You are welcome to a public lecture entitled "The Current State of the US Economy: Is there Hope of a Better Future?" given by Prof. Edward P. Lazear, co-hosted by the Stanford Graduate School of Business and the Guanghua School of Management of Peking University. The lecture will take place at 6:30 P.M. on Saturday, June 22. Admission is free of charge. 

GSB alumni and their guests are invited to mingle with Guanghua School of Management   EMBA students and listen to Prof. Lazear discus the current state of the US economy.  Professor Cai Hongbin, Dean of the Guanghua School of Management will act as discussant.

Saturday, June 22

The Current State of the US Economy: Is there Hope of a Better Future?

6:30 - 7:15 pm Registration & Light Meal

7:15 - 8:15 pm Prof. Lazear's Speech

8:15 - 8:30 pm Prof. Cai 's Speech

8:30 - 9:00 pm Discussion & Q&A

Alibaba Auditorium, Guanghua School of Management 

Peking University

Edward P. Lazear

Edward P. Lazear is the Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Jack Steele Parker Professor of Human Resources, Management and Economics at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.  Lazear served at the White House from 2006-2009, where he was chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Before coming to Stanford, he taught at the University of Chicago.

Lazear has received numerous honors and prizes.  Among them, he was awarded the 1998 Leo Melamed Biennial Prize for the best research by a business school professor, the 2004 Prize for Outstanding Contributions to Labor Economics from the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA),and the 2006 Jacob Mincer Prize for lifetime achievement in the field of labor economics. He holds four honorary doctorates, the most recent from the Copenhagen Business School (2013).

Founding editor of the Journal of Labor Economics and founder of the Society of Labor Economists, he is also an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the Econometric Society, and the Society of Labor Economists. He is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and was a member of the National Academy of Sciences Board on Testing and Assessment. Lazear was the first vice-president and president of the Society of Labor Economists.

Lazear has written or edited a dozen books including Personnel Economics (MIT Press, 1995), which expands on his 1993 Wicksell Lectures. He has published more than one hundred papers in leading professional journals.

He received the Distinguished Teaching Award from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business in 1994, and received the Distinguished Service Award from Stanford University in 2002.

Lazear holds AB and AM degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, and a PhD from Harvard University.

Hongbin, Cai

Hongbin Cai received his BA in Mathematics at Wuhan University in 1988, his M.A. in Economics at Peking University in 1991, and his Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University in 1997. He is currently Professor in Economics and Dean of Guanghua School of Management, Peking University. He taught at University of California, Los Angeles before moving back to Peking University. He is a National Chang Jiang Scholar (awarded by Ministry of Education of China) and a National Outstanding Young Researcher (awarded by National Science Foundation of China). Professor Cai has published many academic papers in top international journals in economics and finance, in a wide range of areas including game theory, Chinese economy, industrial organization and corporate finance. He is elected as a Fellow and a Council member of the Econometric Society. Professor Cai is a member of the National People’s Congress, and a member of the Central Committee of China Democratic League and Vice Chairman of its Committee of Economic Affairs. He was the founding president of The Chinese Finance Association (TCFA, overseas). He serves on the boards of China Unicom and on the board of Sinopec Group as an outside director.