Thursday, May 7, 2026
Time Content Speaker

6:30–8:30 PM

INFORMAL WELCOME RECEPTION and DINNER 

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Friday, May 8, 2026
Time Content Presenters

7:30 – 8:10 AM

BREAKFAST

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8:10–8:15 AM

Welcome 

Valerie Ramey, Hoover Institution 

8:15 AM

Opening Remarks

Condoleezza Rice, Director, Hoover Institution

8:30 AM

Fiscal and Monetary Policy Interactions

Moderator: Oliver Bush, London School of Economics

Presenters: Michael Bordo, Hoover Institution and Rutgers University

Hanno Lustig, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Carmen Reinhart, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

9:45 AM

International Issues

Moderator: Sebastian Edwards, University of California, Los Angeles


Presenters: Arvind Krishnamurthy, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Stephen Redding, Stanford University

Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University

11:00 AM 

Break

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11:15 AM

Foundational Issues 1: Independence and Governance

Moderator: John Cochrane, Hoover Institution

Presenters: Luis Garicano, London School of Economics

Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine

David Wilcox, Peterson Institute for International Economics

12:30–1:30 PM

LUNCH

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1:30 PM

Break

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1:45 PM

Foundational Issues 2: Mandate, Tools, and Regulation

Moderator: Andrew Levin, Dartmouth College

Presenters: Thomas Drechsel, University of Maryland

Stephen Miran, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Carolyn Wilkins, Bank of England

3:00 PM

Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities

Moderator: Ross Levine, Hoover Institution

Presenters: Marvin Barth, Thematic Markets

Darrell Duffie, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

Christina Skinner, U.S. Department of the Treasury

4:15 PM 

Break

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4:30 PM

Policy Panel 

Moderator: Paola Sapienza, Hoover Institution

Presenters: Michelle Bowman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Mary Daly, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

Austan Goolsbee, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Christopher Waller, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

6:00–6:30 PM

RECEPTION

 

6:30 PM 

DINNER

Dinner Address: ”Firefighters and Arsonists: Monetary Policy and the History of Recession”

Tyler Goodspeed, ExxonMobil Corporation

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