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Congressional Testimony

“Testimony on 'Performance-Based Pay'” Hearings Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Small Business Committee, U.S. House of Representatives, 103d Congress, July 15, 1994
“Testimony on 'Community Development Banks'” Hearings of the Committee on Banking, U.S. Senate, September 8, 1993 - leading to the passage of the CDFI Act of 1994
“Testimony on 'Banking of Small Business: Can the Community Development Bank Model Serve Small Firms in Economically Depressed Urban and Rural Communities?'” Subcommittee on Regulation, Business Opportunities, and Technology of the Small Business Committee U.S. House of Representatives, 103d Congress, June 7, 1993 - leading to the passage of the CDFI Act of 1994

Speeches and Presentations

Recent Engagements

2019	"Prospects and Policies for Greece Growing Faster" at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, January 23
2018	Speaker, Mexican Congress, “National Development Banks: Vehicles for Economic and Social Development” in Mexico City, Mexico, November 29
2016	Speaker, workshop “Guaranteed Employment Program: An Alternative to Austerity” co-sponsored by The Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the GSEE Labour Institute and the Levy Institute on “Guaranteed Employment: An Alternate Policy for Full Employment” in Athens, Greece, March 2
2015	Speaker, Central Bank of Argentina Money and Banking Conference "Money, Finance and the Real Economy; Towards Full Employment and an Inclusive Growth" in Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 4-5 "Prospects and Policies for Greece After SYRIZA" at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, MA, March 10

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2014

Speaker, Conference on "After the EU Elections – Old Problems and New Challenges" on “More Europe, Enough Europe, Less Europe?” in Berlin, Germany, July 2-3
Speaker, Stavros Niarchos Foundation Conference on "Recharging the Youth" on “Youth Unemployment: The Case of Greece” in New York City, April 3-4

2013

Speaker, Paris-13 Seminar "The Crisis in Greece and the Eurozone: A Union of Austerity or a Union of Growth" in Paris, France, December 23
Speaker, International Conference on Applied Business and Economics (ICABE) conference "Banking Can Never Live in a House of Glass-Steagall: Will Dodd-Frank Prevent "It" from Happening Again?" in New York City, October 2-4
Speaker, Conference co-sponsored by the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College and the Athens Development and Governance Institute “Exiting the Crisis: The Challenge of an Alternative Policy Roadmap” in Athens, Greece, March 8-9

2012

Speaker, the Women's Economic Round Table program "Risk and Reward in the Financial System: What Keeps You Awake at Night? " in New York City, September 20
Speaker, the International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics GEM-IWG and GEM-Europe Summer Institute and International Symposium "The Evolution of Finance and Monetary Policy: Changing Objectives and Gender Implications " in Krakow, Poland, July 17-29
Keynote speaker, Athenian Policy Forum Conference "Asymmetric Economic Consequences of the Global Financial Crisis " on "The U.S. Economic Outlook after the Global Financial Crisis " in Chalkidiki, Greece, July 1-3
Speaker, Conference co-sponsored by the >Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, The Institute of Economics of Nankai University (NKIE), and The Center for Political Economics Studies of Nankai University "Minsky: Global Financial Fragility and the Development of Capitalist Finance " in Tianjin, China, June 9-10
"Greek Crisis and the Second Bail-Out " for ECLA of Bard in Berlin, Germany, February 23

2011

Speaker, Greek General Confederation of Labour Institute Conference "The Debt Crisis In Greece And The Eurozone: Is There A Solution? in Athens, Greece, December 8
Keynote speaker, The International Working Group on Gender, Macroeconomics and International Economics GEM-IWG, GEM- Europe and GEM-Turkey International Symposium "Gender Perspectives on the Current Economic Crisis in Europe and Beyond " on "The End of the Eurozone? Structural Imbalances, Fiscal Austerity and the Inadequacy of Current Responses to the Sovereign Debt Crisis " in Istanbul, Turkey, October 17
Speaker, GEM-IWG Knowledge Networking Program on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics 1st Regional European Workshop "Monetary Policy in Historical Perspective: Changing Objectives of Monetary Policy-Gender Implications " in Istanbul, Turkey, October 13
Speaker, The Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee (RBWC) and the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP) conference "From the Breakdown of the Bretton Woods System to a New Era of Macro Prudential Oversight? " in Cuzco, Peru, July 18-19
Speaker, CFDA/UNIFEM conference "Towards Harmonization of Time Use Surveys at the Global Level with Special Reference to Developing Countries " in New Delhi, India, April 6-8
"The Greek Crisis and the Future of the Euro Project " for the World Affairs Council of the Mid-Hudson Valley, March 10

2010

Discussion leader, ILO-IMF conference "Challenges of Growth, Employment, and Social Cohesion " in Oslo, Norway, September 13
"Economic Outlook for the U.S. and Global Economy, " at the University of Macedonia in Greece, March 22
"Global Imbalances After the Economic Crisis, " at the International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) conference in India, January 25-27

2009

"The ‘Great Recession’ and Beyond: Economic Outlook for the U.S. and Global Economy, " at the University of Athens in Greece, November 24
"Is There Still a Paradigm for Monetary Policy Today? " at the Euro50 Group Meeting in Paris, November 20
"Global Imbalances After the Economic Crisis, " at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization conference, November 12-13
"Addressing Global Imbalances After the Economic Crisis, " (with Gennaro Zezza) at the 13th conference of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies in Germany, October 30-31
"A Time of Upheaval, " at the HSBC Emerging Markets Conference in Switzerland, September 8
"Global Imbalances and Economic Growth, " the XXI Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar in Italy, June 25
"Full Employment Policy: Theory and Practice, " the Global Foundation, Democracy and Development in the Dominican Republic, April 27-28
Panelist, workshop organized by Socialist International on the global economic crisis, recovery, governance and regulatory reform, March 31

2008

"The Economic Crisis: What went wrong and what to do now " at Bard College, November 20
"The new New Deal, " Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Great Barrington, MA, November 19
Panelist in a session entitled "A New Domestic Financial Architecture " at the conference on "The Financial Crisis, the US Economy, and International Security in the New Administration organized by Economists for Peace and Security, the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation and the Levy Economics Institute held at the New School for Social Research in New York City, November 14
"Contemporary Economic Issues: The U.S. Economic Outlook, " Marist College’s Center for Lifetime Studies, October 7
"The U.S. Economy: The Road Ahead, " Bard College’s Lifetime Learning Institute, September 9
"Employer of Last Resort: The International Experience, " the International Conference on Employment Opportunities and Public Employment in Globalising India sponsored by the Centre for Development Studies, Trivandrum, India, April 3-5

2007

"Global Imbalances: The U.S. and the Rest of the World, " the Eleventh Research Network Macroeconomic Policies Conference on Finance-Led Capitalism? Macroeconomic Effects of Changes in the Financial Sector, Berlin, Germany, October 26
Keynote speaker, 12^th Regional Seminar for Labor-Based Practitioners, "Prioritizing Employment in Government Policies and Investments in Infrastructure Programs, " sponsored by the International Labour Organization, Durban, South Africa, October 8-12
"Employment Policies: Theory and Practice, " the Eighth International Conference on Engendering Macroeconomics and International Economics, Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, July 20-22

2006

"Global Imbalances: The Role of U.S. and China, " the International Forum on Comparative Political Economy of Globalization, Renmin University, Beijing (China), September 1-3
Speaker, The AFL-CIO and the U.S. Business and Industry Council conference "Trade Summit 2006: Crisis and Opportunity, " the National Press Club, Washington, DC, July 12
Guest speaker, the BritishAmerican Business Inc. "Economic Panel: A Check on Corporate and Consumer Health, " New York City, February 9
Guest Speaker, "The Outlook for the US Economy, " conference on "International Monetary Policy: The Role of Aspect Prices in Central Banking, " St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, January 12-14

2005

Keynote speaker, "The United States and Her Creditors, " the Centre for Full Employment and Equity, The University of Newcastle, Australia, December 8-9
Participant and discussant, "Keynesian Money Endogeneity, " the International Conference, Cassino, Italy, September 16-17
"Inflation Targeting and Full Employment Schemes and Gender " and roundtable discussant, "Finance and Monetary Policy in Historical Perspective and Inflation Targeting and Its Alternatives ", University of Utah, June 8
How Fragile is the U.S. Economy?, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China, March 14

2004

"Is the Jobless Economic Growth Sustainable? Policies and Prospects in an Election Year, " University of Utah, February 27
"Is the U.S. Recovery Sustainable, " Panteion University, Athens, January 2

2003

"Government Deficits and Growth, " Center for Full Employment and Price Stability conference, University of Missouri, Kansas City, November 17
Panelist, conference on macroeconomics and gender, University of Utah, June
Panelist, "Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade " conference at New School University, New York City, April

2002

"The Revival of Keynesian Economics, " "Reconstituting the Financial Structure, " and "Community Development Banking, " Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, PRC, October
"Recession and Recovery: Guidelines for Policy, " International Applied Business Research Conference, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, March 15
"‘Rational Allocation of Resources’ or ‘Scarcity’ Are Not the Economic Problems, " Religious Belief and Economic Behavior, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, March 6
"The U.S. Recession: Can the Federal Reserve Pick up the Tempo? " The Stern School, New York University, New York City, February 22

2001

Press conference, "Strategic Concerns Generated by the U.S. Trade Deficit, " U.S. Business and Industry Council, Washington, DC, February 20
Press conference, discussing the publication of Jeff Madrick’s "Unconventional Wisdom: Alternative Perspectives on the New Economy, " Century Foundation, New York City, January 26

2000

"Full Employment Policy: Theory and Practice " International Finance Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 4-6
"Prospects for Full Employment: Theory and Evidence " and "Can Social Security Be Saved, " Western Economic Association’s International Conference, Vancouver, June 30
"The State of the U.S. Economy " and "Full Employment Policy and the Benefits of Public Investment, " St. Petersburg State University, Russia, April 4-6
"The Budget Surplus and that State of the U.S. Economy, " Eastern Economic Association, Crystal City, Virginia, March 24-26

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