Department of Economics

Eric Leeper was invited to present a paper at the Jackson Hole Symposium, an annual meeting sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, where academics, policymakers, and practitioners meet to discuss the latest developments in monetary economics and monetary policy. Professor Leepers paper, "The Myth of Normal: The Bumpy Story of Inflation and Monetary Policy," is forthcoming in Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Conference Proceedings, 2015 Jackson Hole Symposium. He gave the keynote talk, Why is Fiscal Analysis So Darn Hard, to the conference on Rethinking Fiscal Policy After the Crisis organized by the Slovakian Council for Fiscal Responsibility which was held in Bratislava. Professor Leeper presented co-authored research, Clearing Up the Fiscal Multiplier Morass, at the Belgium National Bank in Brussels.