The celebration in honor of John Taylor will feature 6 panels covering John’s many contributions. Stanford President Jon Levin will offer opening remarks. Panels will focus on macroeconomic policy models, rational expectations and overlapping contracts; the Taylor rule in macroeconomic modeling; international monetary policy and fiscal policy, John’s service in government, and his relationship to Milton Friedman. A collection of video tributes will be shown at the reception.

John B. Taylor is the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University. He is also the director of Stanford’s Introductory Economics Center. An award-winning teacher and researcher, he served as senior economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers from 1976–77, as a Member of the Council from 1989–91, and as Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs from 2001–05. More recently, he was President of the Mont Pelerin Society and served on the Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance created by the G20. His book Global Financial Warriors chronicles his policy innovations at the U.S. Treasury. His book First Principles won the Hayek Prize in 2012.  His most recent books are Choose Economic Freedom: Enduring Policy Lessons from the 1970s and 1980s (with George P. Shultz) and Reform of the International Monetary System.

The annual Hoover Monetary Policy conference will focus on “Finishing the Job and New Challenges.” An opening panel will focus on the Taylor Rule in central banking. The following panels will focus on digital assets, payments systems, and financial regulation; on how monetary policy can finish the job of ending inflation, and risks ahead; on global and strategic issues; on fiscal/debt sustainability and its interaction with monetary policy; and a closing policy panel featuring serving central bank officials.