March 22, 2012
Policy Seminar on Recent Trends in Intergenerational Income Mobility: Data and Theories
Guest Speaker: Dan Kessler (Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Professor, Stanford GSB and Stanford Law School, and by courtesy, of health research and policy in the Stanford School of Medicine) and Gary Becker (Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics and Sociology, University of Chicago)

March 15, 2012
Policy Seminar on What Financial System for the 21st Century?
Guest Speaker: Andrew Crockett (President JP Morgan Chase International, former President of the BIS)
Per Jacobsson Lecture

March 8, 2012
Policy Seminar on Review of the International Economy
Guest Speaker: John Lipsky (former First Deputy Managing Director of the IMF)

March 6, 2012
Policy Seminar on the Financial Crisis and the Impact of the Financial Reform
Guest Speaker: Jacob Frenkel (Chairman of JP Morgan Chase International, former Governor of the Bank of Israel)

February 4, 2012
Meeting of the Resolution Project

February 1, 2012
Policy Seminar on Income Distribution
Charts

January 13, 2012
A Symposium on the Need for Reform of the Federal Reserve
Guest Speakers: Michael Bordo, Allan Meltzer, George Shultz, and John Taylor
Could the United States Have had a Better Central Bank? : An Historical Counterfactual Speculation (Michael Bordo)
Federal Reserve Policy in the Great Recession (Allan Meltzer)
Excerpts from First Principles: Five Keys to Restoring America’s Prosperity (John Taylor)

December 8, 2011
Policy Seminar on the European sovereign debt crisis
Guest Speaker: Axel Weber (former Bundesbank President and future UBS Chairman)

December 2, 2011
Policy Workshop: Restoring Robust Economic Growth in America
Biographies of Speakers and Chairs

October 26, 2011
Policy Seminar on Policies to Stimulate Innovation
Guest Speaker: Andrew Atkeson (Professor of Economics and Finance, UCLA)

October 14, 2011
Policy Workshop with the Center for Latin American Studies on the Uneven Recovery: Emerging Markets versus Developed Economies
Agenda and PowerPoint presentations
Speakers: George P. Shultz, Pedro C. Aspe, Francisco Gil Díaz, Stephen Haber, Allan Meltzer, Leszek Balcerowicz, Michael J. Boskin, John B. Taylor, Pablo Villanueva

October 12, 2011
Policy Seminar on the Role of Monetary Policy in Recent Financial Market Developments
“Where are the Bond Vigilantes?” by Ron McKinnon
Guest Speaker: Ron McKinnon (Professor of International Economics, Stanford University)

September 28, 2011
Policy Seminar on the Economic Situation in Greece and the Rest of Europe
Guest Speaker: Stavros Lambrinidis (Minister for Foreign Affairs of Greece)

September 17, 2011
Meeting of the Resolution Project

August 29, 2011
Policy Seminar on the Eurozone Enlargement: What has the Crisis Changed?
Guest Speaker: Marek Belka (Governor of the Central Bank of Poland, former Finance Minister and Prime Minister of Poland)

August 12, 2011
Policy Seminar on the Uneven Recovery: Emerging Markets and Developed Countries
Guest Speaker: Agustín Carstens (Governor of the Central Bank of Mexico and former Finance Minister of Mexico)

June 8, 2011
Policy seminar on Guarantied to Fail, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance
Guest Speaker: Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh (Associate Professor of Finance at NYU Stern School of Business, Visiting Scholar Stanford University GSB)
Guarantied to Fail slideshow by Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh
Guarantied to Fail executive summary

May 3, 2011
Policy seminar on the Guardians of Finance: Making Them Work for Us
Guest Speaker: Ross Levine (Professor of Economics at Brown University, Director of the William R. Rhodes Center in International Economics and Finance)

April 29, 2011
Meeting of the Resolution Project in Washington, DC at the Fed and the FDIC
Resolution of Failed Financial Institutions: Orderly Liquidation Authority and a New Chapter 14, Studies by the Resolution Project at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Working Group on Economic Policy
Making Bankruptcy Work by Tom Jackson

April 27, 2011
Policy seminar on Transforming the Megabanks
Guest Speaker: Herbert Allison (former head of the TARP at Treasury, former president and CEO of Fannie Mae, former CEO of TIAA-CREF and COO of Merrill Lynch)

April 11, 2011
Policy Seminar with Viral Acharya
Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance (pdf)
Guest Speaker: Viral Acharya (Professor of Finance at NYU, coauthor of Regulating Wall Street: The Dodd-Frank Act and the New Architecture of Global Finance)

April 2, 2011
Meeting of the Resolution Project

March 29, 2011
Policy seminar on the Role of Securitized-Banking System in the Financial Crisis and the Policy Implications
Guest Speaker: Gary Gorton (Professor of Management and Finance at Yale University)

March 4, 2011
Policy seminar on the Eurozone Debt Crisis In Historical Perspective
The Eurozone Debt Crisis In Historical Perspective (pdf)
Guest Speaker: Lee Buchheit (partner at Clearly Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP and specialist in sovereign debt restructurings)

February 18, 2011
Policy seminar on Managing the Leverage Cycle
Solving the Present Crisis and Managing the Leverage Cycle (pdf)
Managing The Leverage Cycle (ppt)
Guest Speaker: John Geanakoplos (Professor of Economics, Yale University and partner at Ellington Capital Management)

January 25, 2011
Policy seminar on the Federal Reserve Actions During the Financial Crisis: An Introduction to Recently Published Data
Guest Speaker: Brian Madigan (former Federal Reserve Director of the Division of Monetary Affairs and FOMC Secretary)

December 3, 2010
Policy Seminar with Darrell Duffie
Systemic Risk Exposure: A 10-by-10-by-10 Approach
Guest Speaker: Darrell Duffie (Professor of Finance at the Stanford GSB)

November 8, 2010
Policy Seminar on Depression, Crises, and Economic Policy: The 1930s and Today
Guest Speaker: Lee Ohanian (Professor of Economics, UCLA)

October 21, 2010
Policy Seminar on Principles for Economic Revival
Guest Speakers: George Shultz, Michael Boskin, John Cogan, and John Taylor

October 19, 2010
Policy Seminar on the Post-Socialist Transition in Comparative Perspective
Guest Speaker: Leszek Balcerowicz (former Finance Minister and Central Bank Governor of Poland)

September 28, 2010
Policy Seminar on Who’s To Blame: What Should We Have Learned From the Financial Crisis So It Doesn’t Happened Again
Guest Speaker: Richard Kovacevich (former Chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo & Co.)

September 8, 2010
Policy Seminar on Perspectives on Budgeting in the US: Four Issues
Guest Speaker: Barry Anderson (former Head of the Budgeting and Public Expenditures Division at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD))

July 27, 2010
Policy Seminar on Politics and the Fed
Guest Speaker: Allan Meltzer (Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution and Professor of Political Economy, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University)

July 13, 2010
Policy Seminar on Reconsidering the Basic Tenets of Macroeconomics in the Light of the Past Two Years
Guest Speaker: Robert Hall (Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and Professor of Economics)

June 30, 2010
Policy Seminar on a Financial Reform Proposal: Equity Liability Carrier
Guest Speakers: Anat Admati (Professor of Finance and Economics, Stanford GSB) and Paul Pfleiderer (Professor of Finance, Stanford GSB)

May 22, 2010
Meeting of the Resolution Project

May 21, 2010
Policy Seminar on Can Government Entitlements Be Controlled: Lessons from History
Guest Speaker: John Cogan (Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and Professor of Public Policy).

May 10, 2010
Policy Seminar on Ending the World’s Financial Plague With Limited Purpose Banking
Guest Speaker: Lawrence Kotlikoff (professor at Boston University and author of Jimmy Stewart is Dead).

May 8, 2010
Meeting of the Resolution Project

May 5, 2010
Policy Seminar on the Post-Crisis Role of Brazil and the Other BRICS
Guest Speaker: Arminio Fraga (former governor of the Central Bank of Brazil).

March 23, 2010
Policy seminar On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System by Henry M. Paulson and conversation about the global financial crisis.
Guest Speaker: Henry M. Paulson (former secretary of Treasury).

March 10, 2010
Policy Seminar on Financial Regulatory Reform...Getting It Right
Guest Speaker: Duncan Niederauer (CEO of the New York Stock Exchange).

February 1, 2010
Policy Seminar on the Role of Government in Financial Markets Following the Crisis
Guest Speaker: Mohamed El-Erian (CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer of PIMCO, former investment manager of the Harvard Management Company).

December 10, 2009
Policy Workshop: Ending Government Bailouts As We Know Them
For a list of participants and biographies of speakers and chairs, click here.
Drafts of chapters of forthcoming book, Ending Government Bailouts As We Know Them (based on the conference)

November 17, 2009
Policy Seminar on the Events Before and After the Lehman Bankruptcy
Guest Speaker: Tom Russo (former Vice Chairman and Chief Legal Officer, Lehman Brothers Inc.)

November 10, 2009
Policy Seminar on International Financial Reforms
Guest Speaker: Raghu Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, Economic Advisor to the Prime Minister of India, and former Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund.

November 9, 2009
Discussion of Market Developments in Fall 2008
Guest Speakers: Jim Coulter and David Bonderman, founding partners of TPG Capital.

November 2, 2009
Policy Seminar on an Emerging Market Policymaker’s Real Time Response to the Panic of 2008
Guest Speaker: Rakesh Mohan, former Deputy Governor of the Reserve Bank of India.

October 31, 2009
Meeting of the Resolution Project

October 14, 2009
Policy Seminar on the California Tax Reform
Guest Speaker: Michael J. Boskin (Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and T.M. Friedman Professor of Economics) and John F. Cogan (Hoover Institution Senior Fellow and Professor of Public Policy)

September 29, 2009
Policy Seminar on the Fed’s exit strategy
Guest Speaker: Kevin Warsh (Governor, Federal Reserve System)

September 26, 2009
Meeting of the Resolution Project

August 25, 2009
The Financial Crisis and the Economy
Guest Speaker: Chris Cox (Bingham McCutchen, LLP), former SEC Chairman

August 18, 2009
New Resolution Project Planning Meeting

July 24, 2009
Policy Seminar on the Role of Housing in the Financial Crisis
Guest Speaker: Russell Roberts (Research Fellow, Hoover Institution, Professor of Economics, George Mason University)

June 29, 2009
Meeting on the Treasury Proposal for Financial Reform

May 22, 2009
Policy Seminar on the Response to the Financial Crisis during 2008 from the Perspective of Inside the Treasury
Guest speaker: Jim Wilkinson (The Brunswick Group, LLC), former Chief of Staff at the U.S. Treasury

March 30, 2009
Policy Workshop: The Future of Central Banking

February 27, 2009
Policy Seminar on the Mortgage Markets
Guest speaker: Frank Nothaft (Chief Economist, Freddie Mac)

January 26, 2009
Policy Seminar with Peter Fisher

December 3, 2008
Policy Workshop on the Financial Crisis: Root Causes, Policy Evaluation, Next Steps
Distinguished guests included John Lipsky, first deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund. For further details, click on the above link. For a summary of the proceedings click here.

November 10, 2008
Meeting on CDS and Mortgage Market Reforms

October 10, 2008
Meeting to Analyze Financial Rescue Plan Options

September 17, 2008
Policy Seminar on Financial Markets and Credit Losses
Guest Speaker: Wesley Phoa (Capital Strategy Research)

July 28, 2008
Policy Seminar with Charles Schwab

July 22, 2008
Policy Workshop: The Future Role of Central Banking Policy: Urgent and Precedent-Setting Next Steps

June 19, 2008
Policy Seminar on Hedge Funds & Financial Markets
Guest speaker: Myron Scholes (Platinum Grove Asset Management)

June 3, 2008
Special Seminar on Income Distribution
Guest speakers: Professor Emmanuel Saez (University of California-Berkeley) and Professor Kevin Murphy (University of Chicago)

May 5, 2008
Policy Seminar on Sovereign Wealth Funds
Guest speakers: Edwin Truman (Peterson Institute for International Economics) and Adnan Mazarei (International Monetary Fund)

May 5, 2008
Public Panel Discussion on Sovereign Wealth Funds
Guest speakers: Edwin Truman (Institute for International Economics) and Adnan Mazarei (International Monetary Fund)

Apr. 17, 2008
Policy Seminar on Developments in Investment Banking
Guest Speaker: Philippe Barret (Dodge & Cox)

Apr. 9, 2008
Policy Seminar on Recent Turmoil in Financial Markets
Guest Speaker: Governor Kevin Warsh (Federal Reserve Board)
Discussant: John C. Williams (San Francisco Fed)

Feb. 20, 2008
Public Panel Discussion on International Exchange Rates**
Speakers: John B. Taylor, Hiroshi Watanabe (former Japanese Vice-Minister of Finance), and Ronald McKinnon (Stanford University)

Feb. 19, 2008
Policy Seminar on Key Issues in U.S.-Asian Economic Relations
Guest speaker: Hiroshi Watanabe, former Japanese Vice-Minister of Finance

Feb. 8, 2008
Meeting with John W. Snow, former U.S. Treasury Secretary

Jan. 31, 2008
Policy Seminar on Current Issues in Monetary and Financial Policy
Speakers: John Gunn (Dodge & Cox) on financial market resiliency, John Taylor (Hoover Institution) on money market developments, and Professor Volker Wieland (Goethe University of Frankfurt) on monetary and fiscal stimulus policies.

* Jointly hosted with the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR)
** Hosted by SIEPR and the Stanford Center for International Development