This year's symposium was conducted online. The proceedings were livestreamed on the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's YouTube 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.
Thursday, August 27, 2020 |
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8 a.m. |
Program Kick-Off | Watch remarks |
| Host: | Esther L. George |
| President and Chief Executive Officer | |
| Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City | |
8:05 a.m. |
Moderator Welcome |
| Chair: | Susan M. Collins |
| Provost | |
| University of Michigan | |
8:10 a.m. |
Opening Remarks | Watch remarks |
| Featured Speaker: | Jerome H. Powell | Remarks |
| Chair | |
| Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System | |
8:55 a.m. |
Why Has The Trend Rate Of Growth Declined? | Watch session |
| Author: | Ufuk Akcigit | Paper | Materials |
| Professor |
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| University of Chicago | |
| Discussant: | Gauti B. Eggertsson | Remarks | Discussion materials |
| Professor | |
| Brown University | |
9:15 a.m. |
General Discussion |
9:35 a.m. |
Why Are Interest Rates So Low? | Watch session |
| Author: | Laura Veldkamp | Paper | Materials |
| Professor | |
| Columbia University | |
| Discussant: | Kenneth Rogoff | Remarks | Discussion materials |
| Professor | |
| Harvard University | |
9:55 a.m. |
General Discussion |
10:15 a.m. |
Crisis Management in the COVID-19 Economic Shutdown | Watch panel |
| Panelists: | Philip R. Lane | Remarks | Materials |
| Member of the Executive Board |
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| European Central Bank |
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| Tiff Macklem | Remarks |
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| Governor |
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| Bank of Canada | |
| Tharman Shanmugaratnam | Remarks |
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| Chairman | |
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Monetary Authority of Singapore |
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10:45 a.m. |
General Discussion |
11:10 a.m. |
Adjournment |
Friday, August 28, 2020 |
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8:00 a.m |
Moderator Welcome |
| Chair: | Kristin J. Forbes |
| Professor |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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8:05 a.m. |
Opening Remarks | Watch remarks |
| Andrew Bailey | Remarks |
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| Governor |
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| Bank of England | |
8:40 a.m. |
Micro Uncertainty and Policy Uncertainty | Watch session |
| Author: | Nicholas Bloom | Paper | Materials |
| Professor | |
| Stanford University |
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| Discussant: | Janice C. Eberly | Remarks | Discussion materials |
| Professor | |
| Northwestern University | |
9:00 a.m. |
General Discussion |
9:20 a.m. |
Expectations and Monetary Policy | Watch session |
| Author: | Yuriy Gorodnichenko | Paper | Materials |
| Professor | |
| University of California-Berkeley | |
| Discussant: | George-Marios Angeletos | Remarks | Discussion materials |
| Professor | |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
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9:40 a.m. |
General Discussion |
10:00 a.m. |
Post-Pandemic Monetary Policy and the Effective Lower Bound (ELB) | Watch panel |
| Panelists: | Laurence Boone | Remarks | Materials |
| Chief Economist | |
| Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development |
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| Jordi Galí | Remarks | Materials |
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| Professor | |
| Universitat Pompeu Fabra |
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| Michael Woodford | Remarks | Materials |
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| Professor | |
| Columbia University | |
10:30 a.m. |
General Discussion |
10:55 a.m. |
Concluding Remarks |
11:00 a.m. |
Adjournment |
Portions of the program have been pre-recorded.
