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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