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2013 Seminar Series
Wed, Jun 05 12:00pm
Speaker: YiLi Chien, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Asset Pricing with Heterogeneous Agents"
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"
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"
Thu, May 23 12:00pm
Speaker: Ludo Visschers, U.Carlos III, Madrid
Host: Fernando Martin
"Unemployment and Endogeneous Reallocation over the Business Cycle"
Tue, May 21 12:00pm
Speaker: Dino Palazzo, Boston University
Host: Juan Sanchez
"Investment and the Cross-Section of Equity Returns"
Fri, May 17 12:00pm
Speaker: Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"An Analytical Framework for the Evaluation of Unconventioanl Monetary Policies"
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"
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 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 06 12:00pm
Speaker: Michael Owyang, Federal Reserve Bank of St.Louis
"Clustered Housing Cycles"
Fri, May 03 12:00pm
Speaker: Michael McCracken, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Tests of Equal Forecast Accuracy for Overlapping Models"
Thu, May 02 12:00pm
Speaker: Theodore Papageorgiou, Penn State
Host: Alex Monge-Naranjo and B. Ravikumar
"Worker Sorting and Agglomeration Economies"
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"
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"
Fri, Apr 19 12:00pm
Speaker: Matthias Doepke, Northwestern University
Host: Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
"On the Optimality of a Dominant Unit of Account"
Tue, Apr 16 12:00pm
Speaker: Daphne Chen, Florida State University
Host: Carlos Garriga
"The Impact of Personal Bankruptcy on Labor Supply Decisions"
Mon, Apr 08 12:00pm
Speaker: William Gavin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Global Dynamics at the Zero Lower Bound"
Fri, Apr 05 12:00pm
Speaker: Gregorio Caetano, University of Rochester
Host: Maria Canon
"Do 'Broken Windows' Matter? Identifying Dynamic Spillovers in Criminal Behavior""
Thu, Apr 04 12:00pm
Speaker: Yan Bai, University of Rochester
Host: Juan Sanchez and Fernando Martin
"Linkages Across Sovereign Debt Markets"
Fri, Mar 29 12:00pm
Speaker: Daniele Coen-Pirani, University of Pittsburgh
Host: Alejandro Badel
"Human Capital Accumulation in a Federation"
Tue, Mar 26 12:00pm
Speaker: Athansios Orphanides, MIT
Host: Christopher Waller
"Euro Area Crisis"
Wed, Mar 20 4:00pm ***
Speaker: Erzo Luttmer, University of Minnesota
Host: Juan Sanchez and Rodolfo Manuelli
"Eventually, Noise and Imitation Implies Balanced Growth"
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"
Fri, Mar 15 12:00pm
Speaker: Mark Huggett, Georgetown University
Host: Alejandro Badel
TBA
Wed, Mar 06 4:00pm ****
Speaker: Jaroslav Borovicka, New York University
Host: Juan Sanchez and Alexander Monge-Naranjo
TBA
Tue, Feb 26 12:00pm
Speaker: David Levine, Washington University
Host: Carlos Garriga and Alex Monge-Naranjo
TBA
Thu, Jan 10 12:00pm
Speaker: Mai Seki, Bank of Canada
Host: Maria Canon and Alex Monge-Naranjo
TBA
2012 Seminar Series
Fri, Dec 21 12:00pm
Speaker: Silvio Contessi, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
TBA
Wed, Dec 19 12:00pm
Speaker: Christopher Neely, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"The Search for a Simple Model of the LSAP's Portfolio Balance Effects"
Wed, Dec 12 4:00pm
Speaker: Jaromir Nosal, Columbia University
Host: Juan Sanchez and Alex Monge-Naranjo
"Uncertainty as Commitment"
Fri, Dec 07 12:00pm *
Speaker: Rafael Lopes De Melo, University of Chicago
Host: Maria Canon
"Sorting in the Labor Market, Theory and Measurement"
Tue, Dec 04 12:00pm
Speaker: Ana Maria Santacreu, INSEAD, France
Host: Alexander Monge-Naranjo
TBA
Tue, Dec 04 3:00pm
Speaker: Pierre Yared, Columbia University
Host: Alex Monge-Naranjo
"Fiscal Rules and Discretion Under Persistent Shocks, joint with Marina Halac"
Thu, Nov 29 12:00pm
Speaker: Maria Canon, FRB St. Louis
TBA
Wed, Nov 28 12:00pm
Speaker: Yang Tang, Washington University
Host: Juan Sanchez
"Migration, Structural Change and Urban Housing Prices"
Tue, Nov 20 12:00pm
Speaker: Fernando Martin, FRB St. Louis
"Debt, Inflation and Central Bank Independence"
Mon, Nov 19 12:00pm
Speaker: Julian Neira, University of California-Santa Barbara
Host: Juan Sanchez
"Optimal Taxation in a Life-Cycle Economy with Endogenous Human Capital Formation"
Fri, Nov 16 12:00pm *
Speaker: Andrea Moro, Vanderbilt University
Host: Alejandro Badel
"The Empirical Content of Models with Multiple Equilibria in Economies with Social Interactions"
Wed, Nov 14 4:00pm **
Speaker: David Lagakos, ASU
Host: Juan Sanchez and Yongseok Shin
"Explaining Cross-Country Productivity Differences in Retail Trade"
Tue, Nov 06 12:00pm
Speaker: Arunima Sinha, Santa Clara University
Host: Chris Waller and B. Ravikumar
"Government Debt, Learning and the Term Structure"
Mon, Nov 05 12:00pm
Speaker: Lones Smith, University of Wisconsin
Host: David Andolfatto
"The Economics of Counterfeiting"
Mon, Oct 29 12:00pm
Speaker: Christopher Otrok, University of Missouri
Host: Juan Sanchez and B. Ravikumar
"Optimal Policy for Macro-Financial Stability"
Tue, Oct 23 12:00pm
Speaker: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Illegal Immigration and Fiscal Competition"
Mon, Oct 22 12:00pm
Speaker: Emin Dinlersoz, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau
Host: Ruben Hernandez-Murillo
"The Rise and Fall of Unions in the U.S."
Thu, Oct 18 12:00pm
Speaker: Stefania Garetto, Boston University
Host: B. Ravikumar and Juan Sanchez
"Risk, Returns and Multinational Production"
Wed, Oct 17 4:00pm ****
Speaker: Ali Shourideh, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Business School
Host: Alexander Monge-Naranjo
"Optimal Taxation of Capital Income: A Mirrleesian Approach to Capital Accumulation"
Tue, Oct 16 12:00pm
Speaker: Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Christopher Waller
""Shopping Externalities and Self-Fulfilling Unemployment Fluctuations" joint with Greg Kaplan (Princeton)"
Thu, Oct 04 11:45 AM
Speaker: Ana Fostel, George Washington University
Host: B. Ravikumar
"Tranching, CDS and Asset Prices: How Financial Innovation can Cause Bubbles and Crashes, joint with John Geanakoplos."
Tue, Oct 02 12:00pm
Speaker: Oksana Leukhina, University of Washington
Host: Adrian Peralta-Alva and Juan Sanchez
"Business Cycles and Lending Standards, joint work with Nicolas Figueroa"
Fri, Sep 28 12:00pm *
Speaker: Marco Cosconati, Bank of Italy
Host: Maria Canon and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
"Optimal Parenting Styles"
Wed, Sep 26 4:00pm
Speaker: Sagiri Kitao, Hunter College, City University of New York
Host: Juan Sanchez and B. Ravikumar
"A Life-Cycle Model of Unemployment and Disability Insurance"
Mon, Sep 24 12:00pm
Speaker: David Andolfatto, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Is Fiat Money Necessary?"
Thu, Sep 20 12:00pm
Speaker: Latchezar Popov, University of Virginia
Host: Juan Sanchez
TBA
Wed, Sep 19 4:00pm **
Speaker: Gadi Barlevy, FRB Chicago
Host: Juan Sanchez and Steve Williamson
"Mortgage Choices and Housing Speculation"
Wed, Aug 29 12:00pm
Speaker: Mathieu Taschereau-Dumouchel, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Alex Monge-Naranjo
"The Union Threat"
Mon, Aug 27 12:00pm
Speaker: William Gavin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Does QE Raise Output?"
Thu, Aug 23 12:00pm
Speaker: Yuya Takahashi, University of Mannheim
Host: Maria Canon
"Estimating a Dynamic Game of Spatial Competition: The Case of the UK Supermarket Industry"
Wed, Aug 22 12:00pm
Speaker: Jing-zhi (Jay) Huang, Penn State University
Host: Daniel Thornton
"Determinants of Bond Risk Premia"
Tue, Aug 21 12:00pm
Speaker: Leo Krippner, Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Host: Chris Waller and Juan Sanchez
"Measuring the Stance of Monetary Policy in Zero Lower Bound Environments"
Wed, Aug 15 12:00pm
Speaker: Don Schlagenhauf, FSU
Host: Juan Sanchez and Carlos Garriga
"Did Housing Policies Cause the Post-War Housing Boom? A General Equilibrium Analysis"
Mon, Aug 06 12:00pm
Speaker: Luciana Luvenal, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
TBA
Wed, Aug 01 12:00pm
Speaker: Ichiro Muto, Bank of Japan
Host: Christopher Waller and Juan Sanchez
TBA
Mon, Jul 30 12:00pm
Speaker: Felix Kubler, University of Zurich
Host: Adrian Peralta-Alva and Juan Sanchez
"Dynamic Competitive Economies with Complete Markets and Collateral Constraints"
Fri, Jul 27 12:00pm
Speaker: Galina Hale, FRB San Francisco
Host: Luciana Juvenal
TBA
Tue, Jul 24 12:00pm
Speaker: Erwan Quintin, University of Wisconsin School of Business
Host: Adrian Peralta-Alva
"The Rise of Securitization: A Recursive Security Design Approach"
Mon, Jul 23 12:00pm
Speaker: Lubomir Litov, University of Arizona
Host: Juan Sanchez
"Non-Executive Employees' Incentives and Bank Risk-Talking"
Wed, Jul 18 12:00pm
Speaker: Simeon Alder, University of Notre Dame
Host: Christopher Waller
"The Decline of the U.S. Rust Belt: A Macroeconomic Analysis"
Mon, Jul 16 12:00pm
Speaker: Jing Zhang, University of Michigan
Host: Adrian Peralta-Alva and Juan Sanchez
TBA
Fri, Jun 15 12:00pm *
Speaker: Alessandra Voena, Kennedy S. of Government, University of Chicago
Host: Alejandro Badel and Raul Santaeulalia
"Prenuptial Agreements and Household Welfare: Evidence from Italy"
Wed, Jun 13 12:00pm
Speaker: B. Ravikumar, FRB St. Louis
"Unemployment Insurance Fraud and Optimal Monitoring"
Mon, Jun 04 12:00pm
Speaker: Ruben Hernandez, FRB St. Louis
"Did Affordable Housing Legislation Contribute to the Subprime Securities Boom?"
Fri, Jun 01 12:00pm *
Speaker: Maria Marta Ferreyra, CMU
Host: Maria Canon
"Charter School Entry and School Choice: The Case of Washington, D.C., joint with Grigory Kosenok (New Economic School, Moscow)"
Fri, May 11 12:00pm *
Speaker: Maurizio Mazzocco, UCLA
Host: Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
"Understanding Corruption: Theory and Evidence from the Audits of Local Governments"
Mon, May 07 12:00pm
Speaker: David Wheelock, FRB St. Louis
"Federal Reserve Lending to Troubled Banks During the Financial Crisis, 2007-10"
Fri, May 04 12:00pm *
Speaker: Betsy Caucutt, Western Ontario
Host: Alejandro Badel
"Early and Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, and the Family"
Fri, Apr 27 12:00pm
Speaker: Daniel Sanches, FRB Philadelphia
Host: Chris Waller
"Private Provision of Liquidity and the Role of Banking Regulation"
Wed, Apr 25 4:00pm *
Speaker: Hugo Hopenhayn, UCLA
Host: Juan Sanchez, Yongseok Shin, Michele Boldrin
"On the Measure of Distortions"
Fri, Apr 20 12:00pm *
Speaker: Hanming Fang, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Alejandro Badel
"Why Do Life Insurance Policyholders Lapse? The Roles of Income, Health and Bequest Motive Shocks"
Wed, Apr 18 4:00pm **
Speaker: Nir Jaimovich, Duke University
"The Trend is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries"
Mon, Apr 16 12:00pm
Speaker: Pinar Yesin, Swiss National Bank
Host: Juan Sanchez and Adrian Peralta-Alva
"Foreign Currency Loans in Europe: Incentives to Borrow in a Foreign Currency and Currency Mismatch in the Banking Sector"
Wed, Apr 11 12:00pm
Speaker: Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Two-Way Capital Flows and Global Imbalanced: A Neoclassical Approach"
Mon, Apr 02 12:00pm
Speaker: Juan Sanchez, FRB St. Louis
"Too Big to Cheat"
Wed, Mar 28 4:00pm
Speaker: Manuel Santos, University of Miami
Host: Juan Sanchez
"An Economic Analysis of Medical Expenditures"
Mon, Mar 26 12:00pm
Speaker: Roozbeh Hosseini, Arizona State University
"Is There ‘Too Much’ Inequality in Health Spending Across Income Groups?"
Fri, Mar 23 12:00pm *
Speaker: Fatih Guvenen, FRB Minneapolis/Chicago
Host: Raul Santaeulalia
"The Nature of Countercyclical Income Risk"
Wed, Mar 21 4:00pm ****
Speaker: Mario Crucini, Vanderbilt University
Host: Rajdeep Sengupta
"Do Sticky Prices Increase Real Exchange Rate Volatility at the Sector Level?"
Wed, Mar 07 4:00pm **
Speaker: Mirko Wiederholt, Northwestern University
Host: Juan Sanchez and Yongseok Shin
"Exogenous Information, Endogenous Information and Optimal Monetary Policy"
Fri, Mar 02 12:00pm
Speaker: Arpad Abraham, EIU
Host: Juan Sanchez
"Efficient Risk Sharing with Limited Commitment and Hidden Saving"
Wed, Feb 29 4:00pm **
Speaker: Yongsung Chang, University of Rochester
Host: Juan Sanchez and Yongseok Shin
"Asymmetric Phase Shifts in the U.S. Industrial Production Cycles (w/ S. Hwang)"
Fri, Feb 24 12:00pm
Speaker: Lutz Killian, University of Michigan
Host: Luciana Juvenal
"The Role of Inventories and Speculative Trading in the Global Market for Crude Oil"
Mon, Feb 06 12:00pm
Speaker: Michael McCracken, FRB St. Louis
TBA
Wed, Feb 01 12:00pm
Speaker: Michael Owyang, FRB St. Louis
"Financial Stress and the Factor-Augmented Smooth Transition Autoregression"
Mon, Jan 23 12:00pm
Speaker: Sang-Yoon Lee, University of Mannheim
Host: Yongseok Shin
"Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Inequality"
2011 Seminar Series
Fri, Dec 16 12:00pm *
Speaker: Marco Cozzi, Queens University
Host: Alejandro Badel
"Risk Aversion Heterogeneity, Labor Income Risk and Wealth Inequality"
Wed, Dec 14 12:00pm
Speaker: Alejandro Badel, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Interpreting Life Cycle Inequality Patterns as an Efficient Allocation: Mission Impossible?"
Fri, Dec 09 12:00pm *
Speaker: Adriana Lleras-Muney, University of California-Los Angeles
Host: Alejandro Badel and Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
"Child Gender and Parental Investments in India: Are Boys and Girls Treated Differently?"
Wed, Dec 07 4:00pm **
Speaker: Nick Bloom, Stanford University
Host: Carlos Garriga
"Really Uncertain Business Cycles"
Tue, Dec 06 12:00pm
Speaker: Lee Ohanian, UCLA
Host: Juan Sanchez
""Foreclosure Delay and U.S. Unemployment" joint with Kyle Herkenhoff"
Wed, Nov 30 12:00pm
Speaker: Silvio Contessi, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Access to Credit and Export through the Trade Collapse: A Portrait of Firms in 33 Countries"
Mon, Nov 28 12:00pm
Speaker: Lubomir Litov, University of Arizona
Host: Christopher Neely
TBA
Tue, Nov 22 12:00pm
Speaker: Rajdeep Sengupta, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Subprime Loan Quality"
Fri, Nov 18 12:00pm
Speaker: Mallory Leung, University of Minnesota
Host: Alejandro Badel & Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
"A Structural model of Sex Selective Abortion: The Effect of One-child Policy on Sex Ratio Imbalance in China"
Thu, Nov 17 12:00pm
Speaker: Adrian Peralta-Alva, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
TBA
Wed, Nov 16 4:00pm **
Speaker: Frank Schorfheide, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Fri, Nov 11 12:00pm ***
Speaker: Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
TBA
Wed, Nov 09 4:00pm ****
Speaker: Jim Schmitz, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Mon, Nov 07 12:00pm
Speaker: Tom Garrett, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
TBA
Thu, Nov 03 12:00pm
Speaker: Luciana Juvenal, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
TBA
Mon, Oct 31 12:00pm
Speaker: Nicolas Trachter, Einaudi Institute Rome
Host: David Andolfatto
TBA
Tue, Oct 25 12:00pm
Speaker: Michael Owyang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Forecast Asymmetry and the Business Cycle"
Mon, Oct 24 12:00pm
Speaker: Ozge Savascin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Host: Michael Owyang
"The Dynamics of Commodity Prices: A Clustering Approach"
Wed, Oct 19 12:00pm
Speaker: Vincenzo Quadrini, University of Southern California
Host: Adrian Peralta-Alva
"Financial Globalization and the Raising of Public Debt"
Mon, Oct 17 12:00pm
Speaker: Juan Sanchez, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
TBA
Fri, Oct 14 12:00pm *
Speaker: Carl Sanders, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Alejandro Badel
TBA
Wed, Oct 12 12:00pm
Speaker: Richard Anderson, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
TBA
Fri, Oct 07 12:00pm *
Speaker: Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: Alejandro Badel
"Intergenerational Redistribution in the Great Recession"
Tue, Oct 04 12:00pm
Speaker: David Andolfatto, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
TBA
Mon, Oct 03 12:00pm
Speaker: Bob Tetlow, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Host: Michael McCracken
"Financial Stress and Economic Dynamics: The Transmission of Crisis"
Fri, Sep 30 12:00pm *****
Speaker: John Conley, Vanderbilt University
Host: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay and Sengupta Rajdeep
TBA
Thu, Sep 29 12:00pm
Speaker: David Levine, Washington University
Host: Carlos Garriga
"Anti-Malthus: Evolution, Population, and the Maximization of Free Resources"
Mon, Sep 26 12:00pm
Speaker: Christopher Neely, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Lessons from the Evolution of Foreign Exchange Trading Strategies"
Fri, Sep 23 12:00pm *
Speaker: Greg Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Juan Sanchez and Alejandro Badel
TBA
Wed, Sep 21 4:00pm **
Speaker: David Backus, New York University
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Tue, Sep 13 12:00pm
Speaker: Michael McCracken, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Testing the Economic Value of Predictability"
Mon, Sep 12 12:00pm
Speaker: Sephorah Mangin, University of Melbourne, Australia
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Thu, Sep 08 12:00pm *
Speaker: Giorgio Topa, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Host: Maria Canon
"Measuring Mismatch in the U.S. Labor Market"
Thu, Aug 11 12:00pm
Speaker: Emily Lynch, Duke University
Host: Michael Owyang
"TBD"
Tue, Aug 09 12:00pm
Speaker: Margarita Rubio, Bank of Spain
Host: Michael Owyang
"House Purchase Versus Rental in Spain"
Mon, Jul 25 12:00pm
Speaker: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Immigration Policy and Counterterrorism"
Thu, Jul 07 12:00pm
Speaker: Lubo Litov, University of Arizona
Host: Christopher Neely
"Do Private Banks Take More Risk? A Cross-Country Perspective"
Mon, Jun 20 12:00pm
Speaker: Natalia Kolesnikova, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Are Children Normal?"
Thu, Jun 16 12:00pm
Speaker: Robert Johnson, Dartmouth College
Host: Luciana Juvenal
TBA
Tue, Jun 14 12:00pm
Speaker: William Gavin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Monetary Policy, the Tax Code, and Energy Prices: A Model of Stagflation"
Thu, May 26 12:00pm
Speaker: Kaiji Chen, Emory University
Host: Yi Wen
"Asset Market Liquidity and Crisis"
Tue, May 24 12:00pm
Speaker: Carlos Garriga, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Intergenerational Policy and the Measurement of the Tax Incidence of Unfunded Liabilities"
Fri, May 20 12:00pm *****
Speaker: Charles Kahn, University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign
Host: Rajdeep Sengupta
"Private Payment Systems, Collateral, and Interest Rates; and Collateral Policy in a World of Round-the-Clock Payment"
Wed, May 18 12:00pm
Speaker: Ruben Hernandez, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Race and Subprime Loan Pricing"
Fri, May 13 12:00pm *****
Speaker: Nancy Chau, Cornell University
Host: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
"Contractual Dualism, Market Power and Informality"
Thu, May 12 12:00pm
Speaker: Costas Arkolakis, Yale University
Host: Luciana Juvenal
TBA
Mon, May 09 12:00pm *
Speaker: Giovanni Galipolli, University of British Columbia
Host: Raul Santaeulalia
"Household Responses to Individual Shocks: Disability and Labor Supply"
Fri, May 06 2:00pm
Speaker: Pierre-Daniel Sarte, FRB Richmond
Host: David Andolfatto
TBA
Tue, May 03 12:00pm
Speaker: Todd Schoellman, Arizona State University
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Mon, May 02 12:00pm
Speaker: Seung-Gyu Sim, University of Tokyo
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Thu, Apr 28 12:00pm
Speaker: Fernando Martin, Simon Fraser University
Host: David Andolfatto
TBA
Wed, Apr 27 4:00pm ****
Speaker: Jose-Victor Rios-Rull, University of Minnesota
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Fri, Apr 22 12:00pm *****
Speaker: Viral Acharya, New York University
Host: Rajdeep Sengupta
"Counterparty risk externality: Centralized versus over-the-counter markets*"
Wed, Apr 20 4:00pm **
Speaker: Diego Restuccia, University of Toronto
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Fri, Apr 15 12:00pm
Speaker: David Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Did Doubling Reserve Requirements Cause the Recession of 1937-38?"
Thu, Apr 14 12:00pm
Speaker: Ludo Visschers, Universidad Carlos III
Host: Carlos Garriga
"Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle with Carlos Carrillo-Tudela"
Mon, Apr 11 12:00pm
Speaker: Daniel Thornton, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"A Perspective on the Stance of Monetary Policy"
Fri, Apr 08 12:00pm
Speaker: Toshihiko Mukoyama, University of Virginia
Host: Carlos Garriga
"Understanding the Welfare Effects of Unemployment Insurance Policy in General Equilibrium"
Wed, Apr 06 4:00pm ****
Speaker: Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Tue, Apr 05 12:00pm
Speaker: Jialang Wang, WashU- Olin Business School
Host: Silvio Contessi
"Liquidity Constraints and Consumer Bankruptcy: Evidence from Tax Rebates"
Mon, Apr 04 12:00pm
Speaker: Chao Gu, University of Missouri Columbia
Host: Carlos Garriga
"Endogenous Credit Cycles"
Fri, Apr 01 12:00pm *
Speaker: Stefania Albanesi, Columbia University
Host: Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
"Maternal Health and Fertility: An International Perspective"
Thu, Mar 31 12:00pm
Speaker: Kanda Naknoi, Purdue University
Host: Silvio Contessi
"The Benefit of Exchange Rate Flexibility, Trade Openness and the Extensive Margin"
Fri, Mar 25 12:00pm *
Speaker: Claudia Olivetti, Boston University
Host: Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis
"In the Name of the Father: Marriage and Intergenerational Mobility in the United States, 1850-1930."
Wed, Mar 23 12:00pm ****
Speaker: Benjamin Lester, University of Western Ontario
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Thu, Mar 10 12:00pm
Speaker: Guillermo Ordonez, Yale University
Host: Carlos Garriga
"Optimal Regulation in the Presence of Reputation Concerns"
Wed, Mar 09 4:00pm
Speaker: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde , University of Pennsylvania
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Tue, Mar 08 12:00pm
Speaker: Ivan Petrella, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Host: Luciana Juvenal
TBA
Mon, Feb 28 12:00pm
Speaker: Juan Rubio-Ramirez, Duke University
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Wed, Feb 23 12:00pm
Speaker: Kadee Russ, University of California-Davis
Host: Silvio Contessi
TBA
Fri, Feb 18 12:00pm
Speaker: Guillaume Vandenbroucke, University of Iowa
Host: Carlos Garriga
TBA
Thu, Feb 17 12:00pm
Speaker: Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Making Sense of China's Excessive Foreign Reserves"
Fri, Jan 21 1:00pm
Speaker: Ronni Pavan, University of Rochester
Host: Maria Canon
TBA
Thu, Jan 20 12:00pm
Speaker: Emilio Espino, UTDT
Host: Juan Sanchez
"A General Equilibrium Explanation for Financial Market Anomalies: Belief Heterogeneity Under Limited Enforceability"
Fri, Jan 14 12:00pm
Speaker: Carlos Garriga, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Understanding Housing Booms” The Case of Spain"
*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.
**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 Washington University.
****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.
2010 Seminars
| Tue, Dec 17 — 12:00 PM | Silvio Contessi, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Capital Injections and Lending Contractions: Evidence from the TARP/CPP" |
| Thu, Dec 9 — 12:00 PM | Ruben Hernandez, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Spatial Diffusion of Subprime Mortgages" |
| ***Wed, Dec 8 — 4:00 PM | Chris Sleet, Carnegie Mellon University "Recursive Methods for Dynamic Incentive and Macroeconomic Policy Problems" (with M. Messner, N. Pavoni and S. Yeltekin) |
| *Fri, Dec 3 — 4:00 PM | Mark Wright, University of California-Los Angeles "The Cost of Financial Crisis: Resource Misallocation, Productivity and Welfare in the 2001 Argentine Crisis" |
| **Fri, Dec 3 — 12:00 PM | Glenn Loury, Brown University "Valuing Identity" |
| Thu, Dec 2 — 12:00 PM | Adrian Peralta-Alva, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Shocks, Time-to-train, and Optimal Government Spending" |
| *Mon, Nov 29 — 12:00 PM | Alejandro Badel, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
| Mon, Nov 22 — 12:00 PM | B. Ravikumar, University of Iowa "International Trade in Capital Goods and Economic Development" (with Michael Sposi and Piyusha Mutreja) |
| **Fri, Nov 19 — 12:00 PM | Alessandra Voena, Stanford University "Yours, Mine and Ours: Do Divorce Laws Affect the Intertemporal Behavior of Married Couples?" Host: Alejandro Badel |
| Thu, Nov 18 — 12:00 PM | Luciana Juvenal, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Pricing-to-Market and Business Cycle Synchronization" |
| *** Wed, Nov 17 — 4:00 PM | Ned Prescott, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond "Regulating Banker Compensation for Bank Supervisory Purposes" Host: Carlos Garriga |
| Tue, Nov 16 — 12:00 PM | Giulio Zanella, University of Bologna "Revisiting Wage, Earnings, and Hours Profiles" Host: Carlos Garriga |
| *Wed, Nov 10 — 4:00 PM | Mark Bils, University of Rochester "Has Consumption Inequality Mirrored Income Inequality?" (with M. Aguiar) |
| ***Wed, Nov 3 — 4:00 PM | Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago "Credit Crunches and Credit Allocation in a Model of Entrepreneurship" (with Marco Cagetti and Mariacristina De Nardi) |
| Mon, Nov 1 — 12:00 PM | Richard Anderson, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Evaluating Systematic Liquidity Estimators" |
| Thu, Oct 28 — 2:00 PM | Linda Goldberg, Federal Reserve Bank of New York "Banking Globalization and Monetary Transmission" |
| ***Wed, Oct 27 — 4:00 PM | Hal Cole, University of Pennsylvania "Is the Volatility of Market Price of Risk Due to Intermittent Portfolio Re-Balancing?" (with Y. Chien and H. Lustig) |
| Mon, Oct 25 — 12:00 PM | Steven Lugauer, University of Notre Dame "Demographic Patterns and Saving in China" Host: Chris Waller |
| **Fri, Oct 15 — 12:00 PM | Pablo D'Erasmo, University of Maryland "A Quantitative Model of Banking Industry Dynamics" Host: Alejandro Badel |
| ***Wed, Oct 13 — 4:00 PM | Hubert Kempf, Banque de France "Deposit Insurance Without Commitment" |
| Wed, Oct 13 — 12:00 PM | Lubomir Litov, Wharton Financial Institutions "Do Firm Boundaries Affect Financing Policy? Evidence from Non-financial Conglomerates with Financial Subsidiaries" |
| **Fri, Oct 8 — 12:00 PM | Alvin Murphy, Washington University "A Dynamic Model of Demand for Houses and Neighborhoods" Host: Alejandro Badel |
| Tue, Oct 5 — 12:00 PM | Michael McCracken, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "The Reality Checks and Nested Forecast Model Comparisons" |
| **Fri, Oct 1 — 12:00 PM | Giovanni Favara, IMF "House Price Dynamics with Dispersed Information" (with Zheng Song) Hosts: Luciana Juvenal and Riccardo DiCecio |
| ***Wed, Sep 29 — 4:00 PM | Kyoung-Jin Choi, Washington University "Mirrlees Meets Modigliani-Miller: Optimal Individual/Corporate Taxes and Capital Structure" |
| Tue, Sep 28 — 12:00 PM | Mike Owyang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "An Endogeneous Clustered Factor Approach to International Business Cycles" (with Ozge Saviscin and Neville Francis) |
| **Fri, Sep 24 — 12:00 PM | Raoul Minetti, Michigan State University "Foreign Lenders in Emerging Economies" (with Matteo Iacoviello) Host: Rajdeep Sengupta |
| Thu, Sep 23 — 12:00 PM | William Gavin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "The Zero Lower Bound: Avoidance and Escape" |
| ***Wed, Sep 22 — 4:00 PM | Berthold Herrendorf, Arizona State University "Transportation and Development: Insights from the U.S., 1840-1860" (with J. Schmitz and A. Teixeira) |
| Wed, Sep 8 — 12:00 PM | David Levine, Washington University "Chains of Production and Real Shocks" Host: Carlos Garriga |
| Fri, Sep 3 — 12:00 PM | Michael Sposi, University of Iowa "Trade Barriers and the Price of Nontradables Relative to Tradables" Host: Carlos Garriga |
| Thu, Sep 2 — 12:00 PM | Marcus Berliant, Washington University "The Dynamics of Knowledge Diversity and Economic Growth" |
| Mon, Aug 30 — 12:00 PM | Travis Berge, University of California "Nonlinear Predictions of Exchange Rates" |
| Mon, Aug 2 — 12:00 PM | Liang Wang, University of Pennsylvania "Inflation and Welfare with Price Dispersion" |
| Tue, Jul 6 — 12:00 PM | Thomas Garrett, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "The Revenue Performance of Casinos after a Smoking Ban: The Case of Illinois" |
| Fri, Jun 18 — 12:00 PM | Rajdeep Sengupta, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Lending to Uncreditworthy Borrowers" |
| Thu, Jun 17 — 12:00 PM | Zhigang Feng, University of Zurich "Macroeconomic Consequence of Alternative Reform to the Health Insurance System in the U.S." |
| Wed, Jun 16 — 12:00 PM | Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin "Global Interest Rates, Monetary Policy and Currency Returns" |
| Thu, Jun 10 — 12:00 PM | Guillaume Vandenbroucke, University of Iowa "A Century of Human Capital and Hours" |
| Wed, Jun 9 — 12:00 PM | David Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets" |
| Tue, Jun 8 — 12:00 PM | Stephan Kurka, University of Bonn "Media of Exchange with Differing Liquidity" |
| **Mon, May 24 — 12:00 PM | Viktoria Ivashina, Harvard Business School "Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence" Hosts: Silvio Contessi and Rajdeep Sengupta |
| Tue, May 18 — 12:00 PM | Francois Gourio, Boston University "Disaster Risk and Business Cycles" |
| Tue, May 11 — 12:00 PM | Thomas Lubik, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond "Identifying the Labor Market Search and Matching Model" Host: Silvio Contessi |
| Mon, May 10 — 12:00 PM | Christopher Neely, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Out-of-Sample Equity Premium Prediction: Economic Fundamentals vs. Moving-Average Rules" |
| Fri, May 7 — 12:00 PM | Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago "A Model of a Systemic Bank Run" |
| Thu, May 6 — 12:00 PM | Fernando Martin, Simon Fraser University "Government Policy and Aggregate Fluctuations" Host: David Andolfatto |
| ***Wed, May 5 — 4:00 PM | Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania "Spot Wages Over the Business Cycle?" |
| **Fri, Apr 30 — 12:00 PM | Kamal Saggi, Southern Methodist University "Equilibrium Parallel Import Policies and International Market Structure" Host: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay |
| Wed, Apr 28 — 12:00 PM | Howard Wall, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Discordant City Business Cycles" |
| Tue, Apr 27 — 12:00 PM | Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Saving and Growth under Borrowing Constraints: Explaining the 'High Saving Rate' Puzzle" |
| Mon, Apr 26 — 12:00 PM | Rasmus Fatum, University of Alberta "Does Foreign Exchange Reserve Decumulation Lead to Currency Appreciation?" |
| **Fri, Apr 23 — 11:45 AM | Anton Korinek, University of Maryland "Systemic Risk-Taking: Amplification Effects, Externalities, and Regulatory Responses" Host: Rajdeep Sengupta |
| Tue, Apr 20 — 12:00 PM | Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Biofuel Subsidies: An Open-Economy Analysis" |
| *Fri, Apr 16 — 12:00 PM | Juan Pablo Nicolini, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis "Policy at the Zero Bound" |
| ***Wed, Apr 14 — 4:00 PM | Robert Lucas, University of Chicago "Ideas and Growth" |
| Mon, Apr 12 — 12:00 PM | Man-Yee Leung, University of Minnesota "Sex Ratio Imbalance in China" |
| **Thu, Apr 8 — 11:45 AM | Roberto Piazza, IMF "Financial Innovation and Risk, the Role of Information" Host: Michele Boldrin |
| *** Wed, Apr 7 — 4:00 PM | Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota "An Alternative Theory of the Plant Size Distribution with an Application to Trade" |
| Mon, Apr 5 — 12:00 PM | Stephen Williamson, Washington University "Liquidity, Financial Intermediation, and Monetary Policy in a New Monetarist Model" |
| **Fri, Apr 2 — 11:45 AM | Morris Davis, University of Wisconsin "Macroeconomic Implications of Agglomeration" Host: Alejandro Badel |
| Tue, Mar 30 — 12:00 PM | Natalia Kolesnikova, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "The Role of Location in Evaluating Racial Wage Disparity" |
| Thu, Mar 25 — 12:00 PM | Leo Kaas, University of Konstanz "Search-theoretic Money and International Exchange Rates" |
| *Wed, Mar 24 — 4:00 PM | Huberto Ennis, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond "Over-the-Counter Loans, Adverse Selection, and Stigma in the Interbank Market" |
| Wed, Mar 24 — 12:00 PM | David Andolfatto, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "On the Social Cost of Transparency in Monetary Economies" |
| Tue, Mar 23 — 12:00 PM | Manuel Santos, University of Miami "Efficient Firm Dynamics in a Frictional Labor Market" |
| Mon, Mar 22 — 12:00 PM | Tim Kam, Australian National University "Search-theoretic Money and International Exchange Rates" |
| **Fri, Mar 19 — 11:45 AM | Elias Dinopoulos, University of Florida "A Simple Model of Quality Heterogeneity and International Trade" Host: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay |
| Thu, Mar 18 — 12:00 PM | Antonio Doblas-Madrid, Michigan State University "A Robust Model of Bubbles with Multidimensional Uncertainty" Host: Carlos Garriga |
| *** Wed, Mar 17 — 4:00 PM | Zheng Liu, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco "Do Credit Constraints Amplify Macroeconomic Fluctuations?" |
| Mon, Mar 15 — 12:00 PM | Jay Hong, University of Rochester |
| **Fri, Mar 12 — 11:45 AM | Edward Coulson, Penn State University "Measuring the External Benefits of Homeownership" Host: Alejandro Badel |
| Thu, Mar 11 — 12:00 PM | Cletus Coughlin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Is the International Border Effect Larger than the Domestic Border Effect? Evidence from U.S. Trade" |
| **Fri, Mar 5 — 11:45 AM | Erik Hurst, Chicago Booth "Endogenous Gentrification and House Price Dynamics" Host: Alejandro Badel |
| Thu, Mar 4 — 11:30 AM | Christian Zimmermann, University of Connecticut "Basel Accord and Financial Intermediation: The Impact of Policy" |
| *** Wed, Mar 3 — 4:00 PM | Emilio Espino, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella "A General Equilibrium Explanation for Financial Markets Anomalies: Belief Heterogeneity Under Limited Enforceability" |
| Wed, Mar 3 — 12:00 PM | Jean Imbs, HEC Lausane "Credit Supply and the Price of Housing" |
| Fri, Feb 12 — 12:00 PM | Ping Wang, Washington University "Trade, Urbanization and Capital Accumulation in a Labor Surplus Economy" (with Eric Bond and Ray Riezman) |
| Thu, Feb 11 — 12:00 PM | Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Liquidity and Welfare in a Heterogeneous-Agent Economy" |
| Thu, Feb 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?" |
| Wed, Feb 3 — 12:00 PM | Martin Gervais, University of Texas-Austin "Optimal Fiscal Policy Over the Business Cycle" |
| Thu, Jan 28 — 12:00 PM | Gerard Llobet, CEMFI "Entrepreneurial Innovation, Patent Protection, and Industry Dynamics" |
| Tue, Jan 26 — 11:45 AM | Howard Wall, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis "Personal Bankruptcies and the Recession" |
| Wed, Jan 20 — 12:00 PM | Sami Alpanda, Amherst College "Identifying the Role of Risk Shocks in the Business Cycle Using Stock Price Data" |
Select Spring 2009 Seminars
| Wednesday, February 25, 2009 — 4:00 PM | V. V. Chari, University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis "Sophisticated Monetary Policies" |
| Wednesday, March 4, 2009 — 4:00 PM | João Gomes, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania "Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns" |
| Wednesday, March 18, 2009 — 4:00 PM | Gianluca Violante, New York University "Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment" |
| Wednesday, March 25, 2009 — 2:00 PM | Adriano Rampini, Duke/Fuqua "Collateral, Financial Intermediation and the Distribution of Debt Capacity" |
| Friday, April 17, 2009 — 2:00 PM | Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin-Madison "Currency Misalignments and Optimal Monetary Policy: A Reexamination" Host: Luciana Juvenal |
| Wednesday, April 29, 2009 — 4:00 PM | Ellen McGrattan, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis "Transition to FDI Openness" |
Fall 2009 Seminars
| Thursday, September 10, 2009 — 2:00 PM | Geni Dechter, University of Rochester "After Motherhood: Effects of Maternity Leave and Effort Reallocation on Earnings" |
| Friday, September 18, 2009 — 2:00 PM | Alvin Murphy, Washington University "A Dynamic Model of Housing Supply" |
| Wednesday, September 23, 2009 — 2:00 PM | Andrea Tambalotti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York "Investment Shocks and the Relative Price of Investment" |
| Monday, September 28, 2009 — 12:00 PM | Kelly Bishop, Washington University "Simple, Consistent Estimation of the Marginal Willingness to Pay Function: Recovering Rosen's Second Stage Without Instrumental Variable" |
| Wednesday, October 7, 2009 — 4:00 PM | Alex Monge, Penn State "The Nature of Credit Constraints and Human Capital" |
| Thursday, October 8, 2009 — 2:00 PM | Francois Ortalo-Magne, University of Wisconsin "Spatial Asset Pricing: A First Step" |
| Wednesday, October 21, 2009 — 4:00 PM | Erzo Luttmer, University of Minnesota "On the Mechanics of Firm Growth" |
| Thursday, October 22, 2009 — 2:00 PM | Emily Blanchard, University of Virginia "Trade, Education, and the Shrinking Middle Class" |
| Friday, October 30, 2009 — 2:00 PM | Dmytro Hryshko, University of Alberta "RIP to HIP: The Data Reject Heterogeneous Labor Income Profiles" |
| Wednesday, November 4, 2009 — 4:00 PM | Mark Aguiar, University of Rochester "Growth in the Shadow of Expropriation" |
| Thursday, November 5, 2009 — 2:00 PM | Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University "Within and Across Product Specialization Revisited" |
| Tuesday, November 10, 2009 — 4:15 PM | Michele Tertilt, Stanford University "An Equilibrium Model of the Malawian HIV/AIDS Epidemic" |
| Wednesday, November 11, 2009 — 4:00 PM | Rui Castro, Université de Montréal "On the Individual Optimality of Economic Integration" |
| Thursday, November 12, 2009 — 2:00 PM | Price Fishback, University of Arizona "The Influence of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation on Housing Markets During the 1930's" |
| Wednesday, November 18, 2009 — 4:00 PM | Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University "Non-Stationary Search Equilibrium" |
| Thursday, November 19, 2009 — 12:00 PM | Burhan Kuruscu, University of Texas "Taxation of Human Capital and Cross-Country Trends in Wage Inequality" |
| Wednesday, December 2, 2009 — 4:00 PM | Hubert Kempf, Banque de France "National Politics and International Agreements" |
| Thursday, December 3, 2009 — 2:00 PM | Glenn Loury, Brown University "Stereotypes and Inequality: Phenotypic vs. Affective Discrimination" |
| Wednesday, December 9, 2009 — 4:00 PM | Aubhik Khan, Ohio State University "Collateral Constraints, Capital Specificity and the Distribution of Production: The Role of Real and Financial Frictions in Aggregate Fluctuations" |
| Friday, December 11, 2009 — 11:45 AM | Mark Huggett, Georgetown University "How Well Does the US Social Insurance System Provide Social Insurance?" |
