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
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Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality
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)
William “Sandy” Darity
Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy - Duke University
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Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Women
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)
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.
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
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
Authors: John Fitzgerald (Bowdoin College) and Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University)
Kathryn Edin
William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs - Princeton University
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
Authors: Robert Shiller (Yale School of Management) and Anne Kinsella Thompson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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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