Center on Capitalism and Society 4th Annual Conference: The Dynamism of U.S. Capitalism - Is it Deficient? Is it Endangered?
Staff: James P. Dougherty, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 - Thursday, November 15, 2007
Presented by the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomic Studies and hosted by
Edmund S. Phelps 2006 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, McVickar Professor Political Economy, Columbia University; Director, Center on Capitalism and Society
James P. Dougherty Adjunct Senior Fellow for Business and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations
Meetings
Roundtable Meeting
Debate: Two Views on U.S. Dynamism
Chair: Paul A. Volcker
Speakers: Robert E. Litan, Vice President, Research and Policy, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Bruce Greenwald, Heilbrunn Professor of Finance, Columbia Business School
November 14, 2007
Conference
Director's Remarks
Speaker: Edmund S. Phelps, McVickar Professor Political Economy, Columbia University, Director, Center on Capitalism and Society
November 14, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
Roundtable I: Regulation and Financial Innovation
Chair: Stefano Micossi, Chairman, ASSONIME
Speakers: Richard Robb, CEO, Christofferson, Rob, and Company, Professor of Professional Practice in International Finance, Columbia University
Amar Bhidé, Lawrence D. Glaubinger Professor of Business, Columbia Business School
Paul DeRosa, Partner, Mount Lucas
Narv Narvekar, Vice President, Columbia Investment Management Company, LLC
November 14, 2007
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Roundtable Meeting
Roundtable II: The Enemies from Within - Corporate Governance, Shareholder Rights, Sarbox
Chair: Graciana del Castillo, Visiting Professor, Columbia University
Speakers: Roman Frydman, Professor of Economics, New York University
Andrew Weiss, Professor Emeritus of Economics, Boston University
November 14, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
Roundtable III: Private Equity, Angel Investors, Venture Capital, Managerial Incentives, and Social Arrangements
Chair: Gylfi Zoega, Reader in Economics, Birkbeck College, University of London
Speakers: Peter Jungen, Chairman, Peter Jungen Holding GmbH
Leif Pagrotsky, Central Bank of Sweden, Former Minister for Industry and Trade, Kingdom of Sweden
Peter Howitt, Lyn Crost Professor of Social Sciences, Brown University
Leif Beck Fallesen, Editor-in-Chief and CEO, Dagbladet Børsen
Julie Berry Cullen, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
November 15, 2007
Roundtable Meeting
Roundtable IV: The Enemies from Without: Litigation, Extortion, Stakeholders, Bureaucrats, Lawmakers, Voters
Chair: Luigi Paganetto, President, European Nuclear Energy Authority, President, Economics and Commerce Faculty, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Speakers: William McDavid, Former Chief Counsel, JPMorgan Chase
Amity Shlaes, Senior Fellow for Economic History, Council on Foreign Relations
Andrzej Rapaczynski, Daniel G. Ross Professor of Law, Columbia University
Jerry Muller, Professor, Catholic University of America
November 15, 2007