Speakers included Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Bank for International Settlements General Manager Jaime Caruana, Kansas City Fed President Esther George, as well as professors and central bank governors.

To learn about the symposium's history read PDFIn Late August.

PDFForeword
Esther L. George
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

PDFThe Contributors

PDFSymposium Introduction

PDFOpening Remarks 
Ben S. Bernanke
Chairman
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

The ''Big C'': Identifying and Mitigating Contagion

Author:
PDFKristin J. Forbes
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Discussant:
PDFFranklin Allen
Professor
University of Pennsylvania

PDFGeneral Discussion

The Dog and the Frisbee

Author:
PDFAndrew G. Haldane
Executive Director, Financial Stability
Bank of England Discussants:

PDFJosé De Gregorio
Professor
Universidad de Chile

PDFEswar S. Prasad
Professor
Cornell University
Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution

PDFGeneral Discussion

Methods of Policy Accommodation at the Interest-Rate Lower Bound

Author:
PDFMichael Woodford
Professor
Columbia University

Discussant:
PDFAdam S. Posen
Senior Fellow
Peterson Institute for International Economics
External Member, Monetary Policy Committee
Bank of England

PDFGeneral Discussion

Policymaking in an Interconnected World

Luncheon Address:
PDFJaime Caruana
General Manager
Bank for International Settlements

PDFGeneral Discussion

Redistributive Monetary Policy

Authors:
PDFMarkus K. Brunnermeier
Professorz
Princeton University

PDFYuliy Sannikov
Professor, Princeton University

Discussant:
PDFAmir Sufi
Professor
University of Chicago

PDFGeneral Discussion

The United States Labor Market: Status Quo or a New Normal?

Authors:
PDFEdward P. Lazear
Professor
Stanford University
Senior Fellow
Hoover Institution

PDFJames R. Spletzer
Principal Economist
U.S. Census Bureau

Discussant:
PDFAthanasios Orphanides
Senior Fellow
Center for Financial Studies

PDFGeneral Discussion

Global Policy Perspectives

Panelists:
PDFZeti Akhtar Aziz
Governor
Central Bank of Malaysia

PDFAlan S. Blinder
Professor
Princeton University

PDFStanley Fischer
Governor
Bank of Israel

PDFGeneral Discussion

PDFRoster of Attendees