Statements and Speeches of Donald L. Kohn

2002

• November 22, 2002 - The U.S. current account deficit (231.4K)
  Remarks at the 12th Frankfurt European Banking Conference at the Alte Oper Frankfurt, Germany

2003

• February 28, 2003 - The strength in consumer durables and housing: policy stabilization or problem in the making? (928.5K)
  Remarks at the Conference on Finance and Macroeconomics sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

• March 5, 2003 - Statement before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit of the Committee on Financial Services, House of Representatives (117.8K)

• March 24, 2003 - Comment on Marvin Goodfriend: 'Inflation Targeting in the U.S.?' (171.2K)

• June 10, 2003 - Comment on "Good policies for bad governments: behavioral political economy" by Daniel J. Benjamin and David I. Laibson (405.8K)
  At the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's 48th Economic Conference: How Humans Behave -- Implications for Economics and Economic Policy, Chatham, Massachusetts

• June 20, 2003 - Central bank talk: Does it matter and why? (1.1M)
  With Brian P. Sack, regarding FOMC statements' impact on market interest rates

• September 24, 2003 - Productivity and monetary policy (566.9K)
  Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Monetary Seminar, Philadelphia

• October 17, 2003 - Panel Discussion (422.5K)
  Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 28th Annual Policy Conference, Inflation Targeting: Prospects and Problems

2004

• January 7, 2004 - Panel Discussion (422.5K)
  Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Public Policy Dinner, Atlanta Georgia

• March 25, 2004 - Monetary policy in a time of macroeconomic transition (471.3K)
  National Association for Business Economics 20th Annual Washington Policy Conference, Washington, D.C.

• March 26, 2004 - Research at the Federal Reserve Board: The contributions of Henderson, Porter, and Tinsley (439.7K)
  Before the Models and Monetary Conference Policy, Washington D.C.

• April 1, 2004 - Monetary policy and imbalances (411.6K)
  Banking and Finance Lecture Series, Widener University, Chester, PA

• June 4, 2004 - The outlook for inflation (458.0K)
  Remarks to the National Economist Club, Washington, D.C.

• June 22, 2004 - Statement before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate (324.2K)

• October 15, 2004 - How should policymakers deal with low-probability, high-impact events? (336.3K)
  Remarks to the European Central Bank Conference, "Monetary Policy and Imperfect Knowledge," Wurzberg, Germany

2005

• January 6, 2005 - Crisis management: The known, the unknown, and the unknowable (127.0K)
  Wharton/Sloan/Mercer Oliver Wyman Institute Conference "Financial Risk Management in Practice." Philadelphia, Pennsylvannia

• January 9, 2005 - Central bank communication (143.7K)
  Remarks to the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

• April 14, 2005 - Economic outlook (445.9K)
  Remarks to the 2005 Conference of 12th District Directors, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

• April 22, 2005 - Imbalances in the U.S. economy (523.8K)
  Remarks to the Levy Institute's Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, Bard College, New York

• May 20, 2005 - Modeling inflation: A policymaker's perspective (439.0K)
  Remarks at the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy: 3rd conference European Central Bank, Frankfurt, Germany

• June 9, 2005 - Statement before the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit of the Committee on Financial Services, House of Representatives (197.4K)

• June 15, 2005 - Managing risk in a changing economic and financial landscape (356.0K)
  Remarks at the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade, and Institute of International Bankers Conference, New York, New York

• July 21, 2005 - Monetary policy perspectives on risk premiums in financial markets (43.0K)
  Remarks to the Financial Markets Risk Premiums Conference, Board of Governors Martin Building, Washington D.C.

• August 27, 2005 - Comments on Raghuram G. Rajan's Paper "Has Financial Development Made the World Riskier?" (290.5K)
  Remarks at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City Economic Symposium.

• September 29, 2005 - Inflation Modeling: A Policymaker's Perspective (311.0K)
  Remarks at the Quantitative Evidence on Price Determination Conference.

• October 11, 2005 - Globalization, inflation, and monetary policy (604.2K)
  Remarks at the James R. Wilson Lecture Series at the College of Wooster, Ohio

• October 19, 2005 - The economic outlook (391.5K)
  Remarks at the Global Investment and Economic Outlook Conference, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2006

• March 1, 2006 - Statement before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate (172.5K)

• March 16, 2006 - Remarks (548.4K)
  Before an ECB colloquium held in honor of Ottmar Issing, Frankfurt, Germany, "Monetary Policy: A Journal from Theory to Practice"

• April 13, 2006 - Economic outlook (75.2K)
  Remarks at the Banker and Business Leaders Luncheon sponsored by the Board of Directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City and the Oklahoma City Branch Office, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

• April 27, 2006 - Business capital spending (83.8K)
  Remarks at the Forecasters Club of New York Luncheon, New York, New York

• May 11, 2006 - Investing in payment innovations - A Federal Reserve perspective (91.1K)
  Remarks at the 2006 Payments Conference Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

• May 18, 2006 - The evolving nature of the financial system - Financial crises and the role of the central bank (105.3K)
  Conference on New Directions for Understanding Systemic Risk co sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the National Academy of Sciences, New York, New York

• June 8, 2006 - Statement before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate (42.9K)

• June 16, 2006 - The effects of globalization on inflation and their implications for monetary policy (103.9K)
  Remarks at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's 51st Economic Conference, "Global Imbalances as Giants Evolve," Chatham, Massachusetts

• July 6, 2006 - Reflections on globalization and policies (485.2K)
  Remarks at the European Economics and Financial Centre Seminar, House of Commons, London

• September 11, 2006 - Evolution of retail payments and the role of the Federal Reserve (107.9K)
  Remarks at the Western Payments Alliance 2006 Payments Symposium, Las Vegas, Nevada

• October 4, 2006 - Economic outlook (417.7K)
  Remarks at the Money Marketeers of New York University, New York

• November 3, 2006 - The evolving role of the Federal Reserve Banks (102.2K)
  Remarks at the American Bar Association, Banking Law Section, Washington, D.C.

• December 1, 2006 - Monetary policy and uncertainty (484.5K)
  Remarks at the 4th Conference of the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy, Washington, D.C.

2007

• January 8, 2007 - The economic outlook (376.3K)
  Remarks at the Atlanta Rotary Club, Atlanta, GA

• February 21, 2007 - Financial stability: Preventing and managing crises (87.6K)
  Remarks at the Exchequer Club Luncheon, Washington, D.C.

• February 28, 2007 - Statement before the Special Committee on Aging, United States Senate (301.2K)

• March 9, 2007 - Comments on 'Understanding the Evolving Inflation Process' by Stephen G. Cecchetti, Peter Hooper, Bruce C. Kasman (310.3K)
  Remarks at the U.S. Monetary Policy Forum, Washington, D.C.

• March 22, 2007 - Asset pricing puzzles, credit risk, and credit derivatives (92.5K)
  Remarks at the Conference on Credit Risk and Credit Derivatives, Washington, D.C.

• April 25, 2007 - Statement before the Committee on Financial Services, House of Representatives (589.8K)

• May 16, 2007 - Remarks (355.0K)
  Remarks at the 2007 Financial Markets Conference, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Sea Island, Georgia

• September 21, 2007 - Success and failure of monetary policy since the 1950s (349.4K)
  Remarks at a conference to mark the 50th anniversary of the Deutsche Bundesbank, 'Monetary Policy Over 50 Years,' Frankfurt, Germany

• October 5, 2007 - Economic outlook (353.4K)
  Remarks at the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce 207th Annual Meeting, Philadelphia

• October 12, 2007 - John Taylor rules (452.5K)
  Remarks at the Conference on John Taylor's Contributions to Monetary Theory and Policy, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

• November 28, 2007 - Financial markets and central banking (288.6K)
  Remarks at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York, New York

2008

• January 4, 2008 - Expertise and macroeconomic policy (305.4K)
  Comments on 'Insiders versus Outsiders in Monetary Policy-Making' by Timothy Besley, Neil Meads and Paolo Surico, at the American Economic Association/ Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana

• January 5, 2008 - Recent and prospective developments in monetary policy. Transparency and communications: A global perspective (383.6K)
  Remarks at the National Association for Business Economics Session at the American Economic Association / Allied Social Science Associations Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana

• February 26, 2008 - The U.S. economy and monetary policy (587.0K)
  Remarks at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington

• March 4, 2008 - Statement before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate (615.7K)

• March 7, 2008 - Implications of globalization for the conduct of monetary policy (268.0K)
  Remarks at the International Symposium of the Banque de France, Paris

• April 7, 2008 - Dedication of the new Seattle branch building (140.7K)
  Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Seattle Branch, Renton, Washington

• April 17, 2008 - The changing business of banking: Implications for financial stability and lessons from recent market turmoil (628.1K)
  Remarks at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's Credit Market Symposium, Charlotte, North Carolina

• May 20, 2008 - The Economic Outlook (511.4K)
  Remarks at the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems Annual Conference, New Orleans, Louisiana

• May 29, 2008 - Money markets and financial stability (556.5K)
  Remarks at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Columbia Business School Conference on the Role of Money Markets, New York

• June 5, 2008 - Statement before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate (397.8K)

• June 11, 2008 - Lessons for central bankers from a Philips Curve framework (597.5K)
  Remarks at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's 52nd Annual Economic Conference

• June 19, 2008 - Statement before the Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and Investment, Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate (469.9K)

• June 26, 2008 - Global economic integration and decoupling (535.8K)
  Remarks at the International Research Forum on Monetary Policy, Frankfurt, Germany

• September 11, 2008 - Comments (275.7K)
  Comments at the 2008 Fall Conference on the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Washington, D.C.

• October 15, 2008 - Economic outlook (423.1K)
  Remarks at the Georgetown University Wall Street Alliance, New York, New York

• November 12, 2008 - Productivity and innovation in financial services (472.6K)
  Remarks at the official celebration of the 10th Anniversary of the Banque Centrale du Luxembourg

• November 19, 2008 - Monetary policy and asset prices revisited (699.8K)
  Remarks at the Cato Institute 26th Annual Monetary Policy Conference: "Lessons from the Subprime Crisis," Washington, D.C.

• December 8, 2008 - Restoring financial intermediation by banks: The role of regulators (23.4K)
  Remarks at the Office of Thrift Supervision National Housing Forum, Washington, D.C.

2009

• January 13, 2009 - Statement before the Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives (195.8K)

• March 5, 2009 - Statement before the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, United States Senate (43.2K)

• April 3, 2009 - Policies to Bring Us Out of the Financial Crisis and Recession: Remarks at the Forum on Great Decisions in the Economic Crisis, College of Wooster, Wooster, Ohio (59.6K)

• April 18, 2009 - Monetary Policy in the Financial Crisis: Remarks at the Conference in Honor of Dewey Daane, Financial Markets Research Center, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee (116.4K)

• April 20, 2009 - The Economic Outlook: Remarks at the Hutchinson Lecture, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware (122.7K)

• May 23, 2009 - Interactions between Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the Current Situation: Remarks at a Conference on Monetary-Fiscal Policy Interactions, Expectations, and Dynamics in the Current Economic Crisis, Sponsored by Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University's Center for Economic Policy Studies, Indiana University's Center for Applied Economics and Policy Research, at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey (103.4K)

• June 25, 2009 - Comments on Financial Intermediation and the Post-Crisis Financial System by Hyun Song Shin, at the Eighth BIS Annual Conference 2009, Financial System and Macroeconomic Resilience: Revisited, June 25-26, 2009, Basel, Switzerland (73.5K)

• July 9, 2009 - Statement / by Donald Kohn ... before the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology, Committee on Financial Services, U.S. House of Representatives (174.9K)

• September 10, 2009 - Comments on "Interpreting the Unconventional U.S. Monetary Policy of 2007-09" : Remarks at the Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. (210.1K)

• September 30, 2009 - Central Bank Exit Policies: Remarks at the Shadow Open Market Committee Meeting at the Cato Institute, Washington, D.C. (17.3K)

• October 9, 2009 - Monetary Policy Research and the Financial Crisis: Strengths and Shortcomings: Remarks at the Federal Reserve Board Conference on Key Developments in Monetary Economics, Washington, D.C. (178.4K)

• October 13, 2009 - The economic outlook : remarks at the National Association for Business Economics, St. Louis, Missouri (129.2K)

• October 23, 2009 - International perspective on the crisis and response : remarks at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 54th economic conference, Chatham, Massachusetts (87.4K)

• November 16, 2009 - Policy Changes for the Federal Reserve: Remarks at Kellogg Distinguished Lecture Series, Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Evanston, Illinois (123.0K)

2010

• January 3, 2010 - Monetary policy in the crisis : past, present, and future : remarks at the Brimmer Policy Forum, American Economic Association annual meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (30.8K)

• January 29, 2010 - Focusing on bank interest rate risk exposure : remarks at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's Symposium on Interest Rate Risk Management, Arlington, Virginia (37.5K)

• March 24, 2010 - Homework assignments for monetary policymakers : remarks at the Cornelson Distinguished Lecture at Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina (50.1K)

• April 8, 2010 - The economic outlook : remarks at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Community Leaders luncheon, San Francisco, California (33.9K)

• May 11, 2010 - Global imbalances : remarks at the High-Level Conference on the International Monetary System, sponsored by the Swiss National Bank and the International Monetary Fund, Zurich, Switzerland (88.5K)

• May 13, 2010 - The Federal Reserve's policy actions during the financial crisis and lessons for the future : remarks at Carlton University, Ottawa, Canada (83.1K)