Research Events
Global Perspectives Speaker Series
Prior to 2024, the Global Perspectives Speaker Series featured conversations between special guests and former Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan.
In an online-only broadcast, Donald Kohn and Dallas Fed President Rob Kaplan discuss Kohn’s career at the Fed, his experience during the Global Financial Crisis and his thoughts on the Fed’s reaction to the current crisis.
April 23, 2020
In an online-only Global Perspectives conversation, Thomas Hoenig discusses banking supervision and the Federal Reserve's response to COVID-19.
April 14, 2020
William C. Dudley discusses monetary policy, the financial crisis and working for the Federal Reserve.
February 12, 2020
Douglas Holtz-Eakin talks about his involvement with the American Action Forum and discusses health spending, inflation growth and corporate taxes.
November 13, 2019
Tom Luce talks about how how data is helping tell a deeper story about education and ways that Texas can improve its educational rankings.
November 06, 2019
Glenn Hubbard shares his experiences working in the George W. Bush administration and discusses immigration's impact on the workforce.
October 10, 2019
Ruth J. Simmons talks about her upbringing and what led her to a career in academia. She also shares advice about how we can improve the education experiences from young children to college students.
September 05, 2019
Janet Yellen, former chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, discusses how she became an economist, her job serving as the Fed chair and rethinking the 2 percent inflation goal.
April 10, 2019
Leavitt Partners founder, former Utah governor and Bush-era cabinet member Mike Leavitt shares his thoughts on reforming health care, the new models of education and how technology is disrupting higher education.
April 04, 2019
N. Gregory Mankiw, the Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics at Harvard University, talks about what economists don’t understand about politicians, and what politicians don’t understand about economists.
March 07, 2019