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Event Economics Monetary Policy

SOMC: The Fed’s Inflation Challenge

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Friday April 2022

AGENDA:

WELCOMING REMARKS
Allison Schrager, Manhattan Institute

PANEL I: INFLATION REDUX
Moderator: Michael Bordo, Rutgers University
Mickey Levy, Berenberg Capital Markets, “Inflation, Labor Markets and the Fed’s Dual Mandate”
Andrew Levin, Dartmouth College, “Quantitative Tightening: Constraints, Costs and Risks”
Peter Ireland, Boston College, “The Continuing Case for Nominal GDP Targeting”

DISCUSSION AND Q&A
SOMC discussion with comments by Charles Calomiris and Gregory Hess on Inflationary Expectations and Appropriate Responses to Supply Shocks

PANEL II: DISCUSSION WITH FORMER FOMC MEMBERS
Moderator: Athanasios Orphanides, MIT
Bill Dudley, Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Jeffrey Lacker, Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Charles Plosser, Former President, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

CONCLUDING REMARKS