Presentations

This video includes William White’s presentation at an American Enterprise Institute conference in Washington on 14 February 2018. Mr White’s remarks begin about one hour after the start, which featured a presentation by Alan Greenspan.

The bubble economy — Is this time different?

This presentation was made at a conference in Switzerland, organized as part of the debate in preperation for a popular referendum on the adoption of a “narrow money” proposal. My presentation made the case for thinking more radically about system reform than has been done to date.

William White, as chairman of the Economic and Development Review Committee at the OECD, was invited to speak to the Ambassadors at their annual retreat on the topic of the future work program of the OECD. He gave strong support to the OECD project called NAEC, New Approaches to Economic Challenges. This project was initiated by the Secretary General in recognition of the shortcomings of the analytical appraches relied upon prior to the crisis, which failed to see the crisis coming and also failed to predict both its magnitude and duration.

William White  was asked by the organizers to sum up the proceedings at the end of the conference. These are his personal observations. The offical summary, jointly drafted with the conference organizers, is on this website under Publications.

In this presentation, William White suggests criteria for allocating  the respsonsibility for macroprudential policies between domestic institutions. He concludes that there are strong grounds for the central bank playing a leading role, particularly with policies designed to prevent crises.

SARB2017PDF
 

This presentation was made at the IMD Global Board Center in Lausanne. It concludes that, while many positive changes have been made, systemic risks still remain. This justifies some more radical thoughts about financial regulation going forward.

Public Finance Dialogue – Berlin 24 25 April 2017.

Presentation at the Bundesministerium der Finanzen and ZEW

University of Lucerne
Faculty of Law
3 November, 2016

“The Brave New World of Central Banking”

Presentation at the Eurofi High Level Seminar, April 20-22 – Amsterdam

William White contributed in a variety of ways to the recent Eurofi High Level Seminar in Amsterdam. First, he had an exchange of views with Philippe Bordenave (BNP Paribas) on the impact of ultra low interest rates on European financial institutions and on their customers. Second, he chaired a panel on the challenges posed by the aging EU population for the financial sector. Third, he summarized the main findings of the sessions that took place on the first day (April 20) of the conference, including those noted above.

EurofiSummaryApril2016.pdf

Presentation made at the 8thAnnual  Meeting of the OECD Parliamentary Budget Officials and Independent Fiscal Institutions at the OECD Headquarters on 11 – 12 April 2016.

Modern Macroeconomics is NOT a science