Conference

Second Thomas Laubach Research Conference

May 15-16, 2025

Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C.

The Federal Reserve Board will host the Second Thomas Laubach Research Conference on May 15-16, 2025. The conference is a key component of the Federal Reserve’s review of its monetary policy strategy, tools, and communication. As such, the conference will provide timely academic and practitioner perspectives from outside the Federal Reserve System on a range of issues related to the monetary policy framework the Federal Reserve uses to pursue its congressionally assigned goals of maximum employment and price stability. The conference will be broadcast live at federalreserve.gov and YouTube.

Agenda, Video, & Materials

Thursday, May 15

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – 8:40 a.m.

Introduction
Trevor Reeve, Federal Reserve Board

8:40 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.

Opening Remarks
Jerome H. Powell, Chair, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.

Session 1: The Labor Market and Maximum Employment
Moderator: Stacey Tevlin, Federal Reserve Board
Presenter: Ayşegül Sahin, Princeton University
Discussant: Erik Hurst, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Session 2: Inflation Dynamics and Inflation Expectations
Moderator: Sylvain Leduc, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Presenter: Yuriy Gorodnichenko, University of California, Berkeley
Discussant: Mark Gertler, New York University

Lunch

1:30 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

Session 3: Lessons for Monetary Policy Strategy
Moderator: David Lopez-Salido, Federal Reserve Board
Presenter: Carl Walsh, University of California, Santa Cruz
Discussant: Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University

2:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m.

Break

3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.

Session 4: Policy Tools to Support the Policy Framework
Moderator: Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Federal Reserve Board
Presenter: Silvana Tenreyro, London School of Economics
Discussant: Samuel Hanson, Harvard Business School

Friday, May 16

8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.

Continental Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – 9:35 a.m.

Session 5: Financial Market Expectations: Implications for Policy and Communications
Moderator: Roberto Perli, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Presenter: Ricardo Caballero, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Discussant: Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University

9:35 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.

Break

9:50 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.

Session 6: Enhancing Monetary Policy Communications
Moderator: Anna Paulson, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Presenter: Ben S. Bernanke, former Chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, Brookings Institution
Discussant: William English, Yale School of Management

10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.

Break

11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Policymaker Panel: Central Bank Communications and Uncertainty
Moderator: Trevor Reeve, Federal Reserve Board
Panelists: Philip Lane, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank; Clare Lombardelli, Deputy Governor, Bank of England; Anna Seim, Deputy Governor, Sveriges Riksbank

12:00 p.m.

Closing Remarks and Adjourn

Last Update: March 05, 2025