2011
October 26
Public Pension Promises: How Big Are They and What Are They Worth?
Joshua D. Rauh, Associate Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
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June 15
The Economics of Sport: What's the Score?
Robert A. Baade, PhD, A.B. Dick Professor of Economics and Business, Lake Forest College
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March 9
The Economics of Retirement Planning: Are Pension Plans Retiring Themselves?
Roger W. Ferguson Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF
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2010
November 10
Has the Recession Arrested Crime?
Richard Rosenfeld, Curators Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri, St. Louis, and President, American Society of Criminology
June 16
The Economics of Income Inequality: Traversing the Great Divide
Steven E. Landsburg, Professor of Economics, University of Rochester
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March 10
The Economics of Urban Growth
Ed Glaeser, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
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2009
Oct. 8
The Economics of Urban Transportation
Kenneth A. Small, Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of California, Irvine
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June 17
Testing the Waters: Pricing and Urban Water Conservation
Sheila M. Olmstead, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics, Yale University
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March 11
Solving Global Issues: Where Do We Start?
Finn Kydland, Henly Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Nobel Prize Laureate
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2008
Nov. 12
Entitlement Spending: The Coming Reckoning
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics, Boston University, and President, Economic Security Planning Inc.
Sept. 10
The Economics of Rising Oil Prices—What Is the Cause?
James D. Hamilton, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
May 7
The Economics of Immigration
Gordon Hanson, Director of the Center on Pacific Economies and Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Feb. 13
The Economics of Health Care Policy
Joseph Newhouse, John P. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University
2007
Oct. 10
Real-Time China: Exploring China's Emergence as a Market Economy and a Global Player
Dave Altig, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
