

Past Event
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 2023 BPEA conference will be held March 30-31, 2023 hosted by Brookings’s Economic Studies program. The conference proceedings are open to anyone who wishes to observe the vanguard of economic thought around global economic issues.
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The Fall 2023 conference will be held September 28-29, 2023.
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
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2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Authors: John Bistline (Electric Power Research Institute), Neil Mehrotra (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) and Catherine Wolfram (Harvard University)
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4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
“India at 75: Replete with Contradictions, Brimming with Opportunities, Saddled with Challenges”
Author: Viral Acharya (New York University)
“Challenges to Disinflation: The Brazilian Experience”
Authors: Carlos Carvalho (Kapitalo Investimentos and PUC-Rio) and Fernanda Nechio (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco)
“Has China’s Growth Gone from Miracle to Malady?”
Author: Eswar Prasad (Cornell University and The Brookings Institution)
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8:30 am - 9:45 am
Authors: Gee Hee Hong (International Monetary Fund) and Deborah Lucas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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10:00 am - 11:15 am
Authors: Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University) and Tristan Reed (World Bank Development Research Group)
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11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Authors: Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Casey McQuillan (Princeton University), Owen Zidar (Princeton University) and Eric Zwick (University of Chicago)
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Maia Levy Daniel
February 13, 2025
Yun Sun
February 6, 2025
Indermit Gill, M. Ayhan Kose
January 27, 2025