NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH, INC.

The Greek Crisis: Snapshot Plus Perspective

Jeffrey A. Frankel, Organizer

July 9, 2015 from 4:15 to 6:00 pm

Ballroom B
Royal Sonesta Hotel
40 Edwin Land Boulevard
Cambridge, MA

PROGRAM

Opening remarks from panel:

Richard Portes, London Business School and NBER

Carmen M. Reinhart, Harvard University and NBER

Gita Gopinath, Harvard University and NBER

Paolo A. Pesenti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and NBER

Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago and NBER

Followed by general discussion

Selected reading:

Anil Kashyap, "A Primer on the Greek Crisis: the things you need to know from the start until now," University of Chicago, June 29th, 2015. 
http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/anil.kashyap/research/papers/A-Primer-on-the-Greek-Crisis_june29.pdf

Elias Papaioannou, Richard Portes, Lucrezia Reichlin, "Greece: Seeking a Way Forward," Vox, 19 June 2015 
http://www.voxeu.org/article/greece-seeking-way-forward.

Elias Papaioannou, Richard Portes, Lucrezia Reichlin, "Greece: Seeking a Way Forward,” White paper - London, June 2015
http://www.nber.org/confer/2015/SI2015/GCs15/PPR%20-%20Greece%20White%20Paper%20190615.pdf

Carmen Reinhart, Testimony before the U.S. Senate Subcommitee on National Security and International Trade and Finance, June 25, 2015 
http://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/testimonies/carmen-reinhart-congressional-testimony-6.25.15

Jeff Frankel, "The Greek Debt Crisis: 3 Big Mistakes," Vox, May 16, 2011.
http://www.voxeu.org/article/greek-debt-crisis-ecb-s-three-big-mistakes.

Carmen Reinhart, "Forcible Currency Conversions: 1982-2015," July 7, 2015
http://conference.nber.org/confer/2015/SI2015/GCs15/Reinhart.pdf

Elias Papaioannou, Richard Portes and Lucrezia Reichlin “Before Greece becomes a failed state…” Reuters, July 7, 2015
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/07/07/before-greece-becomes-a-failed-state-heres-how-to-stop-the-slide/