October 10-11, 2013
All events are at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Gateway Conference Center.
| 8:00 – 8:45 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8: 45 – 9:00 am | Opening Remarks James Bullard, President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
Session I: |
Financial Markets 1 |
| 9:00 – 10:15 am | "Trade Dynamics in the Market for Federal Funds" Presenter: Ricardo Lagos, New York University Coauthor: Gara Afonso, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Discussant: Huberto Ennis, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond |
| 10:15 – 10:45 pm | Coffee break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 pm | "Banks' Risk Exposures" Presenter: Martin Schneider , Stanford University Coauthors: Juliane Begenau, Stanford University and Monika Piazzesi, Stanford University Discussant: Hanno Lustig, University of California-Los Angeles |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
Session II: |
Monetary Policy and Macro Dynamics |
| 1:00 – 2:15 pm | "Unemployment and Business Cycles" Presenter: Martin S. Eichenbaum, Northwestern University Coauthors: Lawrence J. Christiano, Northwestern University and Mathias Trabandt, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Discussant: Jaroslav Borovicka, New York University |
| 2:15 - 2:45 pm | Coffee break |
| 2:45 – 4:00 pm | Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy in a Model with Endogenous Collateral Constraints Presenter: Michael Woodford, Columbia University Coauthors: Aloísio Araújo, Getulio Vargas Foundation and Susan Schommer, Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada Discussant: Stephen Williamson, Washington University |
| 4:00 – 5:15 pm | "Leverage Restrictions in a Business Cycle Model" Presenter: Lawrence J. Christiano, Northwestern University Coauthor: Daisuke Ikeda, Bank of Japan Discussant: Benjamin Moll, Princeton University |
| 5:15 – 6:15 pm | Cocktails |
| 6:30 | Dinner |
| 8:00 – 9:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
Session III: |
Financial Markets 2 |
| 9:00 – 10:15 am | "Measuring the Financial Soundness of U.S. Firms, 1926—2012" Presenter: Andrew G. Atkeson, University of California-Los Angeles Coauthor: Andrea L. Eisfeldt, University of California-Los Angeles and Pierre-Olivier Weill, University of California-Los Angeles Discussant: Gian Luca Clementi, New York University |
| 10:15 – 10:45 pm | Coffee break |
| 10:45 – 12:00 pm | "The I Theory of Money" Presenter: Markus K. Brunnermeier, Princeton University Coauthor: Yuliy Sannikov, Princeton University Discussant: Ed Nosal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm | Lunch |
Session IV: |
Households Lifecycle Behavior |
| 1:00 – 2:15 pm | "Is There 'Too Much' Inequality in Health Spending Across Income Groups?" Presenter: Lawrence Jones, University of Minnesota Coauthors: Laurence Ales, Carnegie Mellon University and Roozbeh Hosseini , Arizona State University Discussant: Selahattin İmrohoroğlu, University of Southern California |
| 2:15 –3:30 pm | "Retirement, Home Production and Labor Supply Elasticities" Presenter: Richard Rogerson, Princeton University Coauthor: Johanna Wallenius, Stockholm School of Economics Discussant: Robert E. Lucas, Jr., University of Chicago |
| 3:30 pm | Adjourn |
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