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 research director and later senior vice president, Jones played a major role in developing the St. Louis Fed as a leader in monetary research and statistics. The first lecture was held in 1987.

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Speakers

Watch videos from Homer Jones Memorial Lectures. Many also appear in Review, a scholarly journal from the St. Louis Fed.

2025

Agustín Carstens: “Monetary Policy Frameworks: Lessons Learned and Challenges Ahead”
Lecture videos

2023

Isabel Schnabel: “The Last Mile”
Lecture videos | Review article

2022

Eswar Prasad: “The Future of Money and its Implications for Society, Central Banks and the International Monetary System”
Lecture videos | Review article

2020

John Cochrane: “Strategic Review and Beyond: Rethinking Monetary Policy and Independence”
Lecture videos | Review article

2019

Carmen Reinhart: “A Short Tour of Global Risks”
Lecture videos | Review article | Women in Economics podcast

2018

Kristin Forbes: “How Have Shanghai, Saudi and Supply Chains Affected U.S. Inflation Dynamics?”
Lecture videos | Review article

2016

Lawrence H. Summers: “Secular Stagnation and Monetary Policy”
Lecture videos | Review article

2015

Athanasios Orphanides: “Fear of Liftoff: Uncertainty, Rules and Discretion in Monetary Policy Normalization”
Lecture videos | Review article

2014

Robert E. Lucas Jr.: “Liquidity: Meaning, Measurement, Management”
Lecture videos | Review article

2013

R. Glenn Hubbard: “A Roadmap for Financial Regulatory Reform”
Lecture videos | Review article

2012

Mohamed El-Erian: “Evolution, Impact and Limitations of Unusual Central Bank Policy Activism”
Lecture videos | Review article

2011

Axel Weber: “Challenges for monetary policy in EMU”
Lecture videos | Review article

2010

Alan S. Blinder: “Quantitative Easing: Entrance and Exit Strategies”
Lecture videos | Review article

2009

Raghuram G. Rajan: “The Credit Crisis and Cycle-Proof Regulation”
Lecture videos | Review article

2006

Jerry L. Jordan: “Money and Monetary Policy for the Twenty-First Century”
Review article

2005

Ben Bernanke: “The Global Saving Glut and the U.S. Current Account Deficit”
Text of speech (Federal Reserve Board)

2004

Jeremy J. Siegel: “Can We Measure ‘Expected’ Inflation?”

2003

Douglass C. North: “Institutions and Economic Performances”

2002

Michael Mussa: “Fun at the Fund: International Economic Policy Making During a Decade of Financial Crises”

2001

Laurence H. Meyer: “Does Money Matter?”
Review article

2000

Frederic S. Mishkin: “What Should Central Banks Do?”
Review article

1999

Bennett T. McCallum: “Recent Developments in the Analysis of Monetary Policy Rules”
Review article

1998

John B. Taylor: “Monetary Policy and the Long Boom”
Review article

1997

Rudiger (Rudi) Dornbusch

1995

Lawrence B. Lindsey: “The Two-Handed Role of Money”
Review article

1994

Helmut Schlesinger: “On the Way to a New Monetary Union: The European Monetary Union”
Review article

1993

W. Lee Hoskins: “Views on Monetary Policy”
Review article

1992

Anna Schwartz: “The Misuse of the Fed's Discount Window” 
Review article

1991

Allan H. Meltzer: “U.S. Policy in the Bretton Woods Era”
Review article

1990

David Laidler: “The Legacy of the Monetarist Controversy”
Review article

1989

H. Robert Heller: “Money and the International Monetary System”
Review article

1988

William G. Dewald: “Monetarism is Dead; Long Live the Quantity Theory”
Review article

1987

Beryl W. Sprinkel: “Confronting Monetary Policy Dilemmas: The Legacy of Homer Jones”
Review article