BPEA Fall 2022 conference
Presented by The Brookings Institution
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 2022 BPEA conference was held September 8-9, 2022 hosted by Brookings’s Economic Studies program. The conference proceedings were open to anyone who wishes to observe the vanguard of economic thought around global economic issues. Download the conference agenda here» Submit a proposal to present at a future BPEA conference here»
The Spring 2023 conference will be held March 30-31, 2023.
Agenda
DAY ONE
Thursday, September 8
Understanding U.S. Inflation During the COVID Era
Authors: Laurence Ball (Johns Hopkins University), Daniel Leigh (International Monetary Fund) and Prachi Mishra (International Monetary Fund)
Jason Furman
Former Brookings Expert
Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy - Harvard University
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Peterson Institute for International Economics
Ayşegül Şahin
Richard J. Gonzalez Regents Chair in Economics - University of Texas at Austin
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Economic Impact Payments and Household Spending During the Pandemic
Authors: Jonathan Parker (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Jake Schild (Bureau of Labor Statistics), Laura Erhard (Bureau of Labor Statistics), and David Johnson (Director, Panel Study of Income Dynamics, ISR University of Michigan)
Karen Dynan
Professor of the Practice of Economics - Harvard University
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Peterson Institute for International Economics
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Measuring U.S. Fiscal Capacity Using Discounted Cash Flow Analysis
Authors: Zhengyang Jiang (Northwestern University), Hanno Lustig (Stanford Graduate School of Business), Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (Columbia Business School) and Mindy Z. Xiaolan (University of Texas at Austin)
William G. Gale
The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy
Senior Fellow - Economic Studies
Director - Retirement Security Project
Co-Director - Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Deborah Lucas
Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance - MIT Sloan School of Management
Director - MIT Golub Center for Finance and Policy
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DAY TWO
Friday, September 9
Panel: Shrinking the Federal Reserve Balance Sheet
Arvind Krishnamurthy
John S. Osterweis Professor of Finance - Stanford Graduate School of Business
Senior Fellow - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Sydney Ludvigson
Julius Silver, Roslyn S. Silver, and Enid Silver Winslow Professor of Economics - New York University
Co-Director - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Asset Pricing Program
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Working From Home Around the World
Authors: Cevat Giray Aksoy (European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and King’s College London), Jose Maria Barrero (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México), Nicholas Bloom (Stanford University), Steven J. Davis (Chicago Booth School of Business), Mathias Dolls (ifo Institute) and Pablo Zárate (Princeton University and Universidad de San Andrés)
Edward Glaeser
Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics - Harvard University
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The Global Dollar Cycle
Authors: Maurice Obstfeld (University of California, Berkeley) and Haonan Zhou (Princeton University)
Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan
Neil Moskowitz-Endowed Professor of Economics and Director of Center of International Economics - University of Maryland, College Park
Matteo Maggiori
Moghadam Family Professor and Professor of Finance - Stanford Graduate School of Business
Senior Fellow - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
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