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Past Event

BPEA Fall 2021 conference

Presented by The Brookings Institution

Past Event

The Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (BPEA) is a semi-annual academic conference and journal that pairs rigorous research with real-time policy analysis to address the most urgent economic challenges of the day.

The Fall 2021 BPEA conference was a one-day, virtual event on Thursday, September 9, hosted by Brookings’s Economic Studies program. While BPEA conferences are usually small, invitation-only gatherings, the Brookings Institution opened its proceedings to anyone who wished to observe the vanguard of economic thought around global economic issues.

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Agenda

The Employment Impact of a Green Fiscal Push: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Authors: Ziqiao Chen (Syracuse University); Giovanni Marin (University of Urbino Carlo Bo); David Popp (Syracuse University); and Francesco Vona (OFCE Sciences-Po)

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The Economic Gains from Equity

Authors: Shelby Buckman (Stanford University), Laura Choi (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco), Mary Daly (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco), and Lily Seitelman (Boston University)

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Nicole Fortin

Professor - University of British Columbia

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Erik Hurst

Frank P. and Marianne R. Diassi Distinguished Service Professor of Economics - Booth School of Business, University of Chicago

Deputy Director - Becker Friedman Institute

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Government and Private Household Debt Relief During COVID-19

Authors: Susan Cherry (Stanford Graduate School of Business); Erica Jiang (University of Southern California); Gregor Matvos (Northwestern University); Tomasz Piskorski (Columbia Business School); and Amit Seru (Stanford Graduate School of Business)

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Susan Wachter

Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate - The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania

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The Social Cost of Carbon: Advances in Long-Term Probabilistic Projections of Population, GDP, Emissions, and Discount Rates

Authors: David Anthoff (University of California, Berkeley); Roger Cooke (Resources for the Future); Frank Errickson (Princeton University); Cora Kingdon (University of California, Berkeley); Richard Newell (Resources for the Future); Billy Pizer (Resources for the Future); Brian Prest (Resources for the Future); Lisa Rennels (University of California, Berkeley); Adrian Raftery (University of Washington); Kevin Rennert (Resources for the Future); and Hana Ševčíková (University of Washington) 

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Losing the Inflation Anchor

Author: Ricardo Reis (London School of Economics and Political Science)

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Alan Blinder

Gordon S. Rentschler Memorial Professor of Economics - Princeton University

Former Brookings Expert

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Yuriy Gorodnichenko

Quantedge Presidential Professor at the Department of Economics - University of California - Berkeley

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On the Persistence of the China Shock

Authors: David Autor (Massachusetts Institute of Technology); David Dorn (University of Zurich); and Gordon Hanson (Harvard Kennedy School)

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Marianne Bertrand

Professor of Economics - University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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Edward Glaeser

Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics - Harvard University

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