EVENTS

Date:	Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Time:	1:00 PM -- 2:30 PM
Location:	Wohlstetter Conference Center, Twelfth Floor, AEI 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036

Roger Aliaga-Díaz is a senior economist in the economic strategy unit at the Vanguard Group. His research focuses on monetary policy, global financial markets, and the U.S. economy. Mr. Aliaga-Díaz has published studies on a variety of investment and macroeconomic issues and he has presented his research at various academic and business forums, including most recently at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the American Economic Association. Prior to joining Vanguard, he was a visiting professor of macroeconomics at Drexel University's LeBow College of Business.

Joseph H. Davis is the chief economist and head of the economic strategy group at the Vanguard Group, where he helps formulate the outlook for the economy and fixed income markets. Mr. Davis is frequently quoted in the financial press on macroeconomic trends and has published numerous studies on a variety of investment and economic issues in leading journals. He has presented his research at various business and academic seminars, including Harvard University and the Federal Reserve Board. In 2004 Mr. Davis was selected as a faculty research fellow by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Kenneth P. Green studies public policy with respect to air pollution and climate change, energy and the environment, transportation and the environment, and environmental chemicals as a resident scholar at AEI. His work includes analysis of Canadian environmental policy. He has authored numerous policy studies, newspaper and magazine articles, several encyclopedia entries and book chapters, and a textbook for middle-school students titled Global Warming: Understanding the Debate (Enslow Publishers, 2002). Mr. Green has worked on both U.S. and Canadian policy, first at California's Reason Foundation, then for nearly three years at British Columbia's Fraser Institute.

Marc D. Weidenmier is the William Podlich Associate Professor of Economics and the director of the Lowe Institute of Political Economy at Claremont McKenna College. His most recent research examines the effects of increased domestic energy production on reducing the negative effects of oil shocks on economic activity. Mr. Weidenmier is also a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Economic History and is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He has published in leading economic journals including the American Economic Review, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Financial Economics, Economic Journal, and the Journal of Economic History.