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Past Event
Session 1 – Why Do We Dislike Inflation?
Session 2 – The Impact of Vaccines and Behavior on US Cumulative Deaths from COVID 19
Session 3 – Sustained Debt Reduction The Jamaica Exception
Session 4 – Changing Central Bank Pressures and Inflation
Session 5 – The emergence of a Uniform Business Cycle in the United States
Session 6 – The Evolution of Banking in the 21st Century
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 2024 BPEA Conference was held March 28-29, 2024 hosted by Brookings’ 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 Fall 2024 conference will be held September 26-27, 2024.
1:00 pm - 2:15 pm
Discussants
2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Authors: Andrew Atkeson (University of California, Los Angeles) and Stephen Kissler (University of Colorado Boulder)
Discussants
4:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Authors: Serkan Arslanalp (International Monetary Fund), Barry Eichengreen (University of California, Berkeley), and Peter Blair Henry (Stanford University, Hoover Institution and Freeman Spogli Institute)
Discussants
8:30 am - 9:45 am
Authors: Hassan Afrouzi (Columbia University), Marina Halac (Yale University), Kenneth Rogoff (Harvard University), and Pierre Yared (Columbia Business School)
Discussants
10:00 am - 11:15 am
Authors: Andrew Fieldhouse (Texas A&M University), Sean Howard (Independent), Christoffer Koch (Empirical Research Partners), and David Munro (Middlebury College)
Discussants
11:30 am - 12:45 pm
Authors: Samuel Hanson (Harvard Business School), Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School), Laura Nicolae (Harvard University), Jeremy Stein (Harvard University), Adi Sunderam (Harvard Business School), and Daniel Tarullo (Harvard Law School)
Discussants
Alice Cho, Robert E. Litan
April 21, 2023
2023
1:00 pm - 12:45 pm EDT
2022
1:00 pm - 12:45 pm EDT