Brookings Papers on Economic Activity

September 2009 Conference 

Attendance at conferences of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity is by invitation only.

Heading Daedalus: Optimal Inflation and the Zero Lower Bound
Authors: John Williams, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Discussant:

Michael Woodford, Columbia University

The Age of Reason: Financial Decisions over the Life-Cycle with Implications for Regulation
Authors:

Sumit Agarwal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, John Driscoll, Federal Reserve Board, Xavier Gabaix, New York University, and David Laibson, Harvard University

Discussants: Giovanni Dell'Ariccia, International Monetary Fund, and Karen Pence, Federal Reserve Board
An Interpretation of the Unconventional U.S. Monetary-Policy Response to the 2007-09 Crisis
Author: Ricardo Reis, Columbia University
Discussants: Timothy Besley, London School of Economics, and Donald Kohn, Federal Reserve Board
By How Much Does GDP Rise If the Government Buys More Output?
Authors:

Robert Hall, Stanford University

Discussants:

Alan Auerbach, University of California, Berkeley, and Christopher House, University of Michigan

When the North Heads South: The World in Crisis
Author: Carmen Reinhart, University of Maryland, and Vincent Reinhart, American Enterprise Institute
Discussants: Gita Gopinath, Harvard University, and Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago