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  1. Can Sovereignty and Effective International Supervision Be Reconciled? The Challenge of Large Complex Financial Institutions

    Featuring Erik Berglöf, Claudio Borio, Garry Schinasi , and Andrew Sheng

    Apr 8, 2011 | 11:05—01:05

  2. Sovereignty and Institutional Design in the Global Age: The Global Market and the Nation States

    Featuring Ian Goldin, Andy Haldane, Marleen Janssen Groesbeek , and Dalia Marin

    Apr 8, 2011 | 09:00—10:50

  3. Getting Back on Track : Macroeconomic Management After A Financial Crisis

    Featuring Duncan Foley, Richard Koo, Mario Seccareccia, and Alan Taylor

    Apr 8, 2011 | 04:50—06:55

  4. Gordon Brown: Keynote Address

    Featuring Gordon Brown

    Apr 8, 2011 | 07:00—09:00

  5. Conference paper

    Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, Once Again

    By Jean-Paul Fitoussi

    Apr 2011

    Some questions can only be answered by educated guess. The question at the centre of this round table pertains to this category. We should not be ashamed of this kind of limitation of our capacity to predict the future.

  6. The Emerging Economic And Political Order: What Lies Ahead?

    Featuring Jean-Paul Fitoussi, Harold James, Kenneth Rogoff, and George Soros

    Apr 7, 2011 | 11:15—01:00

  7. Welcome and Opening Remarks

    Featuring Rob Johnson

    Apr 7, 2011 | 11:00—11:15

  8. How the West is Repeating Japan's Mistakes

    Featuring Richard Koo and Rob Johnson

    Feb 24, 2011

  9. Big Money, Mass Media, and the Polarization of Congress

    By Thomas Ferguson

    Jan 11, 2011

    Paper presented at Bretton Woods Conference

  10. Conference paper

    Political Economy of Controlling Systemic Risk: What Governments Can Do Vs. What Governments Are Willing to Do

    By Edward J. Kane

    Apr 2010

    In directing panelists to distinguish between what governments “can” and “will” do, this session’s title frames economic policymaking as a balancing act. Principled efforts to define and pursue the public interest are contested and repeatedly knocked off course by conflictingpersonal, bureaucratic, and political concerns that impinge on government decisionmakers.

  11. Conference paper

    When Wolves Cry “Wolf”: Systemic Financial Crises and the Myth of the Danaid Jar

    By Thomas Ferguson and Rob Johnson

    Apr 2010

    Financial crises are staggeringly costly. Only major wars rival them in the burdens they place on public finances.

  12. Conference paper

    Marcello De Cecco: Political Economy: What Can Government Do? What Will Government Do?

    By Marcello De Cecco

    Apr 2010

    The crisis of the export led model in the EMU countries and its monetary and financial consequences on European integration.

  13. Political Economy: What Can Government Do? What Will Government Do?

    Featuring Marcello De Cecco, Thomas Ferguson, Edward J. Kane, and Simon Johnson

    Apr 9, 2010 | 12:15—02:05

  14. Conference paper

    Economic Policy Challenges in the Post-Crisis Period

    By Dominique Strauss-Khan

    Apr 2010

    The global financial crisis—and the Great Recession that followed—have inflicted tremendous economic and social damage across the world. Thankfully, we now appear to be on the path to recovery—though it remains sluggish and uneven, and in need of continued policy support in many advanced economies.

  15. Dominique Strauss-Kahn: Economic Policy Challenges in the Post-Crisis Period

    Featuring Dominique Strauss-Khan

    Apr 9, 2010 | 08:05—09:55