2020 Homer Jones Memorial Lecture
March 4, 2020
Lecture by John Cochrane
John Cochrane, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, presented the 2020 Homer Jones Memorial Lecture on March 4. He spoke about rethinking monetary policy and independence.
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Welcoming Remarks by James Bullard
St. Louis Fed President James Bullard welcomed attendees to the annual lecture and introduced this year's speaker, John Cochrane.
View text version of President Bullard's welcoming remarks.
Q&A Session
Following the presentation, Cochrane conducted a Q&A session with the audience.
Read the article in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Review: Strategic Review and Beyond: Rethinking Monetary Policy and Independence.
Cochrane is known in part for the “Grumpy Economist” economic and public policy news and views blog, which he created and named after his children used that description for him “after one too many rants at the dinner table.”
He’s also known for his fiscal and monetary policy research: In addition to his Stanford position, Cochrane is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and an adjunct scholar of the CATO Institute.
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John Cochrane, a senior fellow of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, presented at the 2020 Homer Jones Memorial Lecture.
About the Homer Jones Memorial Lecture
This lecture series is named for Homer Jones (1906-1986), who exemplified the highest qualities of leadership in economics and public policy. As St. Louis Fed research director and later senior vice president, Jones played a major role in developing the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis as a leader in monetary research and statistics.
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