Rausser Festschrift

Richard Lyons
Professor of Finance and former Dean, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley (Moderator)

Paul Alivisatos
Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost, UC Berkeley

Carol Christ
Chancellor, UC Berkeley

Ann Harrison
Dean, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley

Gerard Roland
E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics and Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley (leading theorist of political and economic analysis of transition economies), UC Berkeley (Moderator)

Nicholas Stern
Chief Economist World Bank (2000-2003); First Chief Economist for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (1994-1999); Chair of the Grantham Research Institute; Chair of the Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy; IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government at the London School of Economics and Political Science

Francis Fukuyama
Olivier Nomellini Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Research Affiliate at The Europe Center, Stanford University; author of "The End of History," and many subsequent defenses.

Goran Buldioski
Director, Berlin Office and Co-Director, Open Society Initiative for Europe (OSIFE) at the Open Society Foundations

Stan Johnson
Former Director of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD); Chairman of the Board, Institute for Policy Reform

Joseph Stiglitz
Nobel Laureate, Economics, 2001; University Professor, Columbia University; Chief Economist, The Roosevelt Institute

Yang Xie
Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, UC Riverside

Jo Swinnen
Professor of Development Economics and Director of LICOS Center for Institutions and Economic Performance at the KU Leuven Stanford University (Moderator)

Julian M. Alston
Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis

Leo Simon
Adjunct Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economic UC Berkeley; Department of Economics, Monash University

Jinhua Zhao
Professor, Department of Economics, Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University Michigan State University

William Foster
William E. Foster is Professor at Pontifica Universidad Catolica de Chile, Departamento de Economia Agraria, in Santiago, Chile

Rich Gilbert
Emeritus Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley; former Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Economics with the U.S. Justice Department; and former Director of the University of California Energy Institute (Moderator)

Jeffrey M. Perloff
Professor and Chair, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California at Berkeley UC Berkeley

David Sunding
Thomas J. Graff Chair in the College of Natural Resources and Professor, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley UC Berkeley

Michael Hausfeld
Chairman of Hausfeld LLP; Leading Class-Antitrust Attorney

Gareth Macartney
Partner, Senior Economist and Director of Competition Analytics at OnPoint

Martin Stuermer
Senior Research Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Brian Wright
Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (Moderator)

Vito Palmieri
co-founder, Equity Administration Solutions (EASi), Former CEO, Certent

Bill Balson
Economist and Risk Manager, Former CFO, Opt4 Derivatives

Colin Carter
Distinguished Professor ARE, UC Davis

Alan Love
Professor and Director, School of Economic Sciences, Washington State University, Washington State University

Gordon Fallone
Co-founder and Managing Partner, OnPoint Analytics Capital Partners

Dean David Ackerly
Dean of College of Natural Resources (CNR) and Professor, Integrative Biology, UC Berkeley (Moderator)

Carol Christ
Chancellor of the University of California, UC Berkeley

J. Keith Gilless
Professor of Forest Economics and Dean Emeritus, UC Berkeley

Jill J. McCluskey
Distinguished Professor of Sustainability, Washington State University

David Just
Professor and Area Coordinator for Applied Economics and Policy Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and Susan Eckert Lynch Professor in Science and Business, SC Johnson School of Business, Cornell University

Alain de Janvry
Emeritus Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley (Moderator)

Michael Carter
Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis; Honorary Professor of Economics, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Marcel Fafchamps
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Senior Fellow at the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law; Courtesy Professor, Department of Economics; Stanford University, Stanford University

Jeremy Magruder
Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

Douglas A. Irwin
John French Professor of Economics, Dartmouth College; author, "Clashing over Commerce: A History of U.S. Trade Policy;" 2019 Hayek Book Prize recipient, (Moderator)

Hongbin Li
James Liang Director of the China Program at the Stanford Center on Global Poverty and Development, and a Senior Fellow of Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)

Daniel Sumner
Frank H. Buck, Jr. Distinguished Professor, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis UC Davis

Harry de Gorter
Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University

Kym Anderson
George Gollin Professor Emeritus in the School of Economics, foundation Executive Director of the Wine Economics Research Centre, and formerly foundation Executive Director of the Centre for International Economic Studies, University of Adelaide

Richard Howitt
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis (Moderator)

Larry Karp
Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Berkeley

Gordon Rausser
Robert Gorden Sproul Distinguished Professor, ARE UC Berkeley; Former Chief Economist of the U.S. Agency for International Development; and Founder of the Institute for Policy Reform, UC Berkeley

Joe Fargnoli
Chief Technological Officer, Theia

Solomon Hsiang
Chancellor’s Associate Professor of Public Policy, UC Berkeley

David Zilberman
Robinson Chair, Agricultural and Resource Economics; Director, Center for Sustainable Resource Development, UC Berkeley, 2019 Wolf Prize in Agriculture recipient (Moderator), UC Berkeley (Moderator)

Brief comments by Nicholas Stern and Joseph Stiglitz

Michael Hanemann
Julie A. Wrigley Chair in Sustainability, School of Sustainability, Arizona State University; Professor Emeritus, Department of Agricultural and Resources Economics, UC Berkeley

Ariel Dinar
Distinguished Professor, School of Public Policy, UC Riverside

Yacov Tsur
Professor, Department of Environmental Economics and Management; Ruth Ochberg Chair in Agriculture, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Hebrew University

Susan Stratton Sayre
Associate Professor of Economics, Smith College

Rachael Goodhue
Department Chair and Professor, UC Davis, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Alex McCalla
Professor Emeritus, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis (Presenter)

Discussant: Brian Wright
Current Director of the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics

Discussant: David Just
Professor and Area Coordinator for Applied Economics and Policy Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and Susan Eckert Lynch Professor in Science and Business, SC Johnson School of Business, Cornell University