PROGRAM |
| THURSDAY, APRIL 19 |
| 9:00–10:00 a.m. |
BREAKFAST AND REGISTRATION |
| 10:00–10:45 a.m. |
WELCOME AND INTRODUCTION |
“Global
Imbalances: The U.S. and the Rest of the World”
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, The Levy Economics
Institute
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| 11:00 a.m.–12:45 p.m. |
SESSION 1 – THE STATE OF THE
U.S. AND WORLD ECONOMIES |
Moderator: Dimitri
B. Papadimitriou, The Levy Economics Institute
Speakers:
“Monitoring Windows of Vulnerability,
or, How to Stop Crying Wolf”
Lakshman Achuthan, Economic
Cycle Research Institute
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“Financiers Gone Wild: Entering
a Minsky Moment for the U.S. Household Sector”
Robert W. Parenteau, RCM
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| 12:45–2:30 p.m. |
LUNCH |
“Can the European
Economy Decouple from the U.S.?”
Speaker: Wolfgang Munchau, Financial
Times |
| 2:45–4:15 p.m. |
SESSION 2 – MONETARY POLICY IN THE
U.S. ECONOMY |
Moderator: Greg
Hannsgen, The Levy Economics Institute
Speakers:
“Lessons
from the Great Inflation and Disinflation”
Torsten Slok, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.
“Four
Global Asset Price Bubbles in Twenty Years—A Historic
Anomaly or the Wave of the Future?”
Robert Z. Aliber, University of Chicago
|
| 4:15–4:45 p.m. |
COFFEE BREAK |
| 4:45–6:15 p.m. |
SESSION 3 – FINANCIAL INSTABILITY
IN A GLOBAL ECONOMY |
Moderator: W.
Ray Towle, The Levy Economics Institute
Speakers:
“From the Glut of Savings
to the Glut of Dollars”
Korkut Ertürk, The Levy Economics
Institute and University of Utah
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“Mutual Economic Policy Interests
and Global Imbalances: Developed and
Developing Countries in a Globally Integrated Trade and Financial
System”
Jan A. Kregel, The Levy Economics
Institute and University of Missouri–Kansas
City
“Stabilizing the Unstable
Economy, Revisited: Extending Minsky’s Analysis to the Open
Economy”
L. Randall Wray, The Levy Economics
Institute and University of Missouri–Kansas
City
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| 6:30–7:15 p.m. |
RECEPTION |
| 7:15 p.m. |
DINNER |
| FRIDAY, APRIL 20 |
| 9:00–9:30 a.m. |
BREAKFAST |
| 9:30–10:15 a.m. |
“The
Cult of Zero”
Speaker: James K. Galbraith, The
Levy Economics Institute and University of Texas at
Austin |
| 10:30 a.m.–12:15 p.m. |
SESSION 4 – THE MACROECONOMIC PROSPECTS
FOR THE U.S. ECONOMY |
Moderator: Ajit
Zacharias, The Levy Economics Institute
Speakers:
“Economic and
Financial Market Outlook”
James W. Paulsen, Wells Capital Management
“Who Is the Heir Apparent
to Alan Greenspan? Hu Indeed!”
Robert J. Barbera, ITG
“The 2007–2008 Outlook...Growth
without the Steroids”
James E. Glassman, J. P. Morgan Securities,
Inc.
|
| 12:15–2:00 p.m. |
LUNCH |
“The U.S. Economic
Outlook”
Speaker: Frederic S. Mishkin, Federal
Reserve Board
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