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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 Spring 2022 BPEA conference will be held March 24-25, 2022 by Brookings’s Economic Studies program. The conference proceedings are open to anyone who wish to observe the vanguard of economic thought around global economic issues.
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Agenda
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March 24
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DAY ONE
Thursday, March 24 -
Monetary Policy and Racial Inequality
1:00 pm - 2:10 pm
Authors: Alina Bartscher (Danmarks Nationalbank); Moritz Kuhn (University of Bonn); Moritz Schularick (Sciences Po Paris and University of Bonn); and Paul Wachtel (New York University Stern School of Business)
Discussant
William “Sandy” Darity Samuel DuBois Cook Distinguished Professor of Public Policy - Duke University @SandyDarity
Benjamin Moll Professor of Economics - London School of Economics and Political Science -
Understanding the Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Women
2:20 pm - 3:30 pm
Discussant
Stefania Albanesi Professor Of Economics - University of Pittsburgh
Jane Olmstead-Rumsey Former Visiting Scholar - Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Assistant Professor of Economics - London School of Economics -
Cryptocurrencies and Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
3:40 pm - 4:50 pm
Authors: Igor Makarov (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Antoinette Schoar (MIT Sloan School of Management)
* Discussant Gary Gorton is The Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor of Finance at the Yale School of Management. He was a co-founder and board member of the TNB USA Inc. (“The Narrow Bank”), which was a Connecticut-based depository institution. The views expressed in the comment are those of the discussant, and do not necessarily reflect those of Yale School of Management.
Discussant
Gary B. Gorton Frederick Frank Class of 1954 Professor of Management & Professor of Finance - Yale School of Management
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DAY TWO
Friday, March 25 -
Panel: Fiscal Policy and Budget Deficits Following the Pandemic
10:00 am - 11:10 am
Panelist
N. Gregory Mankiw Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics - Harvard University
Carmen Reinhart Former Senior Vice President & Chief Economist - World Bank Group, Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the International Financial System - Harvard Kennedy School
Phillip Swagel Director - Congressional Budget Office -
The Supplemental Expenditure Poverty Measure (SEPM): A New Method for Measuring Poverty
11:20 am - 12:30 pm
Authors: John Fitzgerald (Bowdoin College) and Robert Moffitt (Johns Hopkins University)
Discussant
Kathryn Edin William Church Osborn Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs - Princeton University
H. Luke Shaefer Hermann and Amalie Kohn Professor of Social Justice and Social Policy - Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach Nonresident Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, The Hamilton Project @dwschanz -
What Have They Been Thinking? Homebuyer Behavior in Hot and Cold Markets – A Ten-Year Retrospect
12:50 pm - 2:00 pm
Authors: Robert Shiller (Yale School of Management) and Anne Kinsella Thompson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Discussant
Adam Guren Associate Professor of Economics - Boston University
Joseph Gyourko Nancy A. Nasher and David Haemisegger Director of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center - University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School
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