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2025 SIEPR Economic Summit
Convening the top economic thinkers from the worlds of policy, business and academia is core to our mission. This year's SIEPR Economic Summit continued our tradition of discussing the most pressing economic issues in an ever-changing world. Explore the day's highlights, including insights from ÀÖÓãÌåÓý President Jonathan Levin, JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, Alphabet President Ruth Porat, and Austan Goolsbee from the Chicago Fed.
Return to office? Not so fast.
Research from SIEPR's Nick Bloom and Steven Davis shows that many companies are standing firm on their hybrid or fully remote work policies.
What draws our scholars and students to economic policy?
Priyanka Parikh became a SIEPR predoc to explore life as a researcher. After fully immersing herself in economic policy research, she realized she wanted to train as a health economist. Learn more about what drives Priyanka and others featured in our Why Econ series.
Reforming fragmented US banking regulation
Our latest policy brief by SIEPR Senior Fellow Amit Seru unpacks the regulatory architecture of the U.S. banking system, its overlapping jurisdictions and — at times — competing interests. Citing the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and First Republic Bank, Seru's research shines a light on this multi-regulatory framework and questions if it actually fosters stability or stifles innovation, responsiveness, and accountability.
Recent News
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Trump's recent initiatives in the cryptocurrency sector have introduced uncertainty and instability to the crypto market. SIEPR's Amit Seru weighs in via a new op-ed on Barron's.
March 27, 2025
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Bhattacharya takes helm of NIH
The SIEPR affiliate won Senate confirmation Tuesday
March 25, 2025
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Study spotlights a ‘jobs engine’ (that isn’t AI)
New research from SIEPR’s Neale Mahoney measures the huge surge in health care jobs and sets the stage for more on why patterns and policies are panning out as expected, or not.
March 25, 2025