SOMC 2016 Spring Meeting

Presents…

the SHADOW OPEN MARKET COMMITTEE (SOMC) Meeting:

“Policy Priorities For Turbulent Times”

April 29, 2016 | New York City


Panel 1: Global Interactions—China, Europe, and the World

Rules-Based Policies—Better than International Central Bank Coordination
Michael Bordo, Rutgers University

Communist Rule and China’s Macroeconomic Adjustment Problem
Marvin Goodfriend, Carnegie Mellon University

The Fed-ECB Policy Divergence
Athanasios Orphanides, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

Panel 2: The Fed and the Markets

Moderator: Gregory Hess, Wabash College

Why Has Nominal Income Growth Been So Slow?
Peter Ireland, Boston College

Rethinking Fed Policy amid Constraints on Aggregate Supply
Mickey Levy, Berenberg Capital Markets

Reflections on Keynes and Hamilton
Bennett McCallum, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Keynote Address

Introduction: Mickey Levy, Berenberg Capital Markets

What’s the matter with the Fed?
Peter Fisher, Senior Fellow, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College and former Under Secretary, U.S. Treasury