The Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy

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 will alternate between microeconomic and macroeconomic topics.

Monday, April 30, 2012
5:15pm - 7:00pm
Auditorium, Leverone Hall

Olivier Blanchard
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the International Monetary Fund)

"Title to be Announced"

Olivier Blanchard is the Class of 1941 Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is currently on leave at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, where he is the Economic Counsellor and the director of Research. He is a macroeconomist, who has worked on a wide set of issues, from the role of monetary policy, to the nature of speculative bubbles, to the nature of the labor market and the determinants of unemployment, to transition in former communist countries, to macroeconomic slumps, and to external imbalances. In the process, he has worked with numerous countries and international organizations. He is the author of many books and articles, including two textbooks in macroeconomics, one at the graduate level with Stanley Fischer, one at the undergraduate level. He is a fellow and past Council member of the Econometric Society, a past vice president of the American Economic Association, and a member of the American Academy of Sciences.

Video of the Most Recent Lecture

David Cutler (Harvard University) "The Coming Transformation of American Medicine." May 19, 2011.

Previous Bies Lectures

David Cutler Harvard University 2011		"The Coming Transformation of American Medicine" May 19, 2011
Jean-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