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Agenda

Day 1:

Opening Reception and Dinner

Welcome Remarks

Contributors

Summary

Day 2:

Opening Remarks

Chair:
Janice C. Eberly
Professor
Northwestern University

Remarks
Jerome H. Powell
Chairman Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Monetary Policy Divergence

Alan M. Taylor | Paper
Professor
University of California-Davis

Òscar Jordà | Paper
Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Discussant: Kristin J. Forbes | Remarks
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

General Discussion

  • pdf presentation

Monetary Policy Spillovers to Advanced and Emerging Market Economies

Author:
Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan | Paper
Professor
University of Maryland

Discussant: 
Hélène Rey | Remarks
Professor
London Business School

General Discussion

  • pdf presentation

What Does It Mean to be a Data-Dependent Central Banker?

Author:
Athanasios Orphanides | Paper
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussants:
Frank R. Smets | Remarks
Director
General European Central Bank

Valerie A. Ramey | Remarks
Professor
University of California, San Diego

General Discussion

  • pdf presentation

Luncheon Address

  • pdf presentation

Mark Carney | Remarks
Governor
Bank of England

Adjournment

Day 3:

Responding to Commodity Price Shocks in an Era of Financialization

Chair:
Ilan Goldfajn
Former Governor
Central Bank of Brazil

Author:
Silvana Tenreyro | Paper
Professor
London School of Economics
External Member, Monetary Policy Committee
Bank of England

Discussant:
Wei Xiong | Paper
Professor
Princeton University

General Discussion

  • pdf presentation

Financial Markets

Authors:
Arvind Krishnamurthy | Paper
Professor
Stanford University

Hanno Lustig | Paper
Professor
Stanford University

Discussant:
Wenxin Du | Remarks
Assistant Professor 
University of Chicago

General Discussion

  • pdf presentation

Overview Panel

Panelists:
Gita Gopinath | Paper
Chief Economist
International Monetary Fund

Philip Lowe | Remarks
Governor
Reserve Bank of Australia

Amir Yaron | Remarks
Governor
Bank of Israel

General Discussion

  • pdf presentation

Adjournment

Roster of Attendees