 In 2012 he was chosen to present the Homer Jones Memorial Lecture at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.In October 2012, he delivered the keynote Bagehot at "The Economist"'s Buttonwood Gathering in New York.In November 2013, he delivered the luncheon speech at the IMF's Annual Research Conference that also featured Ben Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, Stanley Fischer, Ken Rogoff, and Larry Summers.