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.
To learn about the symposium's history read In Late August.
Foreword
Esther L. George
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
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
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
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
Policymaking in an Interconnected World
Luncheon Address:
Jaime Caruana
General Manager
Bank for International Settlements
Redistributive Monetary Policy
Authors:
Markus K. Brunnermeier
Professorz
Princeton University
Yuliy Sannikov
Professor, Princeton University
Discussant:
Amir Sufi
Professor
University of Chicago
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
Global Policy Perspectives
Panelists:
Zeti Akhtar Aziz
Governor
Central Bank of Malaysia
Alan S. Blinder
Professor
Princeton University
Stanley Fischer
Governor
Bank of Israel