Jackson Hole redux
Last night, as part of The Risk Telescope, I voiced irritation with the Kansas City Fed’s lack of transparency regarding papers commissioned and presented at the Jackson Hole conference. It seems I was not the only person frustrated by this old-fashioned policy.
FT Alphaville reports that the entire program (speaker list; participant list; PDFs of presentations) has now appeared on the Kansas City Fed website. You can access those papers now. There are 12 papers/PDFs/links on the website. Before today, only half of those (6) were available publicly. The process of finding them was tedious. One had to piece together who had spoken from media reports and then go to individual websites to find the documents. Not all documents prepared by academics were available publicly yesterday…but of course all speeches by policymakers in positions of authority (e.g., Bernanke; Trichet; Lipsky) were available.
Of course, readers of The Risk Telescope have already received analysis of the six papers that were available independently yesterday. They will receive analysis of the remaining papers in the next day or so. Don’t hesitate to let us know if you want to join the community of financial professionals tracking these important issues.
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