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Annual Economic Policy Conferences

Each year the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis sponsors an economic policy conference held during the fall. Beginning with the conference held in 1992, the conference proceedings were published the following year in the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis' Review. These articles are available in PDF format on this web site. Some of the proceedings published by Kluwer Academic Publishers are still in print.

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Information about the upcoming conference is available from the Economic Research Conferences page.

Past Conferences

"Monetary Policy Under Uncertainty" - 2007
32nd Annual Economic Policy Conference

"Frontiers in Monetary Policy Research" - 2006
31st Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review July/August 2007)

"Federal Credit and Insurance Programs" - 2005
30th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review July/August 2006)
Conference Photos and PowerPoint Presentations

"Productivity, Labor, and the Business Cycle" - 2004
29th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review July/August 2005)

"Inflation Targeting: Prospects and Problems" - 2003
28th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review July/August 2004)

"Finance and Real Economic Activity" - 2002
27th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review July/August 2003)

"Getting the Markets in Synch with Economic Policy" - 2001
26th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review July/August 2002)

"Monetary Policy in Theory and Practice: Essays in Honor of Darryl R. Francis" - 2000
25th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review July/August 2001)

"Multilateral Trade Negotiations: Issues for the Millennium Round" - 1999
24th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review July/August 2000)

"Labor Markets and Macroeconomics" - 1998
23rd Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review May/June 1999)

"Lessons From Financial History" - 1997
22nd Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review May/June 1998)

"Measuring Inflation and Real Growth" - 1996
21st Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review May/June 1997)

"Price Stability and Economic Growth" - 1995
20th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review May/June 1996)

"Channels of Monetary Policy" - 1994
19th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review May/June 1995)

"Money Stock Measurement: History, Theory and Implications" - 1993
18th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review March/April 1994)

"Dimensions of Monetary Policy: Essays in Honor of Anatol B. Balbach" - 1992
17th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: Review March/April 1993)

"The Business Cycle: Theories and Evidence" - 1991
16th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers)

"The Changing Market in Financial Services" - 1990
15th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers)

"Monetary Policy on the 75th Anniversary of the Federal Reserve System" - 1989
14th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers)

"The Stock Market: Bubbles, Volatility, and Chaos" - 1988
13th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers)

"U.S. Trade Deficit: Causes, Consequences, and Cures" - 1987
12th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers)

"Financial Risk: Theory, Evidence and Implications " - 1986
11th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers)

"How Open is the U.S. Economy?" - 1985
10th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published by Lexington Books) out of print

"The Monetary versus Fiscal Policy Debate: Lessons from Two Decades" - 1984
9th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published by Rowman & Allenheld)

"Bank Market Studies: a Review and Evaluation" - 1983
8th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published by Ohio State University Press Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 16, No. 4, Part 2: Bank Market Studies, Nov., 1984). This issue is available through Journal Storage (JSTOR). (A subscription is required to access information from this site.)

"Financial Innovations: Their Impact on Monetary Policy and Financial Markets" - 1982
7th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published by Kluwer-Nijhoff) out of print

"Improving Money Stock Control: Problems, Solutions, and Consequences" - 1981
6th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published by Kluwer-Nijhoff) out of print

"The Supply-side Effects of Economic Policy" - 1980
5th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: May 1981)

"Stabilization Policies: Lessons from the '70s and Implications for the '80s" - 1979
4th Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: April 1980)

"Alternative Policies to Combat Inflation" - 1978
3rd Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: January 1979)

"U.S. Productive Capacity: Estimating the Utilization Gap" - 1977
2nd Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: December 1977)

"Financing Economic Growth: the Problem of Capital Formulation" - 1976
1st Annual Economic Policy Conference (Published: June 1977)