LEVY ECONOMICS INSTITUTE’S 25TH ANNUAL HYMAN P. MINSKY CONFERENCE, APRIL 12–13

LEADING ECONOMISTS AND POLICYMAKERS TO DISCUSS U.S. ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF THE GLOBAL ECONOMY AT THE LEVY ECONOMICS INSTITUTE’S 25TH ANNUAL HYMAN P. MINSKY CONFERENCE, APRIL 12–13

ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y.— From April 12 to 13, the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College will gather top policymakers, economists, and analysts at the 25th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World Economies to discuss, among many issues, whether what appears to be a global economic slowdown will jeopardize the implementation and efficiency of Dodd-Frank regulatory reforms, the transition of monetary policy away from zero interest rates, and the “new” normal of fiscal policy. The conference, “Will the Global Economic Environment Constrain U.S. Growth and Employment?,” is being organized by the Levy Institute with support from the Ford Foundation, and will take place Tuesday and Wednesday, April 12–13, at the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

Participants include Vítor Constâncio, vice president, European Central Bank; former U.S. Representative Barney Frank (D-MA); Richard Berner, director, Office of Financial Research, U.S. Department of the Treasury; Stephanie A. Kelton, research associate, Levy Institute, chief economist, U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and professor, University of Missouri–Kansas City; Martin L. Leibowitz, managing director, Morgan Stanley; Bruce C. N. Greenwald, Robert Heilbrunn Professor of Finance and Asset Management, Columbia University; Michael Masters, founder and chairman of the board, Better Markets; Lakshman Achuthan; cofounder and chief operations officer, Economic Cycle Research Institute; Henry Kaufman, president, Henry Kaufman & Company, Inc.; Loukas Tsoukalis, Pierre Keller Visiting Professor, Harvard University; Frank Veneroso, president, Veneroso Associates, LLC; Albert M. Wojnilower, economic consultant, Craig Drill Capital; Eduardo Porter, columnist, The New York Times; Theo Francis, special writer, The Wall Street Journal; Izabella Kaminska, journalist, Financial Times; and Peter Eavis, reporter, The New York Times.

The 2016 Minsky Conference will address, among other issues, the use of fiscal policies aimed at achieving sustainable growth and full employment, along with the question, is economic policy leading to another Minsky moment? The conference will include presentations by Jan Kregel, senior scholar, Levy Institute, and professor, Tallinn University of Technology; Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, president, Levy Institute; Viral V. Acharya, C. V. Starr Professor of Economics, New York University Stern School of Business; Emilios Avgouleas, chair, International Banking Law and Finance, School of Law, University of Edinburgh; Robert J. Barbera, codirector, Center for Financial Economics, The Johns Hopkins University; Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho, senior scholar, Levy Institute, and emeritus professor of economics, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; Scott Fullwiler, professor of economics and James A. Leach Chair in Banking and Monetary Economics, Wartburg College; Michael Greenberger, professor, School of Law, and director, Center for Health and Homeland Security, The University of Maryland; Robert A. Johnson, president, Institute for New Economic Thinking, and senior fellow and director, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute; Edward Kane, professor of finance, Boston College; Michalis Nikiforos, research scholar, Levy Institute; Walker F. Todd, trustee, American Institute for Economic Research; Mario Tonveronachi, professor of the economics of financial systems, University of Siena; and L. Randall Wray, senior scholar, Levy Institute, and professor of economics, Bard College.