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36th Annual Monetary Conference: Welcoming Remarks and Keynote Address: On Money, Debt, Trust, and Central Banking
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      Featuring
      George Selgin
      George Selgin

      Senior Fellow and Director Emeritus, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute
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      Lydia Mashburn

      Former Managing Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives

      Jeb Hensarling
      Jeb Hensarling

      Economics Fellow, Cato Institute; Former Chairman, House Financial Services Committee

      Phil Gramm

      Former Chairman, Senate Banking Committee

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      Claudio Borio

      Head of the Monetary and Economic Department, Bank for International Settlements

      Josh Zumbrun
      Stephen D. Williamson
      Peter Ireland
      Tobias Adrian

      Financial Counselor, Director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund

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      Vincent R. Reinhart

      Chief Economist and Macro Strategist at Dreyfus-Mellon

      Ylan Mui
      Michael D. Bordo
      Joseph E. Gagnon
      John A. Allison Cropped
      John A. Allison

      Former President and CEO; Chair, Executive Advisory Council, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute

      Jeffrey M. Lacker
      Scott Sumner cropped
      Scott Sumner

      George Mason University

      Jeffrey Frankel

      Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis, we are again facing the possibility of economic turmoil as the Fed and other central banks exit their unconventional monetary policies. Although central banks will move gradually, unforeseen circumstances could trigger a flight to safety and a collapse of asset prices.


      Schedule

      8:30 — 9:00AM REGISTRATION
      9:00 — 9:10AM WELCOMING REMARKS

      Peter Goettler
      President and CEO, Cato Institute

      9:10 — 9:50AM KEYNOTE ADDRESS: ON MONEY, DEBT, TRUST AND CENTRAL BANKING

      Claudio Borio
      Head, Monetary and Economic Department, Bank for International Settlements

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      9:50 — 11:00AM PANEL 1: THE NEW OPERATING FRAMEWORK: AN EVALUATION

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      Moderator: Josh Zumbrun
      National Economics Correspondent, Wall Street Journal

      Stephen D. Williamson
      Professor and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Chair in Central Banking, University of Western Ontario

      George Selgin
      Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, CatoInstitute

      Peter Ireland
      Professor of Economics, Boston College

      11:00 — 11:30AM BREAK
      11:30AM — 12:40PM PANEL 2: UNCONVENTIONAL MONETARY POLICY, INTEREST RATES, AND ASSET PRICES

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      Moderator: James A. Dorn
      Vice President for Monetary Studies, Cato Institute

      Tobias Adrian
      Financial Counsellor and Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, International Monetary Fund

      Vincent Reinhart
      Managing Director, Chief Economist, and Macro Strategist, BNY Mellon Asset Management North America

      Lawrence H. White
      Professor of Economics, George Mason University

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      12:40 — 1:30PM LUNCHEON
      1:30 — 2:30PM LUNCHEON ADDRESS: MONETARY HEADWINDS 10 YEARS AFTER THE CRISIS

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      Hon. Phil Gramm, Former Chairman, Senate Banking Committee

      With an introduction by Rep. Jeb Hensarling, Chairman, House Financial Services Committee

      2:30 — 3:40PM PANEL 3: LESSONS LEARNED

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      Moderator: Ylan Mui, CNBC, Washington Correspondent

      Michael D. Bordo
      Director, Center for Monetary and Financial History, Rutgers University

      Joseph E. Gagnon
      Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

      David Beckworth
      Senior Research Fellow and Director, Monetary Policy Project, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

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      3:40 — 4:00PM BREAK
      4:00 — 5:00PM ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: SHOULD THE FED BE SUBJECT TO A MONETARY RULE?

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      Moderator: Lydia Mashburn
      Managing Director, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute

      Jeffrey M. Lacker
      Distinguished Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University

      Scott Sumner
      Ralph G. Hawtrey Chair of Monetary Policy and Senior Research Fellow, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

      Jeffrey A. Frankel
      James W. Harpel Professor of Capital Formation and Growth, Kennedy School, Harvard University

      John A. Allison
      Professor of Practice, Wake Forest University; Chairman, Center for Monetary and Financial Alternatives, Cato Institute

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      5:00 — 6:00PM RECEPTION

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