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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.
Download the conference agenda here.
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Agenda
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September 9
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The Employment Impact of a Green Fiscal Push: Evidence from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Authors: Ziqiao Chen (Syracuse University); Giovanni Marin (University of Urbino Carlo Bo); David Popp (Syracuse University); and Francesco Vona (OFCE Sciences-Po)
Discussant
Valerie A. Ramey Senior Fellow - Hoover Institution, Stanford University -
The Economic Gains from Equity
11:05 am - 12:05 pm
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
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 @ErikHurst -
Government and Private Household Debt Relief During COVID-19
12:10 pm - 1:10 pm
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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Pascal Noel Assistant Professor of Finance - University of Chicago Booth School of Business @pascaljnoel
Susan Wachter Albert Sussman Professor of Real Estate - The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania -
The Social Cost of Carbon: Advances in Long-Term Probabilistic Projections of Population, GDP, Emissions, and Discount Rates
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
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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Mar Reguant Associate Professor - Northwestern University -
Losing the Inflation Anchor
3:05 pm - 4:05 pm
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Alan Blinder Visiting Fellow - Economic Studies
Yuriy Gorodnichenko Quantedge Presidential Professor at the Department of Economics - University of California - Berkeley -
On the Persistence of the China Shock
4:10 pm - 5:10 pm
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
Edward Glaeser Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics - Harvard University
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