This year's symposium was conducted online. The proceedings were livestreamed on the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's External LinkYouTube channel. All times listed below are in the Central Time Zone.

Materials for the symposium, during which participants discuss economic issues, implications and policy options, will be posted as they are available.

Click here to learn more about the theme of this year's Jackson Hole Economic Symposium. To learn more about the symposium's history read In Late August.

Agenda

Day 1:

Program Kick-Off

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

Welcome Remarks

Contributors

Summary

Moderator Welcome

Chair:
Susan M. Collins
Provost
University of Michigan

Opening Remarks

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Featured Speaker:
Jerome H. Powell | Remarks
Chair
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Why Has The Trend Rate Of Growth Declined?

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Author: Ufuk Akcigit | Paper 
Professor
University of Chicago

Discussant: Gauti B. Eggertsson | Remarks
Professor
Brown University

General Discussion

Discussion

Why Are Interest Rates So Low?

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Author: 
Laura Veldkamp | Paper
Professor
Columbia University

Discussant:
Kenneth Rogoff | Remarks
Professor
Harvard University

General Discussion

Discussion

Crisis Management in the COVID-19 Economic Shutdown

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Panelists: 
Philip R. Lane | Remarks
Member of the Executive Board
European Central Bank

Tiff Macklem | Remarks
Governor
Bank of Canada

Tharman Shanmugaratnam | Remarks
Chairman
Monetary Authority of Singapore

General Discussion

Adjournment

Discussion

Day 2:

Moderator Welcome

Chair:
Kristin J. Forbes
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Opening Remarks

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Andrew Bailey | Remarks
Governor
Bank of England

Micro Uncertainty and Policy Uncertainty

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    Location:
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Author:
Nicholas Bloom |​ Paper
Professor
Stanford University

Discussant:
Janice C. Eberly | Remarks
Professor
Northwestern University

General Discussion

Discussion

Expectations and Monetary Policy

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Author:
Yuriy Gorodnichenko |​ Paper
Professor
University of California-Berkeley

Discussant:
George-Marios Angeletos | Remarks
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

General Discussion

Discussion

Post-Pandemic Monetary Policy and the Effective Lower Bound (ELB)

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Panelists:
Laurence Boone | Remarks
Chief Economist
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Jordi Galí | Remarks
Professor
Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Michael Woodford | Remarks
Professor
Columbia University

General Discussion

Discussion

Concluding Remarks

Adjournment

Roster of Attendees