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13th Annual Conference
Master Class by Professor Matteo Maggiori

 

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21
May
2026
Thursday
Venue: Tanglin I to III, Level 2
Conrad Singapore Orchard, 1 Cuscaden Rd, Singapore 249715



Program is subjected to change. Updated on 28 Jan 2026.

Speakers

  • Professor Matteo MAGGIORI

    Professor Matteo MAGGIORI

     

    Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution; Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, William H. Abbott Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Senior Fellow and Exco Member, ABFER

    Steven Davis is the Thomas W. and Susan B. Ford Senior Fellow and Director of Research at the Hoover Institution, senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and distinguished service professor emeritus at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is an NBER research associate, IZA research fellow, senior academic fellow with the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economics Research, adviser to the Monetary Authority of Singapore, visiting scholar at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, senior adviser to the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, and an elected fellow of the Society of Labor Economists. He hosts Economics, Applied, a bi-monthly podcast series sponsored by the Hoover Institution.

    In addition to his scholarly work, Davis has written for the Atlantic, Bloomberg View, Financial Times, Forbes, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and other popular media. He has appeared on BBC, Bloomberg TV, CGTN, Channel News Asia, CNBC, CNN, Fox News, NBC Network News, Sinclair Broadcast Group, and the U.S. Public Broadcasting System.

  • Professor Andrew K. ROSE

    Professor Andrew K. ROSE

     

    , ABFER

    Andrew K. Rose has been serving as Dean and distinguished professor of the National University of Singapore's Business School from June 1, 2019.

    Andrew K. Rose is B.T. Rocca Jr. Professor Emeritus of International Business in the Economic Analysis and Policy Group, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

    He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (based in Cambridge, MA), a Research Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (based in London, England), and a Senior Fellow of the Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research (based in Singapore). He received his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his M.Phil. from Nuffield College, University of Oxford, and his B.A. from Trinity College, University of Toronto.

    Rose has published over one hundred and fifty papers, including a hundred articles in refereed economics journals such as the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Review of Economic Studies, and the Journal of Finance. His research addresses issues in international trade, finance, and macroeconomics, and has received more than 50,000 citations. His teaching is in the areas of international macroeconomics; he has won two teaching awards.

    He served as Berkeley-Haas Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Chair of the Faculty 2010-2016, and was the managing editor of The Journal of International Economics 1995-2001. He was the founding director of the Clausen Center for International Business and Policy at Haas and the Risk Management Institute at the National University of Singapore. He has organized over fifty academic conferences.

    Rose is interested in the theory and practice of economic policy; most of his work is applied and driven by "real world" international phenomena. A citizen of three countries, he has worked on six continents and at a number of international economic agencies, including: the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank. He has also worked at a number of national agencies, including: the US Department of Treasury, HM Treasury (UK), the Canadian Department of Finance; and the central banks of: Australia, Barbados, Canada, England, Europe, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Spain, and the United States. He has visited a number of other universities, including Cape Town, EUI, FUB, INSEAD, Keio, London School of Economics, Melbourne, NUS, Princeton, SHUFE, SMU, Stockholm, Tel Aviv, Tsinghua, ULB, and Victoria.

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Session Format

90 minutes lecture followed by 30 minutes Q&A.