Afternoon Must-Watch: David Wessel’s Brand-New Hutchins Center: Central Banking after the Great Recession: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead

David Wessel et al.: Central Banking after the Great Recession: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead:

The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings will host its inaugural event exploring these topics with a panel moderated by Director of the Hutchins Center and Brookings Senior Fellow David Wessel. Papers will be presented by: San Francisco Federal Reserve President and CEO John Williams on unconventional policy, with a response by Harvard University’s Martin Feldstein; Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England Paul Tucker on regulation, with a response by Sullivan & Cromwell’s H. Rodgin Cohen; and a panel discussion on central bank independence with Brookings’ Donald Kohn, Harvard’s Kenneth Rogoff, and the University of California’s Christina Romer. Following the panel, former CEO of Fischer Francis Trees and Watts, Inc., Pulitzer- Prize winning author, and Brookings trustee Liaquat Ahamed will interview Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke about the Federal Reserve’s first and next century. All speakers will take questions from the audience.