The theme of this year's conference is "Frictions in Financial and Labor Markets." Several leading participants in this literature will present their research and commentary.
All events are at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Gateway Conference Center.
Please note that attendance is by invitation only.
To request to attend the conference, or for information about the conference or help with hotel reservations, please contact Denise Cain at denise.a.cain@stls.frb.org, (314) 444-8567, or 1-800-333-0810, ext. 44-8567.
| "Opening Remarks" | James Bullard, President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| "Financial Markets and Unemployment" | |
| Presenter: | Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California |
| Coauthors: | Tommaso Monacelli, Bocconi University Antonella Trigari, Bocconi University |
| Discussant: | Hernan J. Moscoso Boedo, University of Virginia |
| "Joint Search Theory: New Opportunities and New Frictions" | |
| Presenter: | Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota |
| Coauthors: | Bulent Guler, Indiana University—Bloomington Gianluca Violante, New York University |
| Discussant: | John Kennan, University of Wisconsin—Madison |
| "Equilibrium Price Dispersion and Rigidity: A New Monetarist Approach" | |
| Presenter: | Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania |
| Coauthors: | Allen Head, Queen's University Lucy Qian Liu, International Monetary Fund Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin—Madison |
| Discussant: | Nancy Stokey, University of Chicago |
| "Quantifying the Impact of Financial Development on Economic Development" | |
| Presenter: | Jeremy Greenwood, University of Pennsylvania |
| Coauthors: | Juan M. Sanchez, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Cheng Wang, Iowa State University |
| Discussant: | Gary Hansen, University of California—Los Angeles |
| "Middle-Men in Limit Order Markets" | |
| Presenter: | Boyan Jovanovic, New York University |
| Coauthor: | Albert Menkveld, Vrije Universiteit—Amsterdam |
| Discussant: | B. Ravikumar, University of Iowa |
| "Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession" | |
| Presenter: | Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania |
| Coauthors: | Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Victor Rios-Rull, University of Minnesota |
| Discussant: | Larry E. Jones, University of Minnesota |
| "Finance and Misallocation: Evidence from Plant-Level Data" | |
| Presenter: | Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University |
| Coauthor: | Yi Xu, New York University |
| Discussant: | Manuel Santos, University of Miami |
| "Social Security, Benefit Claiming, and Labor Force Participation: A Quantitative General Equilibrium Approach" | |
| Presenter: | Selahattin Imrohoroglu, University of Southern California |
| Coauthor: | Sagiri Kitao, Federal Reserve Bank of New York |
| Discussant: | Michele Boldrin, Washington University in St. Louis |
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