Program - St. Louis Advances in Research (STLAR) Conference

Conference organized by Nicolas Roys and Juan Sanchez. All events are at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Gateway Conference Center.

Event Program

Thursday, April 20, 2017

10:00 - 11:00 am

Why are Banks Exposed to Monetary Policy?

Sebastian Di Tella (Stanford University)
Co-authors: Pablo Kurlat

11:00 - 12:00 pm

A Simpler Theory of Optimal Capital Taxation

Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University)
Co-author: Emmanuel Saez

1:00 - 2:00 pm

Marriage, Social Insurance and Labor Supply

Alessandra Voena (University of Chicago)
Co-authors: Hamish Low, Costas Meghir and Luigi Pistaferri

2:00 - 3:00 pm

The Welfare Effects of Encouraging Rural-Urban Migration

David Lagakos (University of California, San Diego)
Co-authors: Mushfiq Mobarak and Mike Waugh

3:30 - 4:30 pm

Fiscal Policy, Sovereign Risk, and Unemployment

Javier Bianchi (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis)
Co-authors: Pablo Ottonello and Ignacio Presno

4:30 - 5:30 pm

Identifying Ambiguity Shocks in Business Cycle Models Using Survey Data

Jaroslav Borovička (New York University)
Co-authors: Anmol Bhandari and Paul Ho

Friday, April 21, 2017

10:00 - 11:00 am

Misallocation in the Market for Inputs

Ezra Oberfield (Princeton University)
Co-author: Johannes Boehm

11:00 - 12:00 pm

Regional Heterogeneity and Monetary Policy

Martin Beraja (MIT & Princeton University)
Co-authors: Andreas Fuster, Erik Hurst and Joseph Vavra

1:00 - 2:00 pm

When Inequality Matters for Macro and Macro Matters for Inequality

Benjamin Moll (Princeton University)
Co-authors: SeHyoun Ahn, Greg Kaplan, Tom Winberry and Christian Wolf

2:00 - 3:00 pm

The Bank Lending Loan Covenant Channel

Gabriel Chodorow-Reich (Harvard University)
Co-author: Antonio Falato