(Reuters) – Following is the agenda for Friday’s Jackson Hole Economic Policy Symposium, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and being held virtually for a second year due to COVID-19.
All times are U.S. Eastern:
10:00 (1400 GMT) WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION
ESTHER L. GEORGE, President and Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
OPENING REMARKS
JEROME H. POWELL, Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
10:30 (1430 GMT) MONETARY POLICY AND UNEVEN SHOCKS
AUTHOR: VERONICA GUERRIERI, Professor, University of Chicago
DISCUSSANT: JING CYNTHIA WU, Associate Professor, University of Notre Dame
10:55 (1455 GMT) GENERAL DISCUSSION
11:15 (1515 GMT) FISCAL POLICY AND UNEVEN SHOCKS
AUTHOR: PIERRE-OLIVIER GOURINCHAS, Professor, University of California – Berkeley
DISCUSSANT: VALERIE A. RAMEY, Professor, University of California – San Diego
11:40 (1540 GMT) GENERAL DISCUSSION
12:00 (1600 GMT) THE INTERACTION OF FISCAL AND MONETARY POLICY
PANELIST: ALAN BLINDER, Professor, Princeton University
PANELIST: GITA GOPINATH, Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department, International Monetary Fund
PANELIST: ERIC LEEPER, Professor, University of Virginia
12:45 (1645 GMT) GENERAL DISCUSSION
13:00 (1700 GMT) ADJOURNMENT
14:00 (1800 GMT) REMARKS
DONALD KOHN, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
14:30 (1830 GMT) THE COVID SHOCK AND AN UNEVEN LABOR MARKET
AUTHOR: AYŞEGÜL ŞAHIN, Professor, University of Texas – Austin
DISCUSSANT: BETSEY STEVENSON, Professor, University of Michigan
14:55 (1855 GMT) GENERAL DISCUSSION
15:15 (1915 GMT) LOW INTEREST RATES AND AN UNEVEN ECONOMY
AUTHOR: AMIR SUFI, Professor, University of Chicago
DISCUSSANT: FATIH GUVENEN, Professor, University of Minnesota
15:40 (1940 GMT) GENERAL DISCUSSION
16:00 (2000 GMT) MONETARY POLICY IN AN UNEVEN ECONOMY
PANELIST: MARKUS K. BRUNNERMEIER, Professor, Princeton University
PANELIST: KRISTIN J. FORBES, Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PANELIST: MAURICE OBSTFELD, Professor, University of California – Berkeley
16:45 (2045 GMT) GENERAL DISCUSSION
17:00 (2100 GMT) ADJOURNMENT
(Reporting by U.S. economics team)
