Do Changes in the Economic Landscape Require a New Policy Framework?

I am here today:

AGENDA

8:45 a.m. Welcoming Remarks and Introduction: John C. Williams, President, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

9:00 a.m. Speaker: Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard University
Interviewer: David Wessel, Brookings Institution

10:30 a.m. Robert E. Hall, Stanford UniversitUnderstanding the Decline in the Safe Real Interest Rate
Discussant: Martin S. Eichenbaum, Northwestern University

11:30 a.m. Pierre Olivier Gourinchas, University of California, Berkeley, Hélène Rey, London Business School Global Real Rates: a long-run approach
Discussant: Linda L. Tesar, University of Michigan

1:30 p.m. Gauti B. Eggertsson, Brown University, Neil R. Mehrotra, Brown University, Jacob A. Robbins, Brown University, A Quantitative Model of Secular Stagnation
Discussant: Andrea Ferrero, Oxford University

2:30 p.m. Noëmie Lisack, Bank of England, Rana Sajedi, Bank of England, Gregory Thwaites, Bank of England, Why Are Real Interest Rates So Low? The role of demographics
Discussant: Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan, University of Maryland

4:00 p.m. Moderator: Alan M. Taylor, University of California, Davis, Donald L. Kohn, Brookings Institution, Lawrence Schrembi, Bank of Canada, Sayuri Shirai, Asian Development Bank Institute
Monetary Policy in the 21st century: Lessons from Asia, Europe, and America. A panel discussion