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Jackson Hole Agenda: Focus on Crisis Management Amid Uncertainty, Low Rates

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Top global central bankers will gather virtually Thursday and Friday mornings to discuss low neutral rates, low trend rate of growth, the Covid-19 shock, uncertainty, and monetary policy limited by the lower bound. For the first time in the forum's history since 1978 the program will be entirely online and streamed live to the public at www.YouTube.com/KansasCityFed

  • Thursday 9:10 ET: Chair Jay Powell remarks on the monetary policy framework review and questions from the nearly 150 registered participants
  • Thursday 9:55 ET: paper on low trend growth
  • Thursday 10:35 ET: paper on low interest rates
  • Thursday 11:15 ET: ECB's Philip Lane, BOC's Tiff Macklem, Singapore Monetary Authority's Tharman Shanmugaratnam will participate in a panel discussion on "Crisis Management in the Covid-19 Economic Shutdown"
  • Friday 9:05 ET: BOE's Andrew Bailey remarks
  • Friday 9:40 ET: paper on uncertainty
  • Friday 10:20 ET: paper on expectations and monetary policy
  • Friday 11 ET: OECD's Laurence Boone will speak on a panel on post-pandemic monetary policy

MNI Washington Bureau | +1 202-371-2121 | evan.ryser@marketnews.com
MNI Washington Bureau | +1 202-371-2121 | evan.ryser@marketnews.com

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