President Eric Rosengren of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston speaks, with responses by Catherine Mann of Brandeis University and Carlo Favero of Bocconi University.

Speaker / Author

Eric Rosengren, Ph.D.

President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Eric Rosengren is president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, one of 12 regional Federal Reserve banks. Eric is a participant in the Federal Open Market Committee, the monetary policymaking body of the United States. As CEO, Eric leads the Boston Fed’s work, which includes economic research and analysis, banking supervision and financial stability efforts, community economic development activities, and a wide range of payments, technology, and finance initiatives. Eric was appointed president in 2007 and has taken a rigorously data-driven approach in forming his views on the national and regional economy. His research and policy positions pay ... Read More

Catherine L. Mann, Ph.D.

Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England

Dr Catherine L Mann joined the Monetary Policy Committee of the Bank of England on 1 September 2021. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Economic Association, among others. Previously she was Chair of the Economic Advisory Committee of the American Bankers Association. And she was also a member of the Executive Board of the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, of the National Association for Business Economics, and of the advisory committees of the Federal Reserve Banks of Chicago, Boston, and New York, among others. Prior to her appointment, she was ... Read More

Carlo Favero, D.Phil.

Deutsche Bank Chair in Quantitative Finance and Asset Pricing

Carlo Favero holds a D.Phil. from Oxford University, where he was a member of the Oxford Econometrics Research Centre. He has been professor of econometrics at Bocconi University from 1994 to 2001 and professor of economics since 2002. In 2009 he joined the newly formed deptartment of finance at Bocconi University, where he teaches financial econometrics. He has published in scholarly journals on the econometric modelling of bond and stock prices, applied econometrics, monetary policy and  time-series models for macroeconomics and finance.  He is a research fellow of CEPR in the International Macroeconomics programme. He is president of the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for the Economic ... Read More