Global Society of Fellows Annual Conference April 9, 2013
Richmond, Virginia 23173
Jeffrey Lacker, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Ellen Hughes-Cromwick, chief economist for Ford Motor Company, and Richard Vague, managing partner of Gabriel Investments, are among featured speakers at the Global Society of Fellows conference April 9 at the University of Richmond.
Titled “When Public Investment is No Longer an Oxymoron: Fiscal Policy in Liquidity Trap Conditions,” the conference is sponsored by the Global Society of Fellows, part of the Global Interdependence Center, a nonprofit organization that encourages the expansion of global dialogue and free trade. Co-sponsors are Richmond’s School of Arts & Sciences and Robins School of Business.
The conference will be held in Tyler Haynes Commons, Alice Haynes Room, from 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m., and is free and open to the public. Registration is required at http://bit.ly/gicgsf13.
Lacker will speak at 9:30 a.m. about “Ending Too Big to Fail is Going to be Hard Work.” Hughes-Cromwick and Joshua Cregger, an auto industry analyst, will speak at 10:30 a.m. about “Financing the Infrastructure to Support Alternative Fuel Vehicles: How Much Investment is Needed and How Will it be Funded?” Vague and Robert Hockett, professor of law at Cornell University Law School, will speak at 11:30 a.m. about “How to Predict the Next Financial Crisis.”
Afternoon sessions will feature Paul McCulley, chair of the Global Society of Fellows, and Zoltan Pozsar, visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund, who will discuss “Helicopter Money: Or How I Stopped Worrying and Love Fiscal-Monetary Cooperation;” and two University of Richmond economics professors – Dean Croushore and Robert Dolan.
Added by RVANews on March 28, 2013