The NewDEAL: Facilitating Economic Growth in the United States

With support from the Columbia Business School Executive Education

July 29-30, 2013
Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy
Columbia Business School
Uris Hall Room 331

Monday, July 29, 2013

8:00am – 9:00am Arrive at Columbia University

9:00am – 9:15am Welcome Remarks

         Christopher Mayer, Paul Milstein Professor of Real Estate

         Co-Director, Richard Paul Richman Center for Business,

         Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University

9:15am – 10:15am Breakfast Speaker: Energy and the US Economy

         Jason Bordoff, Professor of Professional Practice in

         International and Public Affairs. Director, Center on

         Global Energy Policy, Columbia University

10:15am – 10:30am Break (Coffee/tea available in room 329)

10:30am – 12:45pm Growth in the US: A Macro and Global Perspective - Including a Case Study

          Pierre Yared, Associate Professor of Business,

          Columbia Business School

12:45pm – 1:00pm Break 

1:00pm – 2:15pm Lunch/Speaker: “The Future: Jobless Growth”

          Andrew Stern, Ronald O. Perelman Senior Fellow, Richard

          Paul Richman Center for Business, Law and Public Policy at

          Columbia University

2:15pm – 2:45pm Break

2:45pm – 4:15pm Economic Growth: Institutional Foundations - Companies, Governance and Markets

          Wei Jiang, Arthur F. Burns Professor of Free and Competitive

          Enterprise; Chair, Finance Subdivision, Columbia Business School

 4:15pm – 4:30pm Break

4:30pm – 6:00pm Economic Growth: Institutional Foundations - Financial Institutions after the Financial Crisis

          Jeffrey Gordon, Richard Paul Richman Professor of Law;

          Co-Director, Richman Center for Business, Law and Public

          Policy at Columbia University

6:15pm – 7:00 pm Cocktail Reception – Faculty Room, Low Library

7:00pm – 8:30 pm Dinner Discussion: “Does America really need homeownership?”

          Moderator: Professor Chris Mayer

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

8:30am – 8:45am Arrive at Columbia University & Breakfast (Room 329)

8:45am – 9:30am Breakfast Speaker: Tax Reform and Growth

          Glenn Hubbard, Dean and Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance

          and Economics, Columbia Business School 

9:30am – 9:45am Break

9:45am – 10:45am Taxation and Inequality

         Wojciech Kopczuk, Professor of Economics and of International

          and Public Affairs, Columbia University

10:45am – 11:00 am Break

11:00am–12:15pm Tax Policies and Economic Growth

          Michael Graetz, Professor of Tax Law, Wilbur H. Friedman,

          Columbia Alumni Professor of Tax Law,

          Columbia Law School 

12:15pm NewDEAL Program Time