PRI Webinar with Dr. Lee Ohanian – Now Scheduled for May 19

May 19, 2023
11:00 am
On Zoom
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***Please note that this event has been rescheduled to Friday, May 19 at 11 AM Pacific.  If you previously registered for the event, your registration is still valid.

 

Join PRI for a special discussion with Hoover Institution senior fellow and UCLA professor Dr. Lee Ohanian about California’s growing outmigration problem, in conversation with Dr. Wayne Winegarden, PRI senior fellow in business and economics. 

 

They will discuss cost of living problems worsened by poor state public policies that are increasing housing costs across the state and worsening quality of life in major cities like San Francisco.  They will also explore reforms to stem the tide of people, jobs and opportunity out of state.

 

Click here to register to watch the webinar live!

 

 


Register here https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__axoHLGkQcmVCkhxc_lttQ

About Lee Ohanian:

Lee E. Ohanian is a senior fellow (adjunct) at the Hoover Institution and a professor of economics and director of the Ettinger Family Program in Macroeconomic Research at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

He is associate director of the Center for the Advanced Study in Economic Efficiency at Arizona State University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, where he codirects the research initiative Macroeconomics across Time and Space. He is also a fellow in the Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory.

His research focuses on economic crises, economic growth, and the impact of public policy on the economy. Ohanian is coeditor of Government Policies and Delayed Economic Recovery (Hoover Institution Press, 2012). He is an adviser to the Federal Reserve Banks of Minneapolis and St. Louis, has previously advised other Federal Reserve banks, foreign central banks, and the National Science Foundation, and has testified to national and state legislative committees on economic policy. He is on the editorial boards of Econometrica and Macroeconomic Dynamics. He is a frequent media commentator and writes for the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Investor’s Business Daily. He has won numerous teaching awards at UCLA and the University of Rochester.

He previously served on the faculties of the Universities of Minnesota and Pennsylvania and as vice president at Security Pacific Bank. He received his undergraduate degree in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his PhD in economics from the University of Rochester.

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