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    6th annual Municipal Finance Conference

    When: Monday, July 17 - Tuesday, July 18, 2017

    Where:  The Brookings Institution, Falk Auditorium, 1775 Massachusetts Ave, NW, Washington, DC
                    The Capitol Hilton, 1001 16th St. NW, Washington, DC

    What: 

    The Municipal Finance Conference aims to bring together academics, practitioners, issuers and regulators to discuss recent research on municipal markets and municipal finance. This year’s conference is a joint venture of The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary at Brookings, the Brandeis International Business School, the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, and the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago.

    The 2017 conference will take place on July 17-18, 2017. Brookings will host the bulk of the program, but the cocktail hour and dinner keynote on the evening of July 17 will take place at the nearby Capital Hilton.

    Monday, July 17

    1:00 p.m. -- Registration opens

    1:30 p.m. -- Plenary I 

    • Changes in the municipal capital markets since the Great Recession
      Dan Bergstresser (Brandeis International Business School) and Martin Luby (UT Austin)

    2:30 p.m. -- Break

    2:45 p.m. -- Breakout session I

    Track 1
    • Investment risk-taking by public pension plans: Potential consequences for pension funds, state and local governments, and stakeholders in government
      Don Boyd (SUNY Rockefeller Institute of Government)
    • Risky choices: simulating public pension funding stress with realistic shocks
      James Farrell (Florida Southern College) & Dan Shoag (Harvard Kennedy School)
    • The impact of the VRA on municipal reform, pensions, and investments
      Richard Boylan (Rice University)
    		 Track 2
    • Creating a live yield curve in the illiquid muni market
      Andy Kalotay (Kalotay Associates)
    • Anchoring and the cost of municipal capital
      Justin Marlowe (Evans School of Public Policy, University of Washington)
    • Regulatory disclosure interventions in municipal securities secondary markets: Market price effects and the relative impacts on retail and institutional investors
      Komla Dzigbede (SUNY Binghamton)

    5:15 p.m. -- Cocktail hour
    at the Capitol Hilton

    6:30 p.m. -- Dinner and keynote
    at the Capitol Hilton

    Tuesday, July 18

    7:45 a.m. -- Breakfast

    8:30 a.m. -- Breakout session II

    Track 1
    • Bondholders vs. retirees in municipal bankruptcies: The political economy of Chapter 9
      Diane Dick (Seattle University School of Law)
    • Collective bargaining and state and local government pensions
      Brigham Frandsen (Brigham Young University)
    		 Track 2
    • The ceteris paribus relation between municipal reporting quality and the cost of debt
      Christine Cuny (NYU Stern School of Business)
    • Private placement of municipal debt: Lessons from California’s mandatory disclosure rule
      William Glasgall (Volcker Alliance)

    10:00 a.m. -- Break

    10:15 a.m. -- Plenary II

    • Fiscal resilience among U.S. states varies as economic expansion surpasses seven-year mark
      S&P Global
    • How rainy day funds influence state credit ratings
      Jonathan Moody (Pew Charitable Trusts)

    11:45 a.m. -- Panel discussion

    12:30 p.m. -- End of program
    Lunch available


    Accommodations

    The conference keynote and dinner will be held at the Capital Hilton on Monday, July 17. For your convenience, we have arranged for a block of rooms at the hotel at a priority rate. Use the code “BIBD” to book a room here.

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    This event has reached capacity and registration is now closed.
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