Department of Economics Roundtable

SPEAKERS

Mark A. Snell
Chief Financial Officer
Sempra Energy Global Enterprises

Wednesday, February 18, 2004
7:30-9:00am at the UCSD Faculty Club

"Will the Lights Go Out Again?"
After the blackout of 2003 we know now how important system reliability is! Can it happen again?

Mark A. Snell is chief financial officer of Sempra Energy Global Enterprises, the umbrella organization for the growth businesses of Sempra Energy, a San Diego-based Fortune 500 energy services holding company whose subsidiaries provide electricity, natural gas and value-added products and services. The Sempra Energy companies' nearly 12,000 employees serve more than 28 million customers in the United States, Europe, Canada, Mexico, South America and Asia.

In his current position, Snell oversees the planning, business development and all financial matters for Sempra Energy Global Enterprises. Prior to his role with Global Enterprises, Snell was vice president of planning and development for Sempra Energy.

Previously, Snell served as executive vice president and chief financial officer for Earth Tech, a Long Beach, California-based water management, engineering and environmental services firm, executive vice president and chief financial officer at Dames and Moore, executive vice president and chief financial officer of World Oil Corp., and senior manager at the Los Angeles office of KPMG Peat Marwick.

Mark W. Watson
Professor of Economics and Public Affairs
Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University

Thursday, April 15, 2004
7:30-9:00am at the UCSD Faculty Club

"Has the Business Cycle Changed? Evidence and Explanations"
Alan Greenspan has benefited from Mark Watson's insight. Now you can too!

Mark Watson is professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses on time-series econometrics, empirical macroeconomics, and macroeconomic forecasting. "Has the Business Cycle Changed..." was originally presented at the 2003 Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Conference in Jackson Hole,Wyoming.

Watson has published over sixty scientific articles in these areas and is the author, with James Stock, of Introduction to Econometrics, a leading undergraduate textbook. Watson has served on the editorial boards of several journals including The American Economic Review, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics. He has served as a consultant for the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago and Richmond.

Watson did his undergraduate work at Pierce Junior College and California State University at Northridge, and he is one of our own receiving his Ph.D. from UCSD.

Anne O. Krueger
First Deputy Managing Director
IMF

Thursday, June 3, 2004
7:30-9:00am at the UCSD Faculty Club

“Promoting International Financial Stability: The IMF at 60”
What's wrong with US trade policy? Find out in June!

Anne Krueger is the First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, a post she assumed on September 1, 2001.

Prior to taking her position at the Fund, she was the Herald L. and Caroline L. Ritch Professor in Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Economics at Stanford, the Director of Stanford's Center for Research on Economic Development and Policy Reform, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

Ms.Krueger has published extensively on corruption and economic development, on preferential trading arrangements and the multilateral trading system, and on the US economic policy toward developing countries.

From 1982 to 1986 she was the World Bank's Vice President for Economics and Research. She received her undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin.

Richard Schmalensee
John C. Head III Dean and Professor of Economics and Management, MIT Sloan
School of Management

"Presidential Economics:
Two Views"

Thursday, October 7, 2004
7:30-9:00am at the UCSD Faculty Club

Brad DeLong
Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

Richard Schmalensee
From 1989-1991 Schmalensee was a member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors under the first George Bush Administration. He has served on the National Research Council Committee for the Study of Transportation and a Sustainable Environment, Committee on National Statistics, US Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, Clean Air Act Compliance Analysis Council, Antitrust Division of the US Department of Justice, and the Bureau of Economics, US Federal Trade Commission.

He is a prolific writer and has authored 9 books including “Paying with Plastics: The Digital Revolution in Buying and Borrowing,” “Markets for Clean Air: The US Acid Rain Program,” and “Did Microsoft Harm Consumers? Two Opposing Views” as well as hundreds of journal and other publication articles.

He received both his undergraduate degree and Ph.D. from MIT.

Brad DeLong
Brad DeLong is Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, co-editor of the “Journal of Economic Perspectives”, a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Visiting Scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy from 1993-
1995, worked on the Clinton Administration’s 1993 budget, the North American Free Trade Agreement, the unsuccessful health care reform effort, and on many other issues. His major current projects are two books - “Macroeconomics,” and “The Economic History of the Twentieth Century: Slouching Towards Utopia?” Professor DeLong is a prolific writer and publishes extensively, visit www.j-bradford-delong.net.

DeLong received his B.A. from Harvard in 1982, where he also received his M.A. and Ph.D.