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Event Economics Monetary Policy

SOMC: Challenges for the Fed's Monetary and Regulatory Policies

11
Friday February 2022

Speakers

Christina Skinner The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania

AGENDA:

WELCOMING REMARKS
Allison Schrager, Manhattan Institute

PANEL I: RESTORING PRICE STABILITY: WHAT WENT WRONG AND HOW TO FIX IT
Moderator: Gregory Hess, IES Abroad
Michael Bordo, Rutgers University, "The Fed’s Tendency to Bungle Exits"
Andrew Levin, Dartmouth College, "Will the Fed Repeat the Mistakes of the Great Inflation?"
Mickey Levy, Berenberg Capital Markets, "The Challenges of Persistently High Inflation"
Deborah Lucas, MIT, "Why Today’s Inflation Is a Fiscal and Credit Policy Hangover"
Athanasios Orphanides, MIT, "How Should the Fed Correct the Course of Monetary Policy?"

PANEL II:  GOVERNING MONETARY POLICY
Moderator: Peter Ireland, Boston College
Christina Skinner, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, "Fed Activism, Populism and the Rule of Law"
Charles Calomiris, Columbia University, "Where Did Monetary Policy Come From and Where Is It Going?"

CONCLUDING REMARKS