Hoover Monetary Policy Conference 2026

The slides and videos from the May 8 2026 Hoover Monetary Policy Conference are up. I echo here, or go to the Hoover Website here in case my copy-paste doesn’t work. Valerie Ramey, Michael Bordo, Tom Church and I wrote an overview essay which you can find here. I’ll also echo it in the next post.

The conference:

Independence and Governance

Moderator: John Cochrane, Hoover Institution

Presenters: Edward Nelson, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
(paper)(slides)

Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine
(slides)

David Wilcox, Peterson Institute for International Economics
(paper)(slides)

Fiscal and Monetary Policy Interactions

Moderator: Oliver Bush, London School of Economics

Presenters: Michael Bordo, Hoover Institution and Rutgers University
(paper 1) (paper 2)(slides)

Barry Eichengreen, University of California, Berkeley

Hanno Lustig, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
(slides)

Director Remarks

Condoleezza Rice, Director, Hoover Institution

International Issues

Moderator: Sebastian Edwards, University of California, Los Angeles

Presenters: Arvind Krishnamurthy, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
(paper)(slides)

Stephen Redding, Stanford University
(paper)(slides)

Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University

Mandate, Tools, and Regulation

Moderator: Andrew Levin, Dartmouth College

Presenters: Thomas Drechsel, University of Maryland
(paper)(slides)

Luis Garicano, London School of Economics
(slides)

Carolyn Wilkins, Princeton University
(slides)

Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities

Moderator: Ross Levine, Hoover Institution

Presenters: Marvin Barth, Thematic Markets
(slides)

Darrell Duffie, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
(slides)

Christina Skinner, U.S. Department of the Treasury

Policy Panel

Moderator: Paola Sapienza, Hoover Institution

Presenters: Michelle Bowman, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
(speech)

Mary Daly, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
(speech)

Austan Goolsbee, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
(speech)(slides)

Christopher Waller, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
(speech)

Dinner Address: ”Firefighters and Arsonists: Monetary Policy and the History of Recession”

Moderator: Michael Bordo, Hoover Institution and Rutgers University

Presenter: Tyler Goodspeed, ExxonMobil Corporation
(slides)