Preliminary Program for the 25th Minsky Conference

Michael Stephens | March 24, 2016

The preliminary program has been posted for the 25th Annual Hyman Minsky Conference, being held April 12-13 here at Blithewood on the Bard College campus.

The deadline for registration is April 1st.

Tuesday, April 12

8:30−9:00 a.m. Registration
9:00−9:15 a.m. Welcome and Introduction
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, President, Levy Institute
9:15−10:30 a.m. Session 1. GLOBAL FRAGILITY AND EMERGING MARKETS OUTLOOK
MODERATOR: Theo Francis, Special Writer, The Wall Street Journal
SPEAKER: Jan Kregel, Senior Scholar, Levy Institute; Professor, Tallinn University of Technology
Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho, Senior Scholar, Levy Institute; Emeritus Professor of Economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
10:30 a.m. − 12:30 p.m. Session 2. COMMODITIES AND DERIVATIVES REGULATION
MODERATOR: Izabella Kaminska, Journalist, Financial Times
SPEAKERS: Michael Greenberger, Professor, School of Law, and Director, Center for Health and Homeland Security, The University of Maryland
Robert A. Johnson, President, Institute for New Economic Thinking; Senior Fellow and Director, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute
Michael Masters, Founder and Chairman of the Board, Better Markets
12:30−2:15 p.m. Lunch
SPEAKER: Robert J. Barbera, Codirector, Center for Financial Economics, The Johns Hopkins University
“Six Degrees of Separation: Why the Fed’s Strategy of Precautionary Unemployment Is Nutty”
2:15−4:45 p.m. Session 3. IS THE CURRENT CREDIT STRUCTURE CONDUCIVE TO FINANCIALLY STABLE RECOVERY?
MODERATOR: TBD
SPEAKERS: Henry Kaufman, President, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc.
Richard Berner, Director, Office of Financial Research, US Department of the Treasury
Martin L. Leibowitz, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley
Albert M. Wojnilower, Economic Consultant, Craig Drill Capital
4:45−6:45 p.m. Session 4. MINSKY, INEQUALITY, AND THE MONETARY/FISCAL POLICY OUTLOOK
MODERATOR: TBD
SPEAKERS: Viral V. Acharya, C. V. Starr Professor of Economics, New York University Stern School of Business
Scott Fullwiler, Professor of Economics and James A. Leach Chair in Banking and Monetary Economics, Wartburg College
Stephanie A. Kelton, Research Associate, Levy Institute; Chief Economist, US Senate Budget Committee; Professor, University of Missouri—Kansas City
6:45−7:15 p.m. Reception
7:15 p.m. Dinner

Wednesday, April 13

9:00−11:30 a.m. Session 5. US ECONOMIC OUTLOOK FORECAST
MODERATOR: Eduardo Porter, Columnist, The New York Times
SPEAKERS: Lakshman Achuthan, Cofounder and Chief Operations Officer, Economic Cycle Research Institute
Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia University
Michalis Nikiforos, Research Scholar, Levy Institute
Frank Veneroso, President, Veneroso Associates, LLC
11:30 a.m. − 1:30 p.m. Session 6. BANK REGULATION, TOO BIG TO FAIL, AND LIQUIDITY
MODERATOR: Peter Eavis, Reporter, The New York Times
SPEAKERS: Edward Kane, Professor of Finance, Boston College
Walker F. Todd, Trustee, American Institute for Economic Research
L. Randall Wray, Senior Scholar, Levy Institute; Professor of Economics, Bard College
1:30−3:15 p.m. Lunch
SPEAKER: Barney Frank, Former US Representative (D-MA, 4)
3:15−5:15 p.m. Session 7. EUROPEAN PERFORMANCE AND REGULATORY OUTLOOK
MODERATOR: TBD
SPEAKERS: Emilios Avgouleas, Chair, International Banking Law and Finance, School of Law, University of Edinburgh
Mario Tonveronachi, Professor of the Economics of Financial Systems, University of Siena
Loukas Tsoukalis, Pierre Keller Visiting Professor, Harvard University
5:15−7:00 p.m. SPEAKER: Vítor Constâncio, Vice President, European Central Bank
“A Challenging International Economic Environment for Central Banks”

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