U.S. Economy
Hutchins Center Fiscal Impact Measure
Session 1 – Why Do We Dislike Inflation?
Session 2 – The Impact of Vaccines and Behavior on US Cumulative Deaths from COVID 19
Session 3 – Sustained Debt Reduction The Jamaica Exception
Session 4 – Changing Central Bank Pressures and Inflation
Session 5 – The emergence of a Uniform Business Cycle in the United States
Session 6 – The Evolution of Banking in the 21st Century
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 2024 BPEA Conference was held March 28-29, 2024 hosted by Brookings’ 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 2024 conference will be held September 26-27, 2024.
Agenda
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March 28
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DAY ONE: Thursday, March 28
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Why Do We Dislike Inflation?
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Discussants
Yuriy Gorodnichenko Quantedge Presidential Professor at the Department of Economics - University of California - Berkeley -
The Impact of Vaccines and Behavior on US Cumulative Deaths from COVID-19
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Authors: Andrew Atkeson (University of California, Los Angeles) and Stephen Kissler (University of Colorado Boulder)
Discussants
Thomas Philippon Max L. Heine Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business - New York University @ThomasPHI2
Coady Wing Associate Professor, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Health - Indiana University @coady_wing -
Sustained Debt Reduction: The Jamaica Exception
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Authors: Serkan Arslanalp (International Monetary Fund), Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley), and Peter Blair Henry (Stanford University, Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute)
Discussants
Laura Alfaro Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration - Harvard Business School
Emil Verner Associate Professor, Finance - MIT Sloan School of Management -
DAY TWO: Friday, March 29
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Changing Central Bank Pressures and Inflation
8:30 am - 9:45 am
Authors: Hassan Afrouzi (Columbia University), Marina Halac (Yale University), Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University), and Pierre Yared (Columbia Business School)
Discussants
Silvana Tenreyro Member, Monetary Policy Committee - Bank of England, Professor in Economics - London School of Economics -
The Emergence of a Uniform Business Cycle in the United States: Evidence from New Claims-Based Unemployment Data
10:00 am - 11:15 am
Authors: Andrew Fieldhouse (Texas A&M University), Sean Howard (Independent), Christoffer Koch (Empirical Research Partners), and David Munro (Middlebury College)
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Steven J. Davis William H. Abbott Professor of International Business and Economics - The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Marianna Kudlyak Research Advisor - Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco -
The Evolution of Banking in the 21st Century: Evidence and Regulatory Implications
11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Authors: Samuel Hanson (Harvard Business School), Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School), Laura Nicolae (Harvard University), Jeremy Stein (Harvard University), Adi Sunderam (Harvard Business School), and Daniel Tarullo (Harvard Law School)
Discussants
Arvind Krishnamurthy John S. Osterweis Professor of Finance - Stanford Graduate School of Business, Senior Fellow - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Raghuram Rajan Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance - University of Chicago
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