Join Us for the 28th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference
This year’s Minsky conference will be a one-day affair, featuring keynote speakers that include St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, former PIMCO chief economist Paul McCulley (now Senior Fellow at Cornell Law), and First Vice President of the Minneapolis Fed, Ron Feldman.
The Levy Institute’s Jan Kregel will be discussing reform of the eurozone system; Michalis Nikiforos will be presenting the upcoming strategic analysis for the US economy (using the Institute’s stock-flow model); and L. Randall Wray will be presenting on “Paying for a Green New Deal.”
Financial Stability, Economic Policy, and Economic Nationalism
A conference organized by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard CollegeLevy Economics Institute of Bard College
Blithewood
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York 12504April 17, 2019
Registration for the conference is now open. The preliminary program is attached below the fold. Further details are available here.
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
| 8:30−9:00 a.m. | Registration |
| 9:00−9:15 a.m. | Welcome and Introduction |
| Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, President, Levy Institute | |
| 9:15−10:45 a.m. | Session 1. OUTLOOK FOR REFORM OF THE EURO SYSTEM |
| MODERATOR: | |
| SPEAKERS: Panicos Demetriades, Professor of Financial Economics, University of Leicester; formerly, Governor, Central Bank of Cyprus | |
| Lex Hoogduin, Chairman LCH Ltd. and SA; Professor of Complexity and Uncertainty, University of Groningen | |
| Jan Kregel, Director of Research, Levy Institute | |
| 10:45 a.m.−12:30 p.m. | Session 2. DOMESTIC FINANCIAL POLICY |
| MODERATOR: | |
| SPEAKERS: Seth B. Carpenter, Managing Director and Chief U.S. Economist, UBS | |
| Michael Greenberger, Professor, School of Law, and Director, Center for Health and Homeland Security, University of Maryland | |
| Daniel Alpert, Managing Partner, Westwood Capital, LLC | |
| L. Randall Wray, Senior Scholar, Levy Institute; Professor of Economics, Bard College | |
| 12:30−1:30 p.m. | SPEAKER: James Bullard, President and CEO, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| “Title TBD” | |
| 1:30−2:45 p.m. | Lunch |
| 2:45−3:45 p.m. | SPEAKER: Ron Feldman, First Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
| “Title TBD” | |
| 3:45−5:15 p.m. | Session 3. US ECONOMIC OUTLOOK |
| MODERATOR: | |
| SPEAKERS: Michalis Nikiforos, Research Scholar, Levy Institute | |
| Catherine L. Mann, Global Chief Economist, Citibank | |
| Lakshman Achuthan, Co-founder and Chief Operations Officer, Economic Cycle Research Institute | |
| 5:15−6:30 p.m. | Session 4. US FINANCIAL FRAGILITY OUTLOOK |
| MODERATOR: | |
| SPEAKERS: Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia University | |
| Frank Veneroso, President, Veneroso Associates, LLC | |
| 6:30−8:00 p.m. | Dinner |
| SPEAKER: Paul McCulley, Senior Fellow, Financial Macroeconomics, Cornell Law School; formerly, Chief Economist and Managing Director, PIMCO | |
| “Title TBD” |
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