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Past Event
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 Fall 2023 BPEA conference will be held September 28-29, 2023 hosted by Brookings’s 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 Spring 2024 conference will be held March 28-29, 2024.
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Discussants
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Authors: Richard Baldwin (IMD Business School), Rebecca Freeman (Bank of England), and Angelos Theodorakopoulos (Aston Business School)
Discussants
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Authors: Şebnem Kalemli-Özcan (University of Maryland) and Filiz Unsal (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
Discussants
8:30 am - 9:45 am
Authors: Ryan Decker (Federal Reserve Board) and John Haltiwanger (University of Maryland)
Discussants
10:00 am - 11:15 am
Authors: Guido Lorenzoni (University of Chicago) and Iván Werning (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Discussants
11:30 pm - 12:45 pm
Authors: Benjamin Moll (London School of Economics), Moritz Schularick (Kiel Institute for the World Economy), and Georg Zachmann (Bruegel)
Discussants
Hanna Love, Thea Sebastian
July 16, 2024
2024
AEI, Washington DC
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm EDT
Tom Wheeler
July 16, 2024