Event Registration

LIVE WEBCAST: 6th annual Municipal Finance Conference

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

Where: https://www.brookings.edu/events/6th-annual-municipal-finance-conference/ 

What: 

The Municipal Finance Conference aims to bring together academics, practitioners, issuers and regulators to discuss recent research on municipal markets and municipal finance. On July 17 and 18, the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings will partner with the Rosenberg Institute of Global Finance at 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 to host the 6th annual conference at Brookings.

Registration for this year’s conference is closed, but we invite interested parties to tune in via live webcast to our plenary session and our closing panel:

Monday, July 17

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)
  Moderator: Rich Ryffel (Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis)
  Panelists: Natalie Cohen (Wells Fargo), Colin MacNaught (BondLink), Brad Wendt (Charles River Associates)

Tuesday, July 18

11:45 a.m. -- Panel: What are the obstacles to increased public infrastructure investment?

• Moderator: David Wessel (Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings)
  Panelists: Tyler Duvall (McKinsey & Company), Sarah Kline (Bipartisan Policy Center, SK Solutions), Lois Scott (Former CFO, City of Chicago), Stephen Wood (Stephen A. Wood Consulting, LLC)