International and Global Challenges

April 25-26 2008

Schedule     Conference Participants     Walking Suggestions

Friday

Saturday

Conference Participants

Daron Acemoglu, Department of Economics, MIT

Thorsten Beck, Senior Financial Economist, World Bank

John Boyd, Department of Finance, Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota

Charles Calomiris, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

Gerard Caprio, Department of Economics, Williams College

Pedro Dal Bó, Department of Economics, Brown University

William Easterly, Department of Economics, New York University

Raymond Fisman, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University

Stephen Haber, Department of Political Science, Stanford University

Ross Levine, Department of Economics, Brown University

Eliana La Ferrara, Department of Economics, Università Bocconi

Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, EDHEC Business School

Marc Melitz, Department of Economics, Princeton University

Victor Menaldo, Department of Political Science, Stanford University

Sri Nagavarapu, Stanford University

Lant Pritchett, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Nouriel Roubini, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University

Yona Rubinstein, Department of Economics, Brown University

Paola Sapienza, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Andrei Shleifer, Department of Economics, Harvard University

William Summerhill, Department of History, UCLA

M. Scott Taylor, Department of Economics, University of Calgary

Luigi Zingales, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago

Some walking suggestions...

From the Westin hotel to the Watson Institute (conference site).

1. Very nice. About 25 minutes. You need to walk up the hill.
2. When you leave the hotel, you see a large black ball. Turn left onto West Exchange Street. Then, immediately left onto Sabin which becomes Exchange Terrace. You then walk past the Courtyard Hotel on your left. Continue straight.
3. Cross the canal and go up the hill. The street changes names to Angell St.
4. About half way up the hill, turn right onto Benefit.
5. Go about two blocks and turn left onto College, at the corner you will see the Providence Athenaeum Library. It is old.
6. Pass through the gates into Brown University.
7. The building immediately in front of you is University Hall, the first building at Brown. Go around it by passing to its right.
8. Cut across the green to the far right corner in front of the John Carter Brown Library.
9. Leave the green and turn left onto George Street. Walk one block.
10. Turn Right onto Thayer and the Watson Institute is one block down on your left (111 Thayer Street).