Seminar Series

The Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is sponsoring a Seminar Series on a wide variety of economic topics. Economists from across the country and around the world are invited to participate.

Unless otherwise noted, seminars will be held in the Research Conference Room, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, One Federal Reserve Bank Plaza, at the corner of Broadway and Locust Street, St. Louis, MO. Seminars held at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis are open to the public. If you wish to attend, you must call Sandra Butler at (314) 444-8591 at least 24 hours in advance. All attendees are required to go though a security screening and will be asked to show a picture ID.

Questions or suggestions should be directed to Alejandro Badel (Alejandro.Badel@stls.frb.org), Carlos Garriga (Carlos.Garriga@stls.frb.org), or Rajdeep Sengupta (Rajdeep.Sengupta@stls.frb.org).

Spring 2010 Seminar Series
Wednesday, January 20 — 12:00 PM	Sami Alpanda, Amherst College "Identifying the Role of Risk Shocks in the Business Cycle Using Stock Price Data"
Tuesday, January 26 — 11:45 AM	Howard Wall, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Personal Bankruptcies and the Recession"
Thursday, January 28 — 12:00 PM	Gerard Llobet, CEMFI "Entrepreneurial Innovation, Patent Protection, and Industry Dynamics"
Wednesday, February 3 — 12:00 PM	Martin Gervais, University of Texas-Austin "Optimal Fiscal Policy Over the Business Cycle"
Thursday, February 4 — 11:45 AM	Daniel Thornton, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "The Unusual Behavior of the Federal Funds and 10-Year Treasury Rates: A Conundrum or Goodhart's Law?"
Thursday, February 11 — 12:00 PM	Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Liquidity and Welfare in a Heterogeneous-Agent Economy"
Friday, February 12 — 12:00 PM	Ping Wang, Washington University "Trade, Urbanization and Capital Accumulation in a Labor Surplus Economy" (with Eric Bond and Ray Riezman)
** Friday, February 26 — 11:45 AM	Roberto Piazza, IMF "Financial Innovation and Risk, the Role of Information" Host: Michele Boldrin
**Friday, March 5 — 11:45 AM	Erik Hurst, Chicago Booth "TBA" Host: Alejandro Badel
**Friday, March 12 — 11:45 AM	Edward Coulson, Penn State University "TBA" Host: Alejandro Badel
**Friday, March 19 — 11:45 AM	Elias Dinopoulos, University of Florida "TBA" Host: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
**Friday, April 2 — 11:45 AM	Morris Davis, Wisconsin School of Business "TBA" Host: Alejandro Badel
**Friday, April 23 — 11:45 AM	Anton Korinek, University of Maryland "TBA" Host: Rajdeep Sengupta
**Friday, April 30 — 11:45 AM	Kamal Saggi, Southern Methodist University "TBA" Host: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
**Friday, May 7 — 11:45 AM	Patrick Bayer, Duke University "TBA" Host: Alejandro Badel
**Friday, May 14 — 11:45 AM	Viktoria Ivashina, Harvard Business School "TBA" Hosts: Silvio Contessi and Rajdeep Sengupta
**Friday, May 21 — 11:45 AM	Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School "TBA" Hosts: Silvio Contessi and Riccardo DiCecio

* Joint with the Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis. These seminars will take place at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

** Applied Micro Series, held at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

*** Joint with the Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis. These seminars will take place at Washington University in St. Louis. Please visit http://economics.wustl.edu/index_seminars.php for further information.

Spring 2010 Schedule (PDF)

Fall 2009 Schedule (PDF)

Select Spring 2009 and Fall 2009 Schedules (Spring 2009 includes links to select papers)

Past Seminars (PDF)

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