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 "Ted Balbach Conference Room" (formerly 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 or LaTanya Johnson at (314) 444-8587, 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) or Carlos Garriga (Carlos.Garriga@stls.frb.org).

2013 Seminar Series

Thu, Jan 10 12:00pm
Speaker: Mai Seki, Bank of Canada
Host: Maria Canon and Alex Monge-Naranjo
TBA

Tue, Feb 26 12:00pm
Speaker: David Levine, Washington University
Host: Carlos Garriga and Alex Monge-Naranjo
TBA

Wed, Mar 06 4:00pm *
Speaker: Jaroslav Borovicka, New York University
Host: Juan Sanchez and Alexander Monge-Naranjo
TBA

Fri, Mar 15 12:00pm
Speaker: Mark Huggett, Georgetown University
Host: Alejandro Badel
TBA

Mon, Mar 18 12:00pm
Speaker: Mickey Levy, Former Chief Economist at Bank of America
Host: Daniel Thornton
"Monetary and Non-Monetary Influences on Economic Performance" Factors Supporting an Improving Outlook"

Wed, Mar 20 4:00pm **
Speaker: Erzo Luttmer, University of Minnesota
Host: Juan Sanchez and Rodolfo Manuelli
"Eventually, Noise and Imitation Implies Balanced Growth"

Tue, Mar 26 12:00pm
Speaker: Athansios Orphanides, MIT
Host: Christopher Waller
"Euro Area Crisis"

Fri, Mar 29 12:00pm
Speaker: Daniele Coen-Pirani, University of Pittsburgh
Host: Alejandro Badel
"Human Capital Accumulation in a Federation"

Thu, Apr 04 12:00pm
Speaker: Yan Bai, University of Rochester
Host: Juan Sanchez and Fernando Martin
"Linkages Across Sovereign Debt Markets"

Fri, Apr 05 12:00pm
Speaker: Gregorio Caetano, University of Rochester
Host: Maria Canon
"Do 'Broken Windows' Matter? Identifying Dynamic Spillovers in Criminal Behavior""

Mon, Apr 08 12:00pm
Speaker: William Gavin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Global Dynamics at the Zero Lower Bound"

Tue, Apr 16 12:00pm
Speaker: Daphne Chen, Florida State University
Host: Carlos Garriga
"The Impact of Personal Bankruptcy on Labor Supply Decisions"

Fri, Apr 19 12:00pm
Speaker: Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
Host: Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
"On the Optimality of a Dominant Unit of Account"

Mon, Apr 22 12:00pm
Speaker: Ija Trapeznikova, Royal Holloway, University of London
Host: Alex Monge-Naranjo and B, Ravikumar
"Employment Adjustment and Labor Utilization"

Wed, Apr 24 4:00pm ***
Speaker: Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago
Host: Juan Sanchez and Rodolfo Manuelli
"Price Setting with Menu Cost for Multi-Product Firms"

Thu, May 02 12:00pm
Speaker: Theodore Papageorgiou, Penn State
Host: Alex Monge-Naranjo and B. Ravikumar
"Worker Sorting and Agglomeration Economies"

Fri, May 03 12:00pm
Speaker: Michael McCracken, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Tests of Equal Forecast Accuracy for Overlapping Models"

Mon, May 06 12:00pm
Speaker: Michael Owyang, Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis
"Clustered Housing Cycles"

Wed, May 08 4:00pm ****
Speaker: Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Juan Sanchez and Rodolfo Manuelli
"Analyzing the Effects of Insuring Health Risks: On the Trade-off between Short Run Insurance Benefits vs. Long Run Incentive Cost"

Mon, May 13 12:00pm
Speaker: Andrew Glover, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Fernando Martin
"Ramsey Taxation in a Rat-Race Economy"

Wed, May 15 12:00pm
Speaker: Taryn Dinkelman, Dartmouth College
Host: Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
"Can Spatial Mobility Insure Families Against Long-Term Impacts of Economic Shocks? Evidence From Drought and Disability in South Africa"

Fri, May 17 12:00pm
Speaker: Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"An Analytical Framework for the Evaluation of Unconventioanl Monetary Policies"

Tue, May 21 12:00pm
Speaker: Dino Palazzo, Boston University
Host: Juan Sanchez
"Investment and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns"

Thu, May 23 12:00pm
Speaker: Ludo Visschers, U.Carlos III, Madrid
Host: Fernando Martin
"Unemployment and Endogeneous Reallocation over the Business Cycle"

Fri, May 31 12:00pm
Speaker: Derek Neal, University of Chicago
Host: Alejandro Badel
"The Prison Boom and the Lack of Black Progress Since Smith and Welch"

Mon, Jun 03 12:00pm
Speaker: Alejandro Badel, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Taxing Earnings at the Top: A View from Human Capital Theory"

Wed, Jun 05 12:00pm
Speaker: YiLi Chien, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Agents"

Mon, Jun 10 12:00pm
Speaker: Carlos Garriga, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Mortgages and Monetary Policy"

Mon, Jul 01 12:00pm
Speaker: Daniel Mueller, University of Basel
Host: Christopher Waller
TBA

Wed, Jul 17 12:00pm
Speaker: Jinhui Bai, Georgetown University
Host: B. Ravikumar
TBA

Mon, Jul 22 12:00pm
Speaker: Adrian Peralta-Alva, IMF
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA

Mon, Aug 12 12:00pm
Speaker: Margarita Rubio, University of Nottingham
Host: Michael Owyang
TBA

Wed, Sep 04 12:00pm
Speaker: Yongseok Shin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
TBA

Tue, Sep 10 4:00pm
Speaker: Ana Maria Santacreu, INSEAD
Host: B. Ravikumar and Alex Monge-Naranjo
TBA

Fri, Nov 08 12:00pm
Speaker: Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University
Host: Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
TBA

Tue, Nov 12 12:00pm
Speaker: Carlo Rosa, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Host: Christopher Neely
TBA

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

**Labor Workshop Seminar, joint with the Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis. These seminars will take place at Washington University.

***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/events/workshops for further information.

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

Past Seminars

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