal Policy Perspectives
Kevin A. Hassett, State Farm James Q. Wilson Chair in American Politics and Culture and Director of Economic Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute
Peter Orszag, Former Director, US Office of Management and Budget
Moderator: Michael A. Peterson, President and CEO, Peter G. Peterson Foundation
10:10 AM - 10:30 AM Networking Break / NABE Poster Session
Ballroom Foyer
10:30 AM - 11:20 AM Missing Market Makers: Has Regulation Impaired Financial Market Liquidity?
Presidential Ballroom
Andreas Lehnert, Deputy Director, Office of Financial Stability Policy and Research, Federal Reserve Board
Sandra O’Connor, Chief Regulatory Affairs Officer, JP Morgan Chase & Co.
Moderator: Julia Coronado, Chief Economist, Graham Capital
11:25 AM - 12:25 PM Concurrent Sessions
A. State of the States (and Cities) presented by AUBER
Federal A
Ross DeVol, Chief Research Officer, Milken Institute
Jim Diffley*, Senior Director, IHS Global Insight
George Hammond, Economic and Business Research Center Director and Research Professor, University of Arizona
Moderator: Sean Snaith, Director, Institute for Economic Competitiveness, University of Central Florida
B. Policies to Enhance Industrial Global Competitiveness
Federal B
Robert Atkinson, President, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
Chad Moutray#, Chief Economist, National Association of Manufacturers
Sree Ramaswamy, Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute
Moderator: David Teolis, Senior Manager, Economic and Industry Forecasting - International, General Motors Company
C. The Outlook for Energy: Implications for Policy and the Economy
South American A&B
Karen Alderman Harbert, President and Chief Executive Officer, U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Institute for 21st Century Energy
Michelle Patron, former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director, National Security Council
Adam Sieminski, Administrator, U.S. Energy Information Administration
Moderator: Kevin Swift#, Chief Economist, American Chemistry Council
12:30 PM - 1:55 PM Paul A. Volcker Award Luncheon and Lecture
Presidential Ballroom
Stanley Fischer, Vice Chairman, U.S. Federal Reserve System
Presiding: Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly*, 2015-2016 NABE President, Director of Research, Global Asset Allocation, Fidelity Investments
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM Concurrent Sessions
A. Crunch Time For China: Can Reforms Save it From Crisis?
Federal A
Arthur Kroeber, Managing Director and Head of Research, GaveKal Dragonomics; Senior Fellow, Brookings-Tsinghua Center
Derek Scissors, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Moderator: Michael McDonough, Chief Economist, Bloomberg Intelligence
B. Medicaid, Pensions and the Outlook for State Finances Presented by AUBER and NABE
Federal B
Scott Pattison, CEO, National Governors Association
Dan White, Senior Economist, Moody's Analytics
Moderator: Marisa DiNatale, Senior Director, Moody's Analytics
C. Policy Options to Address Slow Income Growth and Improve Income Mobility
South American A&B
Jared Bernstein, Senior Fellow, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Scott Winship, Fellow, Manhattan Institute
Moderator: Ellen Zentner, Chief U.S. Economist, Morgan Stanley
3:00 PM - 3:20 PM Networking Break / NABE Poster Session
Ballroom Foyer
3:20 PM - 4:10 PM The Role of Financial Stability and Financial Conditions in Monetary Policy
Presidential Ballroom
Peter Fisher, Senior Lecturer, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth; former Head of Fixed Income, BlackRock
Sir Paul Tucker, former Deputy Governor, Bank of England; Fellow, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; Chair, Systemic Risk Council
Moderator: David Chance, Editor in Chief for Economics in the Americas, Thomson Reuters
4:10 PM - 5:00 PM General Session
Presidential Ballroom
Glenn Hutchins, Co-Founder, Silver Lake Partners
Moderator: David Wessel, Director, Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, Brookings Institution
5:45 PM - 7:15 PM Offsite Reception
Hosted at the residence of the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the U.S Henne Schuwer
2347 S Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C
Shuttle bus provided
8:00 PM - 9:30 PM GetConnected Networking Meetup
Sidecar at P.J. Clarke's DC
1600 K St NW (Across the street from the Capital Hilton)
Washington, DC 20006
Tuesday, March 8
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
Ballroom Foyer
8:00 AM – 10:30 AM Opening General Session
Presidential Ballroom
8:00 AM - 8:40 AM Policy Imperatives for Boosting Global Growth and Prosperity
David Lipton, First Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Presiding: Stuart Mackintosh*, 2015-16 NABE Vice President, Executive Director, Group of Thirty
8:40 AM - 9:35 AM Political Outlook: 2016 Elections
Charlie Cook, Editor and Publisher, The Cook Political Report
Greg Valliere, Chief Strategist, Horizon Investments
Moderator: Diane Swonk+, Founder, DS Economics
9:35 AM - 10:15 AM A View from U.S. Treasury Department
Karen Dynan, Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist, U.S. Department of the Treasury
Presiding: Mine Yucel*, Senior Vice President and Research Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
10:15 AM – 10:45 AM
Penny Pritzker, Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
Moderator: Ellen Hughes-Cromwick+, Chief Economist, U.S. Department of Commerce
10:45 AM - 11:05 AM Networking Break
Ballroom Foyer
11:05 AM - 12:05 PM Concurrent Sessions III
A. Housing Conundrum: A Shortage of Demand or Supply?
Federal A
Richard Green, Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Christopher Mayer, Professor of Real Estate, Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School
Stephen D. Oliner, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute
Moderator: Selma Hepp, VP Business Intelligence, Pacific Union
B. Policies to Promote New Business Formation
Federal B
Chris Jackson, Small Business Research & Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
David Lingelbach, Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship, University of Baltimore
Holly Wade, Director, Research & Policy Analysis, NFIB Foundation
Moderator: Dan Bean, Financial Analyst, FDIC
C. Legacy of Dodd-Frank: Assessing Five Years of Financial Reform
South American A&B
Dino Falaschetti, Chief Economist, Committee on Financial Services, United States Congress
Frank Medina, Senior Counsel and Director of Research, Better Markets
Edward J. Pinto, Resident Fellow, American Enterprise Institute
Moderator: Richard Brown#, Chief Economist and Associate Director for Regional Operations Division of Insurance and Research, FDIC
12:15 PM - 1:25 PM Luncheon
Presidential Ballroom
Kevin Warsh, Former Governor of the Federal Reserve System; Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution
Presiding: Constance Hunter#, Chief Economist, KPMG
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Concurrent Sessions IV
A. Policies to Promote Health Care Innovation: A Walk on the Supply Side
Federal A
Lina Colucci, co-chair of Hacking Medicine, MIT/Harvard PhD student
Craig Martin, Chief Executive Officer, Feinstein Kean Healthcare
Moderator: Robert Graboyes, Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
B. Reform Agenda in Emerging Asia, Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa
Federal B
Eugenio Aleman, Senior Economist, Wells Fargo
Punam Chuhan-Pole, Acting Chief Economist of the Africa Region, The World Bank Group
Sara Johnson#, Senior Research Director, Global Economics, IHS
Moderator: Jay Bryson, Managing Director, Global Economist, Wells Fargo
C. Divergent or De-synchronized Monetary Policy: Repercussions from the Dollar and Capital Flows
South American A&B
Madelyn Antoncic, Executive Director, Institutional Investment Solutions, Principal Global Investors
M. Ayhan Kose, Director, Development Prospects Group, the World Bank Group
Moderator: Kathy Bostjancic, Director, US Macro Investor Services, Oxford Economics
2:35 PM - 3:30 PM The Global Debate: Austerity vs. Stimulus
South American A&B
Ludger Schuknecht, Director General, Economic Policy and International Economy, German Ministry of Finance
Ángel Ubide, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Moderator: Charles Steindel, Editor, Business Economics
3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Economic Costs and Benefits of Immigration
South American A&B
Steve Camarota, Director of Research, Center for Immigration Studies
Randel Johnson, Senior Vice President, Labor, Immigration, and Employee Benefits, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Moderator: Ed Kean, Senior Economic Policy Analyst, Observatory Group
4:30 PM Adjournment
*Current NABE Director
#Former NABE Director
+Former NABE President