Materials for this year's symposium, during which participants discuss economic issues, implications and policy options, will be posted as they are available. Times listed on the agenda are Mountain Standard Time. To learn more about the symposium's history read PDFIn Late August.
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Agenda
Day 1:
Opening Reception and Dinner
Host:
Esther L. George
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Day 2:
Opening Remarks
Chair:
Peter Blair Henry
Dean
Leonard N. Stern School of Business
New York University
Janet L. Yellen | PDFSpeech
Chair
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Adapting to Changes in the Financial Market Landscape
Authors:
Darrell Duffie | PDFPaper
Professor
Stanford University
Arvind Krishnamurthy | PDFPaper
Professor
Stanford University
Discussant:
Minouche Shafik - PDFRemarks
Deputy Governor
Markets and Banking
Bank of England
Negative Nominal Interest Rates
Author:
Marvin Goodfriend | PDFPaper
Professor
Carnegie Mellon University
Discussant:
Marianne Nessén - PDFRemarks
Head of Monetary Policy Department
Sveriges Riksbank
Evaluating Alternative Monetary Frameworks
Author:
Ulrich Bindseil | PDFPaper
Head of Directorate General Market Operations
European Central Bank
Discussants:
Jean-Pierre Danthine | PDFRemarks
President
Paris School of Economics
Simon Potter - PDFRemarks
Executive Vice President, Markets Group
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Luncheon Address
Christopher A. Sims | PDFPaper
Professor
Princeton University
Adjournment
Day 3:
Central Bank Balance Sheets and Financial Stability
Chair:
Kristin Forbes
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Authors:
Jeremy C. Stein | PDFPaper
Professor
Harvard University
Robin Greenwood | PDFPaper
Professor
Harvard University
Samuel G. Hanson | PDFPaper
Assistant Professor
Harvard University
Discussant:
Randall S. Kroszner | PDFRemarks
Professor
University of Chicago
The Structure of Central Bank Balance Sheets
Author:
Ricardo Reis | PDFPaper
Professor
Columbia University
Discussant
Laura L. Veldkamp | PDFPaper
Professor
New York University
Overview Panel
Panelists:
Agustín Carstens | PDFRemarks
Governor
Bank of Mexico
Benoít Coeuré | PDFRemarks
Member of the Executive Board
European Central Bank
Haruhiko Kuroda | PDFHandout
Governor
Bank of Japan