2023 US Monetary Policy Forum

February 24, 2023 – New York

This annual conference brings together academics, market economists, and policy makers. The conference is sponsored by the Initiative on Global Markets at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Program

The conference began with the 2023 report, Managing Disinflations, presented by Stephen G Cecchetti (Brandeis International Business School), Michael Feroli (JP Morgan), Peter Hooper (Deutsche Bank), Frederic Mishkin (Columbia University), and Kermit Schoenholtz (NYU Stern)

The report was discussed by the following:

• Philip Jefferson, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (read speech)
• Loretta Mester, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland (read speech)

Over lunch there was a conversation with Daleep Singh (PGIM).

The conference concluded with a panel discussion on Why Did We Miscast Inflation that includes:

• Susan M. Collins, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston (read speech)
• Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley (view slides)
• Mervyn King, London School of Economics (read speech)
• Christopher Waller, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve (panel moderator)