Upcoming Events
Clark Center European Economic Experts Conference 2026
October 8-9, 2026
The Clark Center will host the European Economic Experts Conference. Topics include sessions on five pressing economic categories: Rule of Law and Populism; European Bureaucracy and Innovation Constraints; Defense Investments; Stablecoin; and Climate and Energy. There will also be analysis of the responses to the experts panels that are run by the Clark Center for Global Markets.
Signature Events
Clark Center Policy Talks
In the Clark Center Policy Talk Series, academics, current and former policymakers, and economic experts explore timely issues in economics and policy.
Clark Center Policy Talks
Clark Center Experts Conference Series
The Clark Center Experts Conference Series is a yearly meeting that rotates amongst the three Clark Center Experts Panels (the US, the European, and the Finance Panel).
Clark Center Experts Conference Series
US Monetary Policy Forum
This annual conference brings together policymakers, leading scholars, and market economists to discuss US monetary policy. In advance of each event, members of the forum’s panel of scholars produce a report on a different critical issue confronting the Federal Open Market Committee.
US Monetary Policy Forum
Chicago Booth Market Design Conference
This yearly conference for Market Design faculty—both junior and senior—to present their current research. The annual conference is held in Hyde Park.
Chicago Booth Market Design ConferencePast Clark Center Events
June 8–9, 2026
3rd Annual Chicago Booth Market Design Conference
March 6, 2026
2026 US Monetary Policy Forum
November 11, 2025
Clark Center Book Talk: Lucky by Design
October 8–9, 2025
Clark Center Economic Experts Conference 2025
October 8, 2025
Challenges for the Media in Covering Trade, Climate, and Macroeconomic Policy
October 7, 2025
Clark Center Policy Talk: What's New in the Global Economy and the Financial System
June 9-10, 2025
2nd Annual Chicago Booth Market Design Conference
April 29, 2025
Clark Center Policy Talk: Trump’s Tariffs and Biden’s Treasury
April 15, 2025
Clark Center Policy Talk The Outlook for the Economy
March 7, 2024
2025 US Monetary Policy Forum
October 10, 2024
Clark Center Policy Talk: The Outlook for Global Monetary Policy
October 3-4, 2024
Clark Center Finance Experts Conference 2024
October 3, 2024
AI In Finance
June 27-28, 2024
1st Annual Market Design Conference
June 17-18, 2024
Marshall Scholars Forum
May 16, 2024
Clark Center Policy Talk: Politics and Financial Markets
March 1, 2024
2024 US Monetary Policy Forum
January 30, 2024
Clark Center Policy Talk: Monetary Policy in the United States
October 16, 2023
Clark Center Policy Talk: Artificial Intelligence
October 13, 2023
The Chicago School of Finance at 125
October 5, 2023
China, Shifting Geopolitics, and the Global Economy
October 5-6, 2023
Economic Experts Conference 2023
APRIL 4, 2023
The Myth of American Inequality
MARCH 23, 2023
A Conversation Regarding the Recent Global Banking Turmoil
MARCH 3, 2023
A Workshop on Market Dysfunction
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
2023 US Monetary Policy Forum
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
Adam Smith and the Chicago School of Economics: A Conversation with Sam Peltzman
APRIL 28-29, 2022
The Role of Economics and Economists in Public Policy and Public Debate
FEBRUARY 18, 2022
2022 US Monetary Policy Forum
APRIL 9, 2020
Modeling the Economic Effects of the COVID-19 Crisis
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
2020 US Monetary Policy Forum
FEBRUARY 22, 2019
2019 US Monetary Policy Forum
SEPTEMBER 13–14, 2018
The 10th Anniversary of Financial Crisis Conference
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
2018 US Monetary Policy Forum
SEPTEMBER 22–23, 2017
2017 Global Issues in Accounting Conference
MARCH 3, 2017
2017 US Monetary Policy Forum
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
A Closer Look at Household Debt and Business Cycles Worldwide
DECEMBER 6, 2016
The Future of Economic Policy Making: Lessons from the Fed and Presidential Advising
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
2016 US Monetary Policy Forum
NOVEMBER 10, 2015
The $13 Trillion Question: Managing the US Government’s Debt
OCTOBER 30, 2015
Where Interest Rates Will Be When the Economy Is (Finally) Healthy and Why It Matters
SEPTEMBER 18–19, 2015
Global Issues in Accounting Conference
MARCH 27, 2015
Sovereign Debt Restructuring Conference
FEBRUARY 27, 2015
2015 US Monetary Policy Forum
OCTOBER 24, 2014
Political Economy in the Chicago Area
OCTOBER 23, 2014
Journal of Economic Perspectives Symposium on the 2008–09 Bailouts
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
2014 US Monetary Policy Forum
DECEMBER 6, 2013
Political Economy in the Chicago Area (PECA)
FEBRUARY 22, 2013
2013 US Monetary Policy Forum
FEBRUARY 8, 2013
How Costly Would a Euro Exit Be?
NOVEMBER 9, 2012
Political Economy in the Chicago Area
FEBRUARY 24, 2012
2012 US Monetary Policy Forum
NOVEMBER 11, 2011
Political Economy in the Chicago Area
JUNE 24–26, 2011
Grossman and Hart at 25
FEBRUARY 25, 2011
2011 US Monetary Policy Forum
OCTOBER 13, 2010
Political Economy in the Chicago Area
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
2010 US Monetary Policy Forum
OCTOBER 9, 2009
Political Economy in the Chicago Area
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
2009 US Monetary Policy Forum
DECEMBER 11–12, 2008
Japan’s Bubble, Deflation, and Long-Term Stagnation
MAY 23, 2008
Political Economy in the Chicago Area
MAY 9–10, 2008
The Journal of Accounting Research Conference
FEBRUARY 29, 2008
2008 US Monetary Policy Forum
FEBRUARY 14, 2008
Global Business and Politics (London)
NOVEMBER 9–10, 2007
The Emergence of Social Organization: What Are We Missing?
MARCH 9, 2007
2007 US Monetary Policy Forum