2004-2005 Economics of Governance Lecture
Sponsored by City National Bank, the inaugural Economics of Governance Lecture was delivered by Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Director, Congressional Budget Office, Washington, D.C. on October 26, 2004 from 3:30 - 5:00 in McDonnell Douglas Engineering Auditorium at University of California, Irvine. The lecture entitled, “Institutions to Promote Fiscal Discipline” was free and open to the public.
UC Irvine was very honored to host Dr. Douglas Holtz-Eakin to deliver the inaugural "Economics of Governance" lecture. The lecture was sponsored by City National Bank, and their support is greatly appreciated. Holtz-Eaking discusses why constitutional and legislative rules have failed to control federal and state budget deficits, and possible rules and policies that might succeed. We are especially fortunate to host Dr. Holtz-Eakin immediately before the 2004 elections.
Douglas Holtz-Eakin is Director of the Congressional Budget Office, the nonpartisan agency responsible for providing Congress with budget and economic analyses. Holtz-Eakin began his four-year term in February 2003. Before that, he was chief economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Holtz-Eakin is Trustee Professor of Economics at the Maxwell School, Syracuse University, where he was chairman of the Department of Economics and associate director of the Center for Policy Research.
Holtz-Eakin has studied the role of federal taxes in home ownership, the contribution of inventories to the business cycle, and a wide variety of topics in state and local government finance. Much of his research has centered on the economics of fundamental tax reform, productivity effects of public infrastructure; income mobility in the United States; and the role of families, capital markets, health insurance, and tax policy in the start-up and survival of entrepreneurial ventures.