Income Inequality Issues and Policy Options

A symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
August 27-29, 1998

• Foreword
  THOMAS M. HOENIG
  President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

• The Contributors

• Symposium Summary

• Opening Remarks
  ALAN GREENSPAN
  Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

• The Distribution of Income in Industrialized Countries
  A.B. ATKINSON, Warden
  Nuffield College, Oxford University

• Commentary
  LAWRENCE F. KATZ, Professor
  Harvard University

• Commentary
  IGNAZIO VISCO, Head
  Economics Department, OECD

• General Discussion

• Causes of Changing Earnings Inequality
  DENNIS J. SNOWER, Professor
  Birbeck College, University of London

• Commentary
  ROBERT Z. LAWRENCE, Professor
  Harvard University

• Commentary
  KEVIN MURPHY, Professor
  University of Chicago

• General Discussion

• Monetary Policy and the Well-Being of the Poor
  CHRISTINA D. ROMER, Professor
  University of California, Berkeley
  DAVID H. ROMER, Professor
  University of California, Berkeley

• Commentary

• General Discussion

• Economic Consequences of Income Inequality
  JASON FURMAN
  JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ, Senior Vice President
  The World Bank

• Commentary
  HORST SIEBERT, President
  Kiel Institute of World Economics

• General Discussion

• How Can Economic Policy Strike A Balance Between Economic Efficiency and Income Equality?
  ASSAR LINDBECK, Professor
  Institute for International Economic Studies, Stockholm University

• Commentary
  LAURA D'ANDREA TYSON, Dean
  Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley

• General Discussion

Overview Panelists

• MARTIN FELDSTEIN, President
  National Bureau of Economic Research
• MERVYN KING, Deputy Governor
  Governor, Bank of England

• General Discussion

• The Participants

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