BPEA Spring 2023 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 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.
Agenda
DAY ONE
Thursday, March 30
Where Are the Missing Workers?
Authors: Katharine Abraham and Lea Rendell (University of Maryland)
Stephanie Aaronson
Senior Associate Director, Division of Research and Statistics - Federal Reserve Board
Former Vice President and Director - Economic Studies
Yongseok Shin
Douglass C. North Distinguished Professor in Economics - Washington University in St. Louis
Economic Implications of the Climate Provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act
Authors: John Bistline (Electric Power Research Institute), Neil Mehrotra (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis) and Catherine Wolfram (Harvard University)
Jason Furman
Former Brookings Expert
Aetna Professor of the Practice of Economic Policy - Harvard University
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Peterson Institute for International Economics
Panel: Emerging Market Challenges
“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)
Kenneth Rogoff
Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics - Harvard University
Former Brookings Expert
Recent Development in the Banking Sector
(Discussion but no papers)
Jeremy Stein
Department Chair; Moise Y. Safra Professor of Economics - Harvard University
Daniel K. Tarullo
Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy
DAY TWO
Friday, March 31
COVID Credit Policies Around the World: Size, Scope, Costs and Consequences
Authors: Gee Hee Hong (International Monetary Fund) and Deborah Lucas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
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
Carmen Reinhart
Former Senior Vice President & Chief Economist - World Bank Group
Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System - Harvard Kennedy School
Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing?
And if so, why? And what is next?
Authors: Pinelopi Goldberg (Yale University) and Tristan Reed (World Bank Development Research Group)
The Health Wedge and Labor Market Inequality
Authors: Amy Finkelstein (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Casey McQuillan (Princeton University), Owen Zidar (Princeton University) and Eric Zwick (University of Chicago)
Sir Angus Deaton
Senior Scholar and Dwight D. Eisenhower Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Emeritus - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
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