The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) is a research organization committed to scholarship that helps address the real-world challenges facing governments and businesses in the United States and around the world. SIEPR’s goal is to raise living standards and improve the quality of life by making economic policy more effective at all levels. We do this by building enduring relationships between Stanford scholars and decisionmakers in business, technology, and government. Through SIEPR, Stanford faculty members have become advisors in policy areas ranging from health care and education to trade and financial regulation. Our reach is global. For example, SIEPR scholars have helped shape Medicare and Social Security, made the banking system more accessible to the rural poor in India, and designed innovative electronic markets on the Internet.
SIEPR Mission
SIEPR carries out research on critical economic policy issues in the United States and around the world. Our goal is to provide private and public sector leaders high-quality economic analysis that can guide their decisions and make policy more effective. We also seek to attract new generations of scholars to economic policy analysis and give Stanford junior faculty, graduate students, and undergraduates the highest standards of education, training, and support.
