The Exodus of Firms from California: Facts, Reasons, Solutions

PARTICIPANTS

Eleni Kounalakis, Lee Ohanian, John Taylor, Richard Anderson, Michael Bernstam, Steven Blitz, Luigi Bocola, Valentin Bolotnyy, Michael Bordo, Michael Boskin, John Cochrane, Rosanna Carvacho Elliot, Tom Church, Thomas Cooley, Chris Dauer, Steven Davis, Kathleen Dirickson, Katrina Dudley, Matthew Dumlao, Sebastian Edwards, Denise Elson, Christopher Erceg, Shana Farley, David Fedor, Andrew Filardo, Greg Gable, Gopi Goda, Tyler Goodspeed, Rick Hanushek, Adele Hayutin, Robert Hall, Robert Heller, Gregory Hess, Robert Hodrick, Nicholas Hope, Peter Ireland, Tim Kane, Steve Klosterman, Markos Kounalakis, Dick Kovacevich, Jeffrey Lacker, John Lipsky, Zheng Liu, Dennis Lockhart, Lilia Maliar, Jim Mattis, Michael Melvin, Roger Mertz, Scott Minerd, Lee Mitchell, Edward Nelson, Kana Norimoto, Robert Oster, David Papell, Elena Pastorino, N. Bruce Pickering, John Raisian, Josh Rauh, Evan Reade, Meghana Reddy, Manny Rincon-Cruz, Richard Rosenberg, Gregory Rosston, Josh Salcman, Allison Schrager, Pierre Siklos, Gabriel Sod Hoffs, Abraham Sofaer, Thomas Stephenson, Christine Strong, Derek Tang, Jack Tatom, Allyn Taylor, Glenn Tiffert, James Timbie, Eric Wakin, Carl Walsh, Mark Wynne

ISSUES DISCUSSED

Eleni Kounalakis, Lieutenant Governor of California and Lee Ohanian, Professor of Economics at UCLA and Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, presented and discussed “The Exodus of Firms from California: Facts, Reasons, Solutions.” John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the moderator.

Here is a copy of the written remarks of Lieutenant Governor Kounalakis and here is a copy of the slides of Professor Ohanian.


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