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The Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy

About the Lecture

The Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy was launched in 2008 in honor of Northwestern alumna Susan Schmidt Bies. Bies, who earned her doctorate in economics from Northwestern University in 1972, served in various capacities during a long career, including on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2001 until 2007. The lecture alternates between microeconomic and macroeconomic topics.

UPCOMING LECTURE

"Gita Gopinath: a Conversation with Lawrence Christiano" 

Thursday, April 25, 2024
4:00 - 5:30 
White Auditorium, Kellogg Global Hub

More details forthcoming.

If you are interested in attending the lecture, please RSVP here.

Previous Bies Lectures

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Darrell Duffie
Stanford University
2022 

"The Economics of U.S. Digital Currency Policy.”
April 26, 2022
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Paris School of Economics
2019
"Rising Inequality and Globalization"
April 18, 2019
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Lawrence H. Summers
Harvard University
2017

 

"Current Policy Challenges Facing the U.S."
October 18, 2017
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Claudia GoldinClaudia Goldin
Harvard University
2017
"Career and Family: Collision or Confluence"
May 2, 2017
Link to video
Ben S. BernankeBen S. Bernanke
Brookings Institution
2016
"In Conversation with Professor Janice Eberly"
April 25, 2016
The event was not recorded
CaCarl Shapirorl Shapiro
University of California, Berkeley
2015
"Antitrust Limits on Mergers: Protecting Consumers and Enabling Synergies"
May 13, 2015
Link to video
Christina Romer
University of California, Berkeley
2014

"The Aftermath of Financial Crises: It Doesn't Have to be Terrible"
April 7, 2014
Link to video

Esther Duflo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2013
"Hope, Aspirations and the Design of the Fight Against Poverty"
April 11, 2013
Link to video
Olivier Blanchard 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the International
Monetary Fund
2012

"The Crisis; Where we are and where we may go."
April 30, 2012
Link to video

David Cutler
Harvard University
2011
"The Coming Transformation of American Medicine"
May 19, 2011
Trechet headshotJean-Claude Trichet
President, European Central Bank
2010

"What Central Banks can do in a Crisis"
April 27, 2010

Preston McAfee
Yahoo! Inc.
2009

"The Economics of Internet Advertising and Public Policy"
April 21, 2009

John B. Taylor
Stanford University
2008

"The Explanatory Powers of Monetary Policy Rules"
March 31, 2008