Jackson Hole Economic Symposium: Place where central bankers meet; here's why global investors are interested

The conference hosts about 120 attendees every year, including central bankers, academics, financial market participants, and finance ministers from around the world.

Past topics of consideration at the conference included: Implications of monetary policy (2020), challenges for monetary policy (2019), changing market structures and implications for monetary policy (2018), fostering a dynamic global economy (2017), and so on.

The main aim of the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium is to provide a platform where open discussions of economic issues can be held. The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City with the help of stakeholders finalise the topic for the annual conference.

Once the topic is finalised, experts and scholars in that field are required to write essays and research papers on subtopics that suit the selected theme.  Different topics critically related to world economies face are discussed threadbare every year. Policies, decisions, and transcripts resulting from the conference are made available to the public as they are published on the Fed Kansas City website.

Following this, a compilation is done after careful deliberations and then published.