Materials for the symposium, during which participants discuss economic issues, implications and policy options, are available below. To learn more about the symposium's history read In Late August.
Thursday, August 27, 2015 | |
6 p.m. | Opening Reception and Dinner |
| Host: | Esther George |
| President and Chief Executive Officer | |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City | |
Friday, August 28, 2015 | |
| Chair: | James Poterba |
| Professor | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| President | |
| National Bureau of Economic Research | |
8 a.m. | Inflation Dynamics Through Firms’ Pricing Behavior |
| Authors: | Simon Gilchrist - Paper | Handout |
| Professor | |
| Boston University | |
| Egon Zakrajsek - Paper | Handout | |
| Associate Director, Monetary Affairs | |
| Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | |
| Discussant: | Pete Klenow - Handout |
| Professor | |
| Stanford University | |
8:35 a.m. | General Discussion |
9 a.m. | International Aspects of Inflation Dynamics |
| Author: | Gita Gopinath - Paper | Handout |
| Professor | |
| Harvard University | |
9:45 a.m. | |
| Discussant: | Charles Engel |
| Professor | |
| University of Wisconsin | |
10 a.m. | General Discussion |
10:25 a.m. | Central Bank Perspectives on Inflation Dynamics |
| Panelists: | Thomas J. Jordan |
| Chairman of the Governing Board | |
| Swiss National Bank | |
| Athanasios Orphanides | |
| Professor | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |
| Rodrigo Vergara | |
| Governor | |
| Central Bank of Chile | |
11:25 a.m. | General Discussion |
12:40 p.m. | Luncheon Address |
| Speaker: | David Daokui Li |
| Professor | |
| Tsinghua University | |
2 p.m. | Adjournment |
Saturday, August 29, 2015 | |
| Chair: | Erica L. Groshen |
| Commissioner | |
| U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics | |
8 a.m. | Reinflation Challenges and the Inflation: Targeting Paradigm |
| Authors: | Jon Faust |
| Professor | |
| Johns Hopkins University | |
| Eric M. Leeper | |
| Professor | |
| Indiana University | |
| Discussant: | Takatoshi Ito |
| Professor | |
| Columbia University | |
8:35 a.m. | General Discussion |
9 a.m. | Inflation Dynamics During and After The Zero Lower Bound |
| Authors: | S. Borağan Aruoba |
| Associate Professor | |
| University of Maryland | |
| Frank Schorfheide | |
| Professor | |
| University of Pennsylvania | |
9:45 a.m. | |
| Discussant: | Lucrezia Reichlin |
| Professor | |
| London Business School | |
10 a.m. | General Discussion |
10:25 a.m. | Overview Panel: Global Inflation Dynamics |
| Panelists: | Mark Carney |
| Governor | |
| Bank of England | |
| Víctor Constâncio | |
| Vice President | |
| European Central Bank | |
| Stanley Fischer | |
| Vice Chairman | |
| Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | |
| Raghuram Rajan | |
| Governor | |
| Reserve Bank of India | |
11:45 a.m. | General Discussion |
2 p.m. | Adjournment |
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