Materials for the symposium, during which participants discuss economic issues, implications and policy options, are posted in the program agenda below. All times listed below are in the Central Time Zone.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s remarks were livestreamed at External Linkwww.YouTube.com/KansasCityFed. A printable version of the agenda is available PDFhere. Learn more about the theme of this year's event here. To learn about the symposium's history read External LinkIn Late August.

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Agenda

Day 1:

Morning Session

Chair:
Janice Eberly
Professor
Northwestern University

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Speakers:
Esther L. George | PDFWelcome Remarks
President and Chief Executive Officer
Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

PDFContributors
PDFSummary

Jerome H. Powell | PDFRemarks
Chair
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Monetary Policy and Uneven Shocks

Author:
Veronica Guerrieri | PDFPaper
Professor
University of Chicago

Discussant:
Jing Cynthia Wu | PDFRemarks
Associate Professor
University of Notre Dame

General Discussion

Fiscal Policy and Uneven Shocks

Author:
Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas | PDFPaper
Professor
University of California – Berkeley

Discussant:
Valerie Ramey | PDFRemarks
Professor
University of California – San Diego

General Discussion

The Interaction of Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Panelists:
Alan Blinder | PDFRemarks
Professor
Princeton University

Gita Gopinath | PDFRemarks
Economic Counsellor and Director of the Research Department
International Monetary Fund

Eric Leeper | PDFRemarks
Professor
University of Virginia

General Discussion

Adjournment of Morning Session

Afternoon Session

Chair:
Lisa D. Cook
Professor
Michigan State University

Remarks

Speaker:
Donald Kohn | PDFRemarks
Senior Fellow
Brookings Institution

General Discussion

The Covid Shock and an Uneven Labor Market

Author:
Ayşegül Şahin | PDFPaper
Professor
University of Texas – Austin

Discussant:
Betsey Stevenson | PDFRemarks
Professor
University of Michigan

General Discussion

Low Interest Rates and an Uneven Economy

Author:
Amir Sufi | PDFPaper
Professor
University of Chicago

Discussant:
Fatih Guvenen | PDFRemarks
Professor
University of Minnesota

General Discussion

Monetary Policy in an Uneven Economy

Panelists:
Markus Brunnermeier | PDFPresentation
Professor
Princeton University

Kristin Forbes | PDFRemarks
Professor
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Maurice Obstfeld | PDFRemarks
Professor
University of California – Berkeley

General Discussion

Adjournment of Afternoon Session