The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) will host its annual Economic Summit on Friday, March 9, 2012, to discuss the leading issues of the year. Michael Boskin, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the T. M. Friedman Professor of Economics at Stanford University, will participate in the first session of the conference titled “Perspectives on Economic Policy and the Economy.” Session four, titled “An Institutional Approach to the End of Western Ascendancy,” features Niall Ferguson, Hoover senior fellow, the Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University, and noted author. Stephen Krasner, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, along with Nick Hope, director of the Stanford Center for International Development, will participate in one of the critical issue sections titled “US-China Economic Relations.”