Clark Center Economic Experts Conference 2025

Thursday, October 9, 2025

Fireside Chat: Economic Statistics  
12:30–1:30pm

• Erica Groshen (Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations) 
• Michael Horrigan (W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research) 
• Anil K Kashyap (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) 

Session 01: War and Sanctions 
1:30–2:45pm

• Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley) 
• Sergei Guriev (London Business School) 
• Beata Javorcik (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development) - Session Moderator
• Matteo Maggiori (Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University) 

Session 02: Inflation
3:00–4:15pm

• Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University) 
• Silvana Tenreyro (London School of Economics) - Session Moderator
• Iván Werning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 

Session 03: Trade and Protectionism
4:30–5:45pm

• Pol Antras (Harvard University) 
• Brent Neiman (University of Chicago Booth School of Business) - Session Moderator
• Maurice Obstfeld (Peterson Institute for International Economics) 

Public Session: Challenges for the Media in Covering Trade, Climate, and Macroeconomic Policy
6:00–7:00pm

• Ben Casselman (The New York Times) 
• Clive Crook (Bloomberg)
• Greg Ip (The Wall Street Journal) 
• Moderated by: Romesh Vaitilingam (Clark Center for Global Markets)

Friday, October 10, 2025

Session 04: Big Tech
9:00–10:30am

• Judith Chevalier (Yale School of Management)
• Richard Schmalensee (MIT Sloan School of Management) - Session Moderator
• Fiona Scott-Morton (Yale School of Management) 

Session 05: Climate Change and Energy
10:30am–12:00pm

• Michael Greenstone (University of Chicago)
• James Stock (Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University) 
• Johannes Stroebel (Stern School of Business, New York University)