Papers from the August 2005 Jackson Hole symposium

A Symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, 25-27 August 2005. Times are shown where known.

Note: The Kansas Fed have not yet now posted the agenda or any and papers from their annual economic symposium on their website. I reconstructed the agenda below based on Brad DeLong's helpful post, Reuters, the Federal Reserve website and other sources. I will add links to papers as they are posted on various websites. I have also written to the academic paper givers and requested a copy of their papers. Could any reader who has an official agenda or paper please email them to me! Times shown are based on the Reuters economic diary; I cannot vouch for their accuracy.

The Greenspan Era: Lessons for the Future

Friday August 26
Chair: Roger Ferguson (FRB)

1000 EDT/1400 GMT: Alan Greenspan (FRB): "Reflections on Central Banking."

Alan Blinder (Princeton) and Ricardo Reis (Princeton): "Understanding the Greenspan Standard" (PDF).
Discussants: Alan Meltzer (Carnegie-Mellon): [No paper yet];
John B Taylor (Stanford): [No paper yet].

Robert E Hall (Stanford): "Separating the Business Cycle from Other Economic Fluctuations" (PDF download)
1115 EDT/1515 GMT: Discussants: Charles Bean (Bank of England): Comments on Bob Hall's paper (PDF);
Greg Mankiw (Harvard): [No paper yet].

Sebastian Edwards (UCLA): "The End of Large Current Account Deficits" (PDF);
Discussants: Barry Eichengreen (Berkeley), Catherine L Mann (IIE).

Robert Rubin (Citigroup): [No paper yet, but see this Reuters report and Mark Thoma post].

Saturday August 27
Chair: Malcolm Knight (BIS)

Raghuram Rajan (IMF): "Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier?" (PDF);
Discussants: Donald Kohn (FRB): "Remarks by Governor Donald L. Kohn";
Hyun Song Shin (Nuffield, LSE).

Michael Woodford (Princeton), "Central-Bank Communication and Policy Effectiveness" (PDF);
Discussant: Tiff Macklem (Bank of Canada): [No paper yet].

1245 EDT/1645 GMT: "Monetary Policy Strategies: A Central Bank Panel" with
Kazumasa Iwata (Bank of Japan): [No paper yet];
Mervyn King (Bank of England): "Remarks to the Central Bank Governors’ Panel" (PDF);
Jean-Claude Trichet (ECB): "Monetary Policy and 'Credible Alertness" .

1330 EDT/1730 GMT: Alan Greenspan (FRB): "Concluding Remarks".

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