Is It Getting Hot in Here? The Fed, Inflation, Regulation and Climate

This event will be held using the online video platform Zoom
June 11
8:00-9:00 a.m.

John Cochrane

Rose-Marie and Jack Andreson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University

The Federal Reserve is aggressively using old tools and new to try to stimulate the economy, even as it expands its regulatory mission towards climate change and social issues. Is the Fed adapting and innovating to the modern challenges, or is it on the path to repeat historical mistakes? Will it lose control of inflation in an overheated economy, and will it over-reach in its economic interference provoking a political backlash? John Cochrane is the Rose-Marie and Jack Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford, and previously was professor of finance at the University of Chicago and president of the American Finance Association. He has written many influential articles and books, including the leading graduate text on asset pricing. He is an elected Fellow of the Econometric Society and recipient of the TIAA Paul Samuelson Award, among many other honors. He blogs as “the grumpy economist” and writes opeds in the Wall Street Journal and other publications.

Cryptocurrencies Versus Central Bank Money

This event will be held using the online video platform Zoom
September 7
8:00-9:00 a.m.

Linda Schilling

Assistant Professor, Ecole Polytechnique CREST

Will cryptocurrency come to replace other currencies? Does it pose achallenge to the efforts of central banks to conduct monetary policy? Linda Schilling is one of the world's leading academic scholars who have studied these questions and will share the insights from her research at the UCSD Economics Roundtable on September 7. She is currently an assistant professor for Ecole Polytechnique and the Center for Research in Economics and Statistics, and has previously taught at Utrecht University.

The Future of Transportation

This event will be held using the online video platform Zoom
November 16
8:00-9:00 a.m.

Mark Jacobsen

Professor, University of California, San Diego

Is the internal combustion engine on the way out? What role will policy decisions play, and what role should they play, in making that happen? And what does the future hold for San Diego and California in particular? Mark Jacobsen is a professor of economics at the University of California at San Diego and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has written extensively on transportation and environmental economics.