Yuriy Gorodnichenko, a native of Ukraine, is a professor at the Department of Economics, University of California – Berkeley. He received his BA and MA at EERC/Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv, Ukraine) and his PhD at the University of Michigan. A significant part of his research has been about monetary policy (effects, optimal design, inflation targeting), fiscal policy (countercyclical policy, government spending multipliers), taxation (tax evasion, inequality), economic growth (long-run determinants, globalization, innovation, financial frictions), and business cycles. Yuriy serves on many editorial boards, including Journal of Monetary Economics and VoxUkraine. Yuriy is a prolific researcher. His work was published in leading economics journals (e.g., American Economic Review, Journal of Political Economy, Review of Economic Studies) and was cited in policy discussions and media. Yuriy has received numerous awards for his research.

James H. Stock is the Harold Hitchings Burbank Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Economics, Harvard University. He received a M.S. in statistics and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley. His research is in econometric methods, empirical macroeconomics, and environmental economics. He was Chair of the Harvard Economics Department from 2007-2009, was Co-Editor of Econometrica from 2009-2012, and was Member of President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2013-2014. He is a member of the NBER Business Cycle Dating Committee and is Co-Editor of Brookings Papers on Economic Activity.

Janice Eberly is the James R. and Helen D. Russell Professor of Finance at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. She also serves as editor of the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity. Professor Eberly’s research focuses on finance and macroeconomics.

Professor Eberly served as the assistant secretary for economic policy at the U.S. Treasury from 2011 to 2013. She was a Sloan Foundation Research Fellow, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2013. Additionally, Professor Eberly has published in leading academic and policy journals. She received her PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Jonathan Wright is a professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University, specializing in empirical macroeconomics, finance and time series econometrics. His recent topics of research include high-frequency effects of macroeconomic news announcements, forecasting, seasonal adjustment, the term structure of interest rates, and unconventional monetary policy. From 1999 to 2008, he worked at the Federal Reserve Board in the Divisions of International Finance and Monetary Affairs, ending as deputy associate director. Jonathan Wright did a BA at Trinity College Dublin, an MSc at the London School of Economics and a PhD at Harvard University.

John B. Taylor is the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University and the George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in Economics at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. An award-winning researcher and teacher specializing in monetary policy, macroeconomics, and international economics, he served as Senior Economist (1976–77) and Member (1989–91) of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, as Undersecretary of the Treasury for International Affairs (2001–2005), and recently on the G20 Eminent Persons Group on Global Financial Governance. His book Getting Off Track was one of the first on the financial crisis, and he won the Hayek Prize for First Principles.