PARTICIPANTS

Agustín Carstens, John Taylor, Richard Anderson, Greg Baer, Michael Bauer, Sarah Bell, Michael Bernstam, Lauren Blum, Valentin Bolotnyy, Michael Bordo, Jimmy Chang, Stijn Claessens, John Cochrane, Adam Copeland, Francisco Covas, Steven Davis, Randi Dewitty, John Duca, Katrina Dudley, Darrell Duffie, Sebastian Edwards, Christopher Erceg, Andy Filardo, Jill Forde, Jacob Frenkel, Linda Goldberg, Lawrence Goodman, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Robert Hall, Michael Hartney, Thomas Helbling, Laurie Hodrick, Robert Hodrick, Nicholas Hope, Peter Ireland, Jeff Kearns, Robert King, Alissa Kleinnijenhuis, Stephen Kotkin, Jeffrey Lacker, John Lipsky, Dennis Lockhart, Eric Martin, Michael Melvin, Axel Merk, Kris Mitchener, David Mulford, Koji Nakamura, Edward Nelson, William Nelson, Kana Norimoto, Athanasios Orphanides, Rob Oster, Elena Pastorino, Paul Peterson, Monika Piazzesi, Charles Plosser, Ned Prescott, Gerardo Rodriguez, Hyun Song Shin, George Shultz, Pierre Siklos, Gabriel Sod Hoffs, Alan Soughley, Thomas Stephenson, Christine Strong, Derek Tang, Yevgeniy Teryoshin, Glenn Tiffert, Jim Van Horne, Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, Eric Wakin, Carl Walsh

ISSUES DISCUSSED

Agustín Carstens, General Manager at the Bank for International Settlements, discussed “Central Bank Digital Currencies and the Future of the Monetary System.” John Taylor, the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, was the moderator.

To read the paper by Agustín Carstens, click here: https://www.bis.org/speeches/sp210127.pdf
You will find the presentation slides already embedded in the paper. 

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