A festschrift honoring the career of Gordon Rausser was held on October 24-25, 2019. Videos of each panel discussion are available here, and more details are available on the festchrift schedule page.
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Panel 1: University Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and the Fostering of Public-Private Partnerships
Panel 1: University Entrepreneurship, Leadership, and the Fostering of Public-Private Partnerships
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
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Panel 2: Public Policy and Market Reforms in Transition Economics
Panel 2: Public Policy and Market Reforms in Transition Economics
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
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Panel 3: Political Economy in Elections and Public Policy Selection: New Implications of Narrative Control
Panel 3: Political Economy in Elections and Public Policy Selection: New Implications of Narrative Control
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
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Panel 4: Law and Economics
Panel 4: Law and Economics
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
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
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Panel 5: Macroeconomic Linkages, Hedge Funds, Derivative Markets, Futures, and Options
Panel 5: Macroeconomic Linkages, Hedge Funds, Derivative Markets, Futures, and Options
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
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Panel 6: Celebrating Gordon Rausser’s CNR Career
Panel 6: Celebrating Gordon Rausser’s CNR Career
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
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Panel 7: Governance Structures and Agriculture’s Role in Economic Development
Panel 7: Governance Structures and Agriculture’s Role in Economic Development
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
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Panel 8: China U.S. Trade Relationships: Agricultural Distortions and the Uruguay Round
Panel 8: China U.S. Trade Relationships: Agricultural Distortions and the Uruguay Round
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
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Panel 9: Big Data Analytics and Continuous Remote Sensing: Revisiting Optimal Control Methodologies
Panel 9: Big Data Analytics and Continuous Remote Sensing: Revisiting Optimal Control Methodologies
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
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Panel 10: Social Costs: Exhaustible and Renewable Natural Resources (with Emphasis on Water Resources)
Panel 10: Social Costs: Exhaustible and Renewable Natural Resources (with Emphasis on Water Resources)
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