Upcoming Event
November
17
2026
Federal Fiscal & Tax Policy
Strengthening the resilience and liquidity of the US Treasury market
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 2024 BPEA Conference was held on September 26-27, 2024, hosted by Brookings Economic Studies program. The conference proceedings were open to anyone who wishes to observe the vanguard of economic thought around global economic issues.
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The Spring 2025 conference will be held March 27-28, 2025; and the Fall 2025 conference on September 25-26, 2025.
Agenda
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September 26
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DAY ONE: Thursday, September 26
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Symposium on Federal Reserve's Monetary Policy Framework Review
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Final papers and summary of conference discussion»
Challenges Around the Fed’s Monetary Policy Framework and Its Implementation
Authors: William English (Yale School of Management) and Brian Sack (Balyasny Asset Management)Considerations for a Post-Pandemic Monetary Policy Framework
Author: Charles Evans (University of Chicago Clark Center)Did the Federal Reserve’s 2020 Policy Framework Limit Its Response to Inflation? Evidence and Implications for the Framework Review
Authors: Christina Romer and David Romer (University of California, Berkeley)Authors
William B. English Eugene F. Williams, Jr. Professor of the Practice - Yale School of Management
Brian Sack Head of Macro Strategy - Balyasny Asset Management
Charles L. Evans Visiting Senior Research Associate - Kent A Clark Center for Global Markets, Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Christina D. Romer Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Professor of the Graduate School; Class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor Emerita of Economics; Chancellor's Professor Emerita - University of California, Berkeley
David H. Romer Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Herman Royer Professor Emeritum in Political Economy; Professor of the Graduate School; Chancellor's Professor Emeritum - University of California, Berkeley -
Dynamic Scoring: A Progress Report on Why, When, and How
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Authors
Douglas Elmendorf Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
Glenn Hubbard Dean Emeritus; Russell L. Carson Professor of Finance and Economics - Columbia Business School
Heidi Williams Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy @heidilwilliams_Discussants
G. William Hoagland Senior Vice President - Bipartisan Policy Center
Deborah Lucas Sloan Distinguished Professor of Finance - Massachusetts Institute of Technology -
The Economic Impacts of Clean Power
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Authors
Costas Arkolakis Professor of Economics - Yale University
Conor Walsh Assistant Professor of Business - Columbia Business SchoolDiscussants
Koichiro Ito Associate Professor - University of Chicago
Neil R. Mehrotra Assistant Vice President and Policy Advisor - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis @neilmehrotra -
DAY TWO: Friday, September 27
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Robust Fiscal Stabilization
8:30 am - 9:45 am
Authors
Alan J. Auerbach Robert D. Burch Professor of Economics and Law - Economics Department, UC-Berkeley, Director - Robert D. Burch Center for Tax Policy and Public Finance
Danny Yagan Associate Professor of Economics - UC-BerkeleyDiscussants
William G. Gale The Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Chair in Federal Economic Policy, Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center
Valerie A. Ramey Senior Fellow - Hoover Institution, Stanford University -
u* = √uv: The Full-Employment Rate of Unemployment in the United States
10:00 am - 11:15 am
Authors
Pascal Michaillat Associate Professor of Economics - University of California, Santa Cruz
Emmanuel Saez Professor of Economics - University of California-Berkeley, Director - Center for Equitable GrowthDiscussants
Hie Joo Ahn Principal Economist - Federal Reserve Board
Bart Hobijn Senior Economist and Economic Advisor - Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago -
The Economics of Sanctions: From Theory Into Practice
11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Authors
Oleg Itskhoki Professor of Economics - Harvard University
Elina Ribakova Peterson Institute for International Economics - Nonresident Senior FellowDiscussants
Rory MacFarquhar Chief Economist - Gemsstock
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