This conference is by invitation only

Thursday, May 7, 2026
Time Content Speaker

6:00–8:00 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

Independence and Governance

Moderator: John Cochrane, Hoover Institution

Presenters: Edward Nelson, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
(paper)

Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine

David Wilcox, Peterson Institute for International Economics
(paper)

9:30 AM

Fiscal and Monetary Policy Interactions

Moderator: Oliver Bush, London School of Economics

Presenters: Michael Bordo, Hoover Institution and Rutgers University
(paper 1) (paper 2)

Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley

Hanno Lustig, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University

10:45 AM

Break

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11:00 AM 

Director Remarks

Condoleezza Rice, Director, Hoover Institution

11:15 AM

International Issues

Moderator: Sebastian Edwards, University of California, Los Angeles

Presenters: Arvind Krishnamurthy, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
(paper)

Stephen Redding, Stanford University
(paper)

Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University

12:30–1:30 PM

LUNCH

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1:30 PM

Break

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1:45 PM

Mandate, Tools, and Regulation

Moderator: Andrew Levin, Dartmouth College

Presenters: Thomas Drechsel, University of Maryland
(paper)

Luis Garicano, London School of Economics

Carolyn Wilkins, Princeton University

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”

Moderator: Michael Bordo, Hoover Institution and Rutgers University

Presenter: Tyler Goodspeed, ExxonMobil Corporation

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