SAMUEL G. HANSON is a Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He teaches the Investment Strategies course in the MBA elective curriculum and PhD courses in Corporate Finance and Empirical Methods.
Professor Hanson holds a Ph.D. in Business Economics from Harvard University and a B.A. in Quantitative Economics and Philosophy from Tufts University. Before beginning his doctoral studies, he worked as an investment banking analyst at Lehman Brothers and as an assistant economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. During 2009 Hanson worked at the U.S. Treasury Department where he served as a Special Assistant and Liaison to the White House National Economic Council.
Professor Hanson’s research interests lie in corporate finance, behavioral finance, and asset pricing. His recent research has focused on corporate supply responses to fluctuations in investor demand for different types of securities and on optimal financial regulation. Hanson’s research has appeared in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, the Review of Financial Studies, and the Journal of Economic Perspectives.
STEVEN J. DAVIS is distinguished service professor of business and economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is also a research associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research, advisor to the U.S. Congressional Budget Office, consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, senior academic fellow with the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research, senior adviser to the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, past editor of the American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, and elected fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. Davis is an applied economist who studies business dynamics, worker outcomes, economic uncertainty, public policy, and other topics. He is known for influential research using longitudinal data on firms and establishments to explore business outcomes, labor market consequences, and economic performance. He is a co-founder of the Economic Policy Uncertainty project, the Survey of Business Uncertainty, and the Stock Market Jumps project. He co-organizes the Asian Monetary Policy Forum, held annually in Singapore. In addition to his scholarly work, Davis has written for the Atlantic, Bloomberg View, Financial Times, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and other popular media. He has appeared on BBC, Bloomberg TV, CGTN, Channel News Asia, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, NBC Network News, Sinclair Broadcast Group, and the U.S. Public Broadcasting System.
NICK BLOOM is a Professor in the department of economics and Professor, by courtesy, at the Graduate School of Business. He is also the Co-Director of the Productivity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship program at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a fellow of the Centre for Economic Performance, and the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research. He is currently a Faculty Research Fellow in the NBER programs on public economics and corporate finance.
Nick was an undergraduate in Cambridge, a masters student at Oxford, and a PhD student at University College London. While completing his PhD he worked part-time at the Institute for Fiscal Studies, a London based tax think-tank. After completing his PhD Nick worked as a business tax policy advisor to the UK Treasury, and then joined McKinsey & Company as a management consultant. In 2003 he moved to the London School of Economics to focus on research, before joining Stanford University in 2005. Professor Bloom’s research focuses on measuring and explaining management practices. He has been working with McKinsey & Company as part of a long-run effort to collect management data from over 10,000 firms across industries and countries. The aim is to build an empirical basis for understanding what factors drive differences in management practices across regions, industries and countries, and how this determines firm and national performance. More recently he has also been working with Accenture on running management experiments. He also works on understanding the impacts of large uncertainty shocks—such as the credit crunch, the 9/11 terrorist attacks and the Cuban Missile crisis—on the US economy, for which he won the Frisch Medal in 2010.
Nick lives on Stanford campus with his wife and three children. As a born and bred Londoner, married to a Scottish wife, with kids attending US schools, he lives in a multi-lingual English household.
JOSE MARIA BARRERO is an Assistant Professor of Finance at Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM), where he conducts empirical and quantitative research in macroeconomics, finance, and labor economics, much of it focusing on firm behavior under uncertainty and more recently on the labor market impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Professor Barrero holds a BA in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MA and PhD in Economics from Stanford University.
STAN VEUGER is a senior fellow in economic policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). He is also the editor of AEI Economic Perspectives, and a fellow at the IE School of Global and Public Affairs and at Tilburg University. He was a visiting lecturer of economics at Harvard in the fall of 2021 and a Campbell Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution in May 2022.
Dr. Veuger’s research has been published in leading academic and professional journals, including the Journal of Monetary Economics, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, and The Review of Economics and Statistics. He is the coeditor, with Michael Strain, of “Economic Freedom and Human Flourishing: Perspectives from Political Philosophy” (AEI Press, 2016).
Dr. Veuger also comments frequently on economics, politics, and popular culture for general audiences. His writing has been featured in The Bulwark, Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, USA Today, and The Washington Post, among others. His broadcast appearances include CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Telemundo, and Univision.
He received a PhD and an AM in economics from Harvard. He also holds degrees from Erasmus University Rotterdam, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, University of London, and Utrecht University.
Jeffrey Clemens is a Professor of Economics at the University of California at San Diego (UCSD), where he is also the director of the Center for Economic Policy Analysis. He is a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a CESifo Research Network Fellow, and an adjunct Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Professor Clemens has a research portfolio spanning the economics of state and local government finances, fiscal federalism, health policy, and minimum wages. His ongoing projects include a set of analyses of the fiscal effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the associated federal response. Through a grant from the Smith Richardson Foundation, he is co-organizing a pair of NBER conferences on the fiscal dynamics of state and local governments. Professor Clemens is concluding terms as a Co-Editor at the Journal of Public Economics and the Journal of Health Economics, and is an Associate Editor at the Journal of Economic Perspectives and American Economic Journal: Economic Policy. He is also a member of the Congressional Budget Office’s Panel of Health Advisers.
John Sabelhaus is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. and adjunct research professor at the University of Michigan. He also provides independent consulting to groups such as the U.S. Census Bureau (through the Mitre Corporation), AARP Public Policy Institute, Economic and Social Development Canada, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (through NORC). John was a visiting scholar at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth in 2019 and 2020. Prior to that, he was assistant director in the Division of Research and Statistics at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. John’s roles at the Federal Reserve Board included oversight of the Microeconomic Surveys and Household and Business Spending sections, including primary responsibility for the Survey of Consumer Finances. Prior to joining the Federal Reserve Board staff, John was a senior economist at the Investment Company Institute and Chief of Long Term Modeling at the Congressional Budget Office, where he oversaw the development of an integrated micro/macro model of Social Security and Medicare. He also served as an adjunct in the Department of Economics at the University of Maryland between 1999 and 2018. John received his Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in economics from the University of Maryland.
Tara Watson is an economist focused on U.S. social policy, with interests in the safety net, health, and immigration. She is professor of economics at Williams College, a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), and a co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources. In 2015-16, Watson served as deputy assistant secretary for microeconomic analysis in the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Economic Policy. She was previously a Robert Wood Johnson Scholar in Health Policy Research at the University of Michigan, a visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, and a research associate at the Princeton Center for Research on Child Wellbeing. Dr. Watson earned her Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 2003. Her 2021 book, ”The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear”, written with journalist Kalee Thompson, was released by University of Chicago Press.