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PRELIMINARY
PROGRAM
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| Thursday, April 17 |
9:00–10:00 a.m.
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BREAKFAST
AND REGISTRATION |
10:00–10:30
a.m.
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WELCOME AND
INTRODUCTION |
Dimitri
B. Papadimitriou, The Levy Economics Institute
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10:30 a.m. – 12:30
p.m.
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SESSION 1 — HISTORICAL
PRECEDENT AND SOLUTIONS TO THE MORTGAGE MARKET CRISIS |
MODERATOR: Dimitri
B. Papadimitriou, The Levy Economics Institute
“Broken Systems: Agendas for Financial
and Monetary Reform”
Jane D’Arista, Financial
Markets Center
"Wizards
of Oz? The Politics and Economics of Bailouts in
the New Deal and Now"
Thomas Ferguson, University
of Massachusetts Boston
"The Logic of the
Bubble, the Logic of the Bust"
Alex J. Pollock, American
Enterprise Institute
“Plans from the 1930s to Rehabilitate Both
Mortgage Financing and the Banks”
Walker F. Todd, American Institute
for Economic Research |
12:30–2:30
p.m.
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LUNCH |
SPEAKER: Paul
McCulley, PIMCO
“A Reverse Minsky Journey” |
2:45–4:15
p.m.
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SESSION 2 — MINSKY
AND THE CRISIS |
MODERATOR: Greg Hannsgen,The Levy Economics Institute
“Using Tools from the Financial Instability
Hypothesis to Understand the Subprime Crisis”
Jan Kregel,The
Levy Economics Institute and University of Missouri–Kansas
City
"Minsky
for More Than a Moment: Why You Can't Get There from Here"
Robert W. Parenteau, MacroStrategy Edge
“Financial Markets Meltdown: What Can
We Learn from Minsky?”
L. Randall Wray, The
Levy Economics Institute and University of Missouri–Kansas
City |
4:15–4:45 p.m.
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COFFEE BREAK |
4:45–6:15
p.m.
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SESSION 3 — IMPACT
OF THE CRISIS ON THE ECONOMIC OUTLOOK |
MODERATOR: W.
Ray Towle,The Levy Economics Institute
“Money and Credit Markets: Dislocations and Policy Options”
Richard Berner, Morgan
Stanley
“Economic and Financial Market Outlook”
James W. Paulsen, Wells Capital Management
“Financial Crisis: Prospect of a Second
Wave”
Frank Veneroso, Veneroso Associates, LLC |
6:30–7:15 p.m.
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RECEPTION |
7:15 p.m.
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DINNER |
SPEAKER: Edward
Chancellor, Grantham, Mayo, van Otterloo, LLC
“Hyman Minsky and the Great Moderation” |
| Friday, April 18 |
9:00–9:30 a.m.
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BREAKFAST |
9:30–10:15
a.m.
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SPEAKER |
James
K. Galbraith,The
Levy Economics Institute and University of
Texas at Austin
“The Generalized Minsky Moment” |
10:15–11:00
a.m.
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SPEAKER |
Robert
Barbera, ITG
“Has Greenspan's Conundrum Morphed
into Bernanke's Calamity?” |
11:00–11:15
a.m.
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COFFEE BREAK |
11:15
a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
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SESSION 4 — FINANCIAL
MARKET REGULATION-REREGULATION |
MODERATOR: Jan Kregel,The Levy Economics Institute
Why Greenspan’s and Bush’s Regulatory Failures Allowed a “Criminogenic Environment”
William Kurt Black, University
of Missouri–Kansas City
“Unintended
Consequences: The Inefficiency of Computer-driven Markets”
Martin Mayer, Brookings
Institution |
12:30–2:30
p.m.
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LUNCH |
SPEAKER: Maurice
Hinchey, U.S.
House of Representatives (New York)
“Weapons of Mass Economic Destruction” |
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