More than a year after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 outbreak to be a pandemic, the U.S. and European economies face historic challenges as they begin to emerge into a post-pandemic recovery. From Wednesday, May 5–Thursday, May 6, the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College will host its 29th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the U.S. and World Economies as a two-day virtual conference, featuring top policymakers, economists, and analysts. Participants in the conference, “Prospects and Challenges for the US and Europe in an Emerging Post-Pandemic Recovery,” will assess, among other issues, what’s ahead for the U.S. and European economies, prospects for reforming the financial system, economic policy for the Biden administration, financial governance and regulation, and U.S. financial market instability. For information about the conference or to register, please click here.

Featured speakers include Robert Kaplan, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas; Charles Evans, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago; Patricia McCoy, Boston College; Kathryn Judge, Columbia University School of Law; James Paulsen, The Leuthold Group; Bruce Greenwald, Columbia Business School; Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics; Jan Hatzius, Goldman Sachs; Jason Furman, Harvard University; Frank Veneroso, Veneroso Associates; Lakshman Achuthan, Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI); Robert Barbera, Johns Hopkins University; Paolo Savona, CONSOB; Lex Hoogduin, University of Groningen; Michael Greenberger, University of Maryland Law School; Bruce Kasman, JP Morgan; Denis MacShane, former Europe Minister and Avisa Partners; Peter Coy, Bloomberg Businessweek; David P. Henry, Reuters; Binyamin Appelbaum, Deborah Solomon, and Jeanna Smialek, New York Times; Robert Huebscher, Advisor Perspectives; and Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Jan Kregel, L. Randall Wray, Gennaro Zezza, and Michalis Nikiforos, Levy Institute.

The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, founded in 1986 through the generous support of the late Bard College trustee Leon Levy, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization. The Institute is independent of any political or other affiliation, and encourages diversity of opinion in the examination of economic policy issues while striving to transform ideological arguments into informed debate.