The Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy
About the Lecture
The Susan Bies Lecture on Economics and Public Policy was launched in 2008 in honor of Northwestern alumna Susan Schmidt Bies. Bies, who earned her doctorate in economics from Northwestern University in 1972, served in various capacities during a long career, including on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from 2001 until 2007. The lecture alternates between microeconomic and macroeconomic topics.
2025 lecture
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Previous Bies Lectures
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Darrell Duffie |
"The Economics of U.S. Digital Currency Policy.” |
 Thomas PikettyParis School of Economics |
"Rising Inequality and Globalization" April 18, 2019 Link to Video |
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Lawrence H. Summers |
"Current Policy Challenges Facing the U.S." |
 Claudia GoldinHarvard University |
"Career and Family: Collision or Confluence" May 2, 2017 Link to video |
 Ben S. BernankeBrookings Institution |
"In Conversation with Professor Janice Eberly" April 25, 2016 The event was not recorded |
 Carl ShapiroUniversity of California, Berkeley |
"Antitrust Limits on Mergers: Protecting Consumers and Enabling Synergies" May 13, 2015 Link to video |
 Christina RomerUniversity of California, Berkeley |
"The Aftermath of Financial Crises: It Doesn't Have to be Terrible" |
 Esther DufloMassachusetts Institute of Technology |
"Hope, Aspirations and the Design of the Fight Against Poverty" April 11, 2013 Link to video |
 Olivier Blanchard Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the International Monetary Fund |
"The Crisis; Where we are and where we may go." |
 David CutlerHarvard University |
"The Coming Transformation of American Medicine" May 19, 2011 |
 Jean-Claude TrichetPresident, European Central Bank |
"What Central Banks can do in a Crisis" |
 Preston McAfeeYahoo! Inc. 2009 |
"The Economics of Internet Advertising and Public Policy" |
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"The Explanatory Powers of Monetary Policy Rules" |
