Speakers included Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Bank for International Settlements General Manager Jaime Caruana, Kansas City Fed President Esther George, as well as professors and central bank governors.

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Foreword
Esther L. George
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

The Contributors

Symposium Introduction

Opening Remarks 
Ben S. Bernanke
Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

The ''Big C'': Identifying and Mitigating Contagion

Author:
Kristin J. Forbes
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
Franklin Allen
Professor
University of Pennsylvania

General Discussion

The Dog and the Frisbee

Author:
Andrew G. Haldane
Executive Director, Financial Stability
Bank of England Discussants:

José De Gregorio
Professor
Universidad de Chile

Eswar S. Prasad
Professor
Cornell University
Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution

General Discussion

Methods of Policy Accommodation at the Interest-Rate Lower Bound

Author:
Michael Woodford
Professor
Columbia University

Discussant:
Adam S. Posen
Senior Fellow
Peterson Institute for International Economics
External Member, Monetary Policy Committee
Bank of England

General Discussion

Policymaking in an Interconnected World

Luncheon Address:
Jaime Caruana
General Manager
Bank for International Settlements

General Discussion

Redistributive Monetary Policy

Authors:
Markus K. Brunnermeier
Professorz
Princeton University

Yuliy Sannikov
Professor, Princeton University

Discussant:
Amir Sufi
Professor
University of Chicago

General Discussion

The United States Labor Market: Status Quo or a New Normal?

Authors:
Edward P. Lazear
Professor
Stanford University
Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution

James R. Spletzer
Principal Economist
U.S. Census Bureau

Discussant:
Athanasios Orphanides
Senior Fellow
Center for Financial Studies

General Discussion

Global Policy Perspectives

Panelists:
Zeti Akhtar Aziz
Governor
Central Bank of Malaysia

Alan S. Blinder
Professor
Princeton University

Stanley Fischer
Governor
Bank of Israel

General Discussion

Roster of Attendees