History of MMT and the euro, 1996 Bretton Woods Conference

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To: PKT Academics
Re: Bretton Woods Conference

Confirmed attendance includes senior staff from Deutchebank,
Credit Suisse, J.P. Morgan, Banker’s Trust, Salomon Bros,
Lehman Bros, Harvard Management, III, Petrus, Paine Webber,
Paribas, and BZW. A keynote speaker will be Professor Charles
Goodhart from the LSE. Bernard Connolly will be the historian.
Speakers for each topic are currently being arranged.

There is currently room for two academic representatives.
Please contact me at mosler@xxxxxxxx if you have interest.

A FRAMEWORK FOR ECONOMIC ANALYSIS

An Invitational Conference

Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

June 12-15, 1996

The purpose of this conference is to bring together a selected
group of portfolio managers, analysts, researchers
traders, and academics who have a common understanding
of monetary operations.

The objective of this conference is to achieve agreement on the use
of a common conceptual framework for undertaking
contemporary macroeconomic analysis.

Portfolio managers in attendance are responsible for well over
$50 billion in assets. The economists and analysts from the
international dealer community represent some of the world?s
largest and most sophisticated fixed income trading and sales
operations.

We believe that this group has the potential to establish an international
standard for the presentation and analysis of economic data.

Several of the fundamentals are Post Keynesian…

Deposit money is endogenous
Central Banks set short term rates exogenously
Deposits exist solely as the result of loans

Extension of these fundamentals includes…


Internal sovereign debt functions as interest
rate support
Taxes create a demand for the goverment’s
currency
Fiat currency is defined exogenously

Conference Moderator……..Warren B. Mosler

Wednesday, June 12, 1996

11:30 AM Welcome and Introduction
12:00 PM Luncheon
12:30 PM History of the Awareness of Monetary Operations
Charles Goodheart

MONETARY OPERATIONS

1:00 PM Review of the Fundamentals of Monetary Operations
1:30 PM Monetary Policy Options


MACROECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALS

2:00 PM The function of Government Securities
2:30 PM Currency Definition
3:00 PM Fiscal Policy Options and Implications


EXTERNAL DEBT

3:30 PM Review of Current Conditions
4:00 PM Macro-economic Implications
4:30 PM World Bank, IMF Policy Implications
6:00 PM Hor?s d?ouvres
7:00 PM Dinner

THURSDAY, JUNE 13

ESTABLISHING THE FRAMEWORK

9:00 AM Integrating Foreign Trade, Investment, Fiscal and Monetary
Policy
10:00 AM Full Employment, Zero Inflation Model
11:30 AM Lunch

RAMIFICATIONS OF MONETARY UNION

1:00 PM Current Political Situation
Bernard Connolly
2:00 PM Maastricht Fiscal Criteria Implications
3:00 PM Post 1999 Credit Implications
3:30 PM Functionality of the Euro
4:30 PM Drafting a Consensus
6:00 PM Hor’s d’Ouvres
7:00 PM Dinner

FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1995

Review and Discussion

Warren B. Mosler
Director of Economic Analysis
III Finance

See “Soft Currency Economics:”