U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren, FDIC Vice Chairman Thomas M. Hoenig, St. Louis Fed President James Bullard, ECB Vice President Vitor Constancio, And Other Leading Economists And Policymakers To Attend Levy Economics Institute's 24th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, In Washington, D.C., April 15-16
WASHINGTON, April 10, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From April 15 to 16, the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College will gather top policymakers, economists, and analysts at the 24th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World Economies to discuss, among many issues, the impact of financial reform, the sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery, and the global implications of the eurozone debt crisis. The conference, "Is Financial Reregulation Holding Back Finance for the Global Recovery?," is being organized by the Levy Institute with support from the Ford Foundation, and takes place Wednesday and Thursday, April 15–16, at the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. The conference is free and open to the public. Registration is required. For more information, or to register, visit: http://www.levyinstitute.org/conferences/minsky2015.
Press registrations should be made by contacting Mark Primoff at 845-758-7412 or [email protected].
Participants include Thomas M. Hoenig, vice chairman, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; James Bullard, president, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; Vítor Constâncio, vice president, European Central Bank; U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA); Daniel Alpert, managing partner, Westwood Capital, LLC; Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia University; Lakshman Achuthan; cofounder and chief operations officer, Economic Cycle Research Institute; Paul Tucker, senior fellow, Harvard Business School; Paul McCulley, former chief economist, PIMCO; Deborah Solomon, news editor, The Wall Street Journal; Pedro Nicolaci da Costa, Federal Reserve and economics reporter, The Wall Street Journal; Jim Tankersley, economic policy correspondent, The Washington Post; and Sam Fleming, U.S. economics editor, Financial Times.
The 2015 Minsky Conference will address, among other issues, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act, including implementation of the operating procedures necessary to curtail systemic risk and prevent future crises; the insistence on fiscal austerity exemplified by recent pronouncements from the new Congress; the sustainability of the U.S. economic recovery; monetary policy revisions and central bank independence; the deflationary pressures associated with the eurozone debt crisis and their implications for the global economy; strategies for promoting an inclusive economy and a more equitable income distribution; and regulatory challenges for emerging market economies.
The conference will include presentations by Jan Kregel, senior scholar, Levy Institute, and professor, Tallinn University of Technology; Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, president, Levy Institute; Robert J. Barbera, codirector, Center for Financial Economics, Johns Hopkins University; Michael Greenberger, professor, School of Law, and director, Center for Health and Homeland Security, University of Maryland; Scott Fullwiler, professor of economics and James A. Leach Chair in Banking and Monetary Economics, Wartburg College; Perry G. Mehrling, professor of economics, Barnard College; Éric Tymoigne, research associate, Levy Institute, and professor of economics, Lewis & Clark College; and L. Randall Wray, senior scholar, Levy Institute, and professor, University of Missouri–Kansas City.
SOURCE Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
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