2009 UC San Diego Economics Roundtable

The UC San Diego Economics Roundtable is organized by the UC San Diego Department of Economics in coordination with UC San Diego Extended Studies and Public Programs. The purpose of the Roundtable is to provide top business professionals and community leaders in the San Diego region with the opportunity to share the views and opinions of renowned experts in the fields of economics, finance, business and public policy. Members of the Roundtable will share insights with their counterparts in the business community and with members of the UC San Diego faculty.

Registration

$150 for the full series (25% discount)
Phil Verleger lecture: $50
Julian Betts lecture: $50
Maureen Stapleton: $50
William Poole: $50

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Schedule of Events

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Phil Verleger
President, PKVerleger LLC

Thursday, February 19, 2009
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Continental Breakfast)
UC San Diego Faculty Club

"Why the Price of Crude Should Never Exceed $80.00 a Barrel"

 

Dr. Philip K. Verleger, Jr. is president of PKVerleger LLC and Senior Advisor to The Brattle Group, a Cambridge, Massachusetts economics consulting firm, where he specializes in the study of energy commodity markets.

The author of over 100 articles and books on energy economics, Verleger has testified frequently as an expert witness for parties in private disputes and as an independent authority to the U.S. Congress. His testimony before Congress has addressed regulation, taxation, the behavior of markets, and most recently mergers.

Dr. Verleger has held positions at the President's Council of Economic Advisors, the US Treasury, the Institute for International Economics, Yale University, and the University of California. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council and the Council of Foreign Relations.

Verleger received his Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.

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Julian Betts
Professor and Chair, UC San Diego Department of Economics

Wednesday, April 29, 2009
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Continental Breakfast)
UC San Diego Faculty Club

"Under the Obama Administration: Hope and Change in Education?"

 

Much of Julian Betts' research is focused on the economic analysis of education. He writes extensively on the link between student outcomes and measures of public school spending including class size, teachers' salaries, and teachers' levels of education. Most recently, he has examined the role that standards and expectations play in student achievement.

He has authored and co-authored numerous books including Does School Choice Work? Effects on Student Integration and Achievement; From Blueprint to Reality: San Diego's Education Reforms; and Equal Resources, Equal Outcomes? The Distribution of School Resources and Student Achievement in California.

Betts is Professor and Chair of the UC San Diego Economics Department, a Senior Fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California, a member of the Technical Review Panel for the No Child Left Behind National Study, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Preuss School at UC San Diego.

Betts obtained his Bachelors' degree in chemistry from McGill University and his Ph.D. in Economics from Queens University in Ontario, Canada.

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Maureen Stapleton
General Manager, San Diego County Water Authority

Thursday, July 16, 2009
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Continental Breakfast)
UC San Diego Faculty Club

"The True Value of Water"

 

Maureen Stapleton is the General Manager of the San Diego County Water Authority, the regional water agency that provides up to 90 percent of all the water used in San Diego county supporting a $163 billion economy and quality of life for over 3 million residents.

As the General Manager, Stapleton oversees a comprehensive array of water supply programs designed to diversify and improve the reliability of San Diego County's water supply. She successfully negotiated the 2003 Colorado River Qualification Settlement Agreement which provides up to 21.4 million acre-feet of water to San Diego County over the next 110 years. She is also responsible for the implementation of a $3.6 billion Capital Improvement Program, including the Emergency Storage Project, and in addition the Water Authority is aggressively pursuing the development of seawater desalinization, outdoor conservation, and enhanced recycling.

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William Poole
Former Chief Executiver, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Thursday, October 22, 2009
7:30 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. (Continental Breakfast)
UC San Diego Faculty Club

"The Feds Exit Strategy "

 

Dr. William Poole is the eleventh Chief Executive of the Federal Bank of St. Louis. He took office in March of 1998 and stepped down in March of 2008. Poole has critized the underwriting standards and interest-rate assessments of Wall Street and endorsed the Fed's steps to stregthen consumer safeguards. "The punishment has been meted out for those who have done misdeeds and made bad judgments," Poole told reporters after his speech on the market for mortgages to borrowers with sketchy or weak credit histories. "We are getting good evidence that the companies and hedge funds that are being hit are the ones who deserve it."

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Acknowledgements

The Department of Economics gratefully acknowledges the 2009 UC San Diego Economics Roundtable Steering Committee for their support:

Jeffrey Elman, Dean of Social Sciences UC San Diego	Alan. N. Nevin, Director of Economic Research MarketPointe Realty Advisors
Rick F. Hall, President and CEO La Jolla Bank	Don Billings, Principal Promontory Financial Group
Bill Nelson, Board of Directors Regents Bank	Nils Clark, Assistant Vice President Wells Fargo Investments
Donald Smythe, Professor of Law California Western School of Law	Jeffrey Lewin, Partner Sullivan Hill Lewin Rez & Engel
James Hamilton, Professor of Economics UC San Diego	Mary Walshok, Dean & Assoc. Vice Chancellor UC San Diego Extended Studies and Public Programs

The UCSD Economics Roundtable thanks Corporate Sponsor Wells Fargo and Table Underwriters La Jolla Bank, MarketPointe Realty Advisors, UC San Diego School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, The San Diego Daily Transcript, Sullivan Hill Lewin Rez & Engel, Regents Bank, Reis Investment Management, California Western School of Law, and UCSD-TV for their generous support of this series.