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- October 18, 2012
Payments Exchange: Kansas City
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Promising Pathways to Wealth-Building Financial Services
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- November 1, 2012
Evening at the Fed
Financial Stability and Macroeconomic Policy
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| Foreword THOMAS M. HOENIG President, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City | |
| Opening Remarks | BEN S. BERNANKE Chairman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
| The Origins and Nature of Financial Crises | |
| Author: | RICARDO J. CABALLERO Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Paper: | The "Surprising" Origin and Nature of Financial Crises: A Macroeconomic Policy Proposal |
| Discussant: | KENNETH S. ROGOFF Professor, Harvard University |
| General Discusssion | |
| Financial Crises and Economic Activity | |
| Authors: | STEPHEN G. CECCHETTI Economic Adviser and Head of the Monetary and Economic Department, Bank for International Settlements |
| CHRISTIAN UPPER Head of Financial Markets, Bank for International Settlements | |
| Paper: | Financial Crises and Economic Activity |
| Discussant: | MARK GERTLER Professor, New York University |
| General Discussion | |
| Policies to Stabilize Financial Markets | |
| Panelists: | CHARLES GOODHART Professor, London School of Economics |
| BRIAN F. MADIGAN Director, Division of Monetary Affairs, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | |
| JEAN-CHARLES ROCHET Professor, University of Toulouse | |
| General Discussion | |
| Luncheon Address | STANLEY FISCHER Governor, Bank of Israel |
| General Discussion | |
| Monetary Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity | |
| Author: | CARL E. WALSH Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz |
| Paper: | Using Monetary Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity |
| Discussant: | MARK J. CARNEY Governor, Bank of Canada |
| General Discussion | |
| Fiscal Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity | |
| Authors: | ALAN J. AUERBACH Professor, University of California, Berkeley |
| WILLIAM G. GALE Vice President and Director, Economic Studies, The Brookings Institution | |
| Paper | Activist Fiscal Policy to Stabilize Economic Activity |
| Discussants: | R. GLENN HUBBARD Dean, Columbia Business School, Columbia University |
| KLAUS SCHMIDT-HEBBEL Professor, Catholic University of Chile | |
| General Discusson | |
| The International Policy Response to Financial Crises | |
| Panelists: | JAIME CARUANA General Manager, Bank for International Settlements |
| MASAAKI SHIRAKAWA Governor, Bank of Japan | |
| JEAN-CLAUDE TRICHET President, European Central Bank | |
| General Discussion | |
| Roster of Attendees | |
