Peterson Institute Events: Audio

Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild, CEO of E.L. Rothschild, chairs the question and answer session for Panel 2, "Long Term Investing," at the event "Inclusive Capitalism: What Business and Labor Can Do for Quality Employment," held at the Peterson Institute on January 14, 2013. Panelists included Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director of McKinsey and Company, and James Leech, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. The event, cohosted with the Henry Jackson Initiative (HJI), was held to discuss how business and labor can make a difference to employment and wage outcomes to build globally sustainable capitalism.

The Peterson Institute held a significant and path-breaking all-day conference on "Ethics and Globalization: The Tradeoffs Underlying Our Policy Choices" on January 7, 2013. Adam S. Posen, President of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, introduced the program. The program featured a distinguished group of economists, philosophers, political scientists, and policymakers engaged in an interdisciplinary discussion of fundamental issues underlying economic policy decisions. Participants addressed the challenges of considering duties to domestic versus global welfare, balancing economic goals between generations, expecting ethical duties from private actors, and reconciling global governance and local accountability.

PIIE Senior Fellow Jeffrey J. Schott presents the findings of Understanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a new Policy Analysis in International Economics released by the Peterson Institute on December 19, 2012. The Institute also released The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: A Quantitative Assessment at the same meeting. The TPP negotiations may achieve completion in 2013 and are the largest and most important trade talks taking place anywhere in the world.

Professor Peter A. Petri of Brandeis University presents the findings of The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: A Quantitative Assessment, a new Policy Analysis in International Economics released by the Peterson Institute on December 19, 2012. The Institute also released Understanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership at the same meeting. The TPP negotiations may achieve completion in 2013 and are the largest and most important trade talks taking place anywhere in the world.

PIIE Senior Fellow Jeffrey J. Schott and Professor Peter A. Petri of Brandeis University take audience questions following their presentations of two new books released by the Peterson Institute on December 19, 2012. Schott is coauthor of Understanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership and Petri is coauthor of The Trans-Pacific Partnership and Asia-Pacific Integration: A Quantitative Assessment. The TPP negotiations may achieve completion in 2013 and are the largest and most important trade talks taking place anywhere in the world.

Senator Orrin Hatch, the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, leads off a conference on US corporate tax reform, "Reviving US Competitiveness and Economic Growth," at the Peterson Institute on December 12, 2012.

Mark Cliffe, chief economist of the ING Group based in Amsterdam, spoke at the Peterson Institute on November 13, 2012 on the topic of how a breakup of the euro area can be avoided. Cliffe and his ING team have attracted considerable attention for having described the nature and possible consequences of a breakup of the euro area. They have devised a strategy to avoid such an outcome built on a three-part platform of reform, reflation, and redistribution—all of which raise major political problems both within and among the member countries.

Nicholas R. Lardy assesses the outlook for China at the Peterson Institute's twenty-first semiannual Global Economic Prospects meeting on November 8, 2012.

Adam Posen, David Stockton, and Nicholas Lardy take audience questions at the Peterson Institute's twenty-first semiannual Global Economic Prospects meeting on November 8, 2012. The Honorable Carla Hills presided over the session.

Adam S. Posen, incoming PIIE president, analyzes the outlook for Europe and the euro area. He spoke at the Peterson Institute's twenty-first semiannual Global Economic Prospects meeting on November 8, 2012.

The Honorable Carla Hills introduces David J. Stockton, newest senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. David Stockton presented the US outlook at the Peterson Institute's twenty-first semiannual Global Economic Prospects meeting on November 8, 2012.

Closing remarks are made at the Festschrift held in honor of John Williamson at the Peterson Institute on November 1, 2012.

Stanley Fischer, governor of the Central Bank of Israel, delivers the keynote address at a Festschrift held in honor of John Williamson at the Peterson Institute on November 1, 2012. Fischer spoke on the topic of the Washington Consensus, a term coined by Williamson.

Matías Rodriguez Inciarte, vice chairman and executive vice president for risk of Banco Santander, addresses the topic of "Strength in a Time of Crisis: The Experience of Banco Santander" at the Peterson Institute on October 9, 2012. Inciarte shares his views on Spain, the European economy, and progress toward achieving a banking union in the euro area.

The Peterson Institute hosted an event September 28, 2012, to present the reform proposals for the euro area made by the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) Council on the Euro Zone Crisis. The Council is a nonpartisan group of leading economists from throughout the euro area that has already had a major impact on the European debate. PIIE Senior Fellow Adam Posen is a member of the Council's Advisors.