Is Financial Reregulation Holding Back Finance for the Global Recovery?
Organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College with support from the Ford Foundation
The National Press Club
Washington, D.C.
April 15–16, 2015
The 2015 Minsky Conference will address, among other issues, the design, flaws, and current status of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, including implementation of the operating procedures necessary to curtail systemic risk and prevent future crises; the insistence on fiscal austerity exemplified by the recent pronouncements of the new Congress; the sustainability of the US economic recovery; monetary policy revisions and central bank independence; the deflationary pressures associated with the ongoing eurozone debt crisis and their implications for the global economy; strategies for promoting an inclusive economy and a more equitable income distribution; and regulatory challenges for emerging market economies.
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Participants
Lakshman Achuthan
Co-Founder and Chief Operations Officer, Economic Cycle Research Institute
Daniel Alpert
Managing Partner, Westwood Capital, LLC
Robert J. Barbera
Co-director, Center for Financial Economics, The Johns Hopkins University
Lael Brainard*
Member, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
James Bullard
President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Vítor Constâncio
Vice President, European Central Bank
Scott Fullwiler
Professor of Economics and James A. Leach Chair in Banking and Monetary Economics, Wartburg College
Michael Greenberger
Professor, School of Law, and Director, Center for Health and Homeland Security, The University of Maryland
Bruce Greenwald
Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia University
Thomas Hoenig
Vice Chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Jan Kregel
Senior Scholar, Levy Institute, and Professor, Tallinn University of Technology
Paul McCulley
Perry Mehrling
Professor of Economics, Barnard College
Patricia Mosser
Deputy Director, Research and Analysis Center, Office of Financial Research, US Department of the Treasury
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
President, Levy Institute
D. Nathan Sheets*
Under Secretary for International Affairs, US Department of the Treasury
Gillian Tett*
US Managing Editor, Financial Times
Paul Tucker
Senior Fellow, Harvard Business School
Éric Tymoigne
Research Associate, Levy Institute, and Professor of Economics, Lewis & Clark College
Elizabeth Warren
US Senator (D-MA)
Maxine Waters*
US Representative (D-CA, 43)
L. Randall Wray
Senior Scholar, Levy Institute, and Professor, University of Missouri–Kansas City
* Invited
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