The Revival of Activist Policy

Below are links to some of the speeches and presentations given at the Washington Policy Conference. We will be updating this site as we collect new material.

Keynote Session: Corporate Governance

William Donaldson, Chair, Securities and Exchange Commission
Speech (offsite)

Corporate Responsibility and Transparency: Meeting the Challenges and Opportunities

Gary Schieneman, FASB, "Corporate Responsibility and Transparency:
Meeting the Challenges and Opportunities"
Slides

State and Local Fiscal Crisis

Nicholas Jenny, Nelson A Rockefeller Institute, "The Fiscal Crisis in the States"
Slides

What Role Should Institutional Investors Play in Improving Corporate Governance?

George Dallas, Standard & Poor's, "Measuring Corporate Governance: How and Why"
Slides

William Stromberg, T. Rowe Price, "Role of Institutional Investors in Improving Corporate Governance"
Slides

Steve Galbraith and Mary Viviano "Will There Be Enough Dobermans?"
Article

Steve Galbraith "Buy the Board"
Article

Strategic Economic Policy Challenges

Anthony Cordesman's op-ed in 3/20 NY Times (registration required)

Health Care

Uwe E. Reinhardt, "Churchill's Dictum and the Next New Thing in American Health Care"
paper

“The Political Economy of Activist Government Policy”

Tom Gallagher "Is Big Government Back?"
Speech

Monetary Policy in a Changing World

Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Board, "A Perspective on Inflation Targeting"
paper

Statistics and Policy: Agenda for Improvement

Randall Kroszner, CEA, "The Quality of Economic Statistics"

Is Japan Alone? Unconventional Tools in a Deflationary Zone

Vincent Reinhart, "Tools for Combating Deflation"

Stephen Kamin, "Deflation and How to Prevent It"

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Anthony Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, gave an overview of the international situation at Monday's lunch.