This year's symposium was conducted online. The proceedings were livestreamed on the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's External LinkYouTube channel. All times listed below are in the Central Time Zone.
Materials for the symposium, during which participants discuss economic issues, implications and policy options, will be posted as they are available.
Click here to learn more about the theme of this year's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. To learn more about the symposium's history read PDFIn Late August.
Agenda
Aug. 27, 2020
Program Kick-Off
Host:
Esther L. George
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
Moderator Welcome
Chair:
Susan M. Collins
Provost
University of Michigan
Opening Remarks
Featured Speaker:
Jerome H. Powell | PDFRemarks
Chair
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Why Has The Trend Rate Of Growth Declined?
Author: Ufuk Akcigit | PDFPaper
Professor
University of Chicago
Discussant: Gauti B. Eggertsson | PDFRemarks
Professor
Brown University
General Discussion
Why Are Interest Rates So Low?
Author:
Laura Veldkamp | PDFPaper
Professor
Columbia University
Discussant:
Kenneth Rogoff | PDFRemarks
Professor
Harvard University
General Discussion
Crisis Management in the COVID-19 Economic Shutdown
Panelists:
Philip R. Lane | PDFRemarks
Member of the Executive Board
European Central Bank
Tiff Macklem | PDFRemarks
Governor
Bank of Canada
Tharman Shanmugaratnam | PDFRemarks
Chairman
Monetary Authority of Singapore
General Discussion
Adjournment
Aug. 28, 2020
Moderator Welcome
Chair:
Kristin J. Forbes
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Opening Remarks
Andrew Bailey | PDFRemarks
Governor
Bank of England
Micro Uncertainty and Policy Uncertainty
Author:
Nicholas Bloom | PDFPaper
Professor
Stanford University
Discussant:
Janice C. Eberly | PDFRemarks
Professor
Northwestern University
General Discussion
Expectations and Monetary Policy
Author:
Yuriy Gorodnichenko | PDFPaper
Professor
University of California-Berkeley
Discussant:
George-Marios Angeletos | PDFRemarks
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
General Discussion
Post-Pandemic Monetary Policy and the Effective Lower Bound (ELB)
Panelists:
Laurence Boone | PDFRemarks
Chief Economist
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Jordi Galí | PDFRemarks
Professor
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Michael Woodford | PDFRemarks
Professor
Columbia University