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BPEA Spring 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 Spring 2022 BPEA conference will be held March 24-25, 2022 by Brookings’s Economic Studies program. The conference proceedings are open to anyone who wish to observe the vanguard of economic thought around global economic issues.

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Agenda

DAY ONE
Thursday, March 24

From this Session

Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality

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Authors: Alina Bartscher (Danmarks Nationalbank); Moritz Kuhn (University of Bonn); Moritz Schularick (Sciences Po Paris and University of Bonn); and Paul Wachtel (New York University Stern School of Business)

Discussant

Benjamin Moll

Professor of Economics - London School of Economics and Political Science

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Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Women

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Author: Claudia Goldin (Harvard University)

Discussant

Jane Olmstead-Rumsey

Former Visiting Scholar - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

Assistant Professor of Economics - London School of Economics

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Cryptocurrencies and Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

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Authors: Igor Makarov (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Antoinette Schoar (MIT Sloan School of Management)

 

* Discussant Gary Gorton is The Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management. He was a co-founder and board member of the TNB USA Inc. (“The Narrow Bank”), which was a Connecticut-based depository institution. The views expressed in the comment are those of the discussant, and do not necessarily reflect those of Yale School of Management.

Discussant

Gary B. Gorton

Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor of Management & Professor of Finance - Yale School of Management

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DAY TWO
Friday, March 25

From this Session

Panel: Fiscal Policy and Budget Deficits Following the Pandemic

Panelist

N. Gregory Mankiw

Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics - Harvard University

Panelist

Carmen Reinhart

Former Senior Vice President & Chief Economist - World Bank Group

Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System - Harvard Kennedy School

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The Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure (SEPM): A New Method for Measuring Poverty

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Authors: John Fitzgerald (Bowdoin College) and Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University)

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Kathryn Edin

William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs - Princeton University

Discussant

H. Luke Shaefer

Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan

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What Have They Been Thinking? Homebuyer Behavior in Hot and Cold Markets – A Ten-Year Retrospect

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Authors: Robert Shiller (Yale School of Management) and Anne Kinsella Thompson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

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Adam Guren

Associate Professor of Economics - Boston University

Discussant

Joseph Gyourko

Nancy A. Nasher and David Haemisegger Director of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center - The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania

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