The Eurozone Crisis and Its Impact on the United States

World class economists Henning Bohn and Robert Parry will discuss the Eurozone crisis and its impact on the U.S. This timely and important conversation will be moderated by Bill Watkins, executive director of CLU’s Center for Economic Research and Forecasting (CERF).

Henning Bohn is a professor of economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research and teaching is in the areas of macroeconomics, public economics and international finance. He has published scholarly articles on a variety of topics including government debt, public debt management, social security, tax theory, demographic change and international capital flows. Bohn received his Ph.D. from Stanford in 1986 under the guidance of Ben Bernanke.

Robert Parry served as president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco for more than 18 years and retired from that position in 2004. He is currently a director of both PACCAR Inc. and Janus Capital Group Inc. He also is a director of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the nation’s leading private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. Parry earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania.

 Before coming to CLU, Bill Watkins served as the executive director of UCSB’s Economic Forecast Project and as an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in Washington, D.C. He has been widely published in academic journals and is quoted regularly by news organizations throughout the world. He earned his doctorate in economics from U.C. Santa Barbara.

Admission is free. There will be a hosted networking reception from 6 to 6:30 p.m.

Register by Feb. 11