Each fall and spring, the Brookings Institutions holds a conference with a set of papers from prominent economists on leading policy topics, with comments and discussion. The Fall 2024 conference happened last Thursday and Friday. You can go to the website and spend hours watching the whole thing, or you can pick and choose through the topics, and read over some of the conference discussion papers and comments. If you want to know why in Washington policy circles it seems as if “everyone knows” some economic fact or insight, the source of that common knowledge can, reasonably often, be tracked back to papers presented at BPEA. Here’s the agenda, with some links:
Symposium on Federal Reserve’s Monetary Policy Framework Review
“Challenges Around the Fed’s Monetary Policy Framework and Its Implementation,” by William English and Brian Sack
“Considerations for a Post-Pandemic Monetary Policy Framework,” by Charles Evans
“Did the Federal Reserve’s 2020 Policy Framework Limit Its Response to Inflation? Evidence and Implications for the Framework Review,” by Christina Romer and David Romer
“Dynamic Scoring: A Progress Report on Why, When, and How,” by Douglas Elmendorf, Glenn Hubbard, and Heidi Williams
“The Economic Impacts of Clean Power,” by Costas Arkolakis and Conor Walsh
“Robust Fiscal Stabilization,” by Alan Auerbach and Danny Yagan
“u* = √uv: The Full-Employment Rate of Unemployment in the United States,” by Pascal Michaillat and Emmanuel Saez
“The Economics of Sanctions: From Theory Into Practice,” by Oleg Itskhoki and Elina Ribakova
