2017 - 18 Year in Review

3 editor in chief of VoxEU.org); an in-depth look at China’s approach to crisis management by Christian Broda (managing director at Duquesne Capital Management); and a research-based talk by Chad Syverson (Eli B. and Harriet B. Williams Professor of Economics at Chicago Booth), in which he argued that the slowdown in US productivity growth is real rather than a byproduct of mismeasurement. The IGM supports high-quality interactions with policymakers through conferences and other gatherings. Our US Monetary Policy Forum, for example, brings together academic researchers, market economists, and policymakers for an annual gathering in New York. The 2018 USMPF featured a special report—“A Skeptical View of the Impact of the Fed’s Balance Sheet”—that was discussed by two members of the Federal Open Market Committee. This past year, the IGM also convened three small, high-level meetings in Miami, in which academics, central bank officials, and senior managers of global financial institutions discussed systemic aspects of financial regulation.