Conference on the Historical Lessons for Monetary and Fiscal Policy
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Date:
Friday, March 29th – Saturday, March 30th
Location:
Kellogg Global Hub
2211 Campus Drive, Room 1410
Evanston, IL 60208
Friday, March 29
Session 1
Kris Mitchener (Santa Clara): “How do Financial Crises Redistribute Risk?” with Angela Vossmeyer
Paul Schmelzing (Boston College): TBA
Keynote Address
Catherine Schenk (Oxford): “Moving Money: Redesigning the Global Payments System 1969-99”
Special Session: Book Talk
Stephen Quinn (TCU): “How a Ledger Became a Central Bank: A Monetary History of the Bank of Amsterdam” with William Roberds
Session 4
Matthijs Korevaar (Erasmus): “Shocking Wealth: The Long-Term Impact of Housing Wealth Taxation”
Session 5
Stephan Luck (NY Fed): “The Debt-Inflation Channel of the German Hyperinflation”
Panel Discussion
“The Past and Future of the Federal Reserve”
Panelists: Jonathan Rose (Chicago Fed), Robert Hetzel (Richmond Fed), Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern)
Moderator: Carola Frydman (Northwestern)
Saturday, March 30
Special Session
Carola Frydman (Northwestern): “Historical Banking Crises: What do we know? What can we learn?”
Session 8
Kaspar Zimmermann (Frankfurt SOM): “Survival of the Biggest: Large Banks and Crises since 1870”
Session 9
Rui Esteves (Geneva): “The Aftermath of Sovereign Debt Crises: A Narrative Approach”
Keynote Address
Barry Eichengreen (UC Berkeley): “A Financial Crisis Foretold?”
Session 11
Matt Baron (Cornell): “Slow-moving banking crises”
Session 12
Chenzi Xu (Stanford): “The Great Depression Bank Deregulation Wave”
If you have any questions about this event, please email kayla.johnson@northwestern.edu