39^th Annual Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Fall Conference

All events are at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Gateway Conference Center.

Thursday, October 9, 2014

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:
9:00 – 10:15 am	Resurrecting the Role of the Product Market Wedge in Recessions Presenter: Mark Bils, University of Rochester Coauthors: Pete Klenow and Ben Malin Discussant: Susanto Basu, Boston College
10:15 – 10:45 pm	Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 pm	The New Full-time Employment Tax Presenter: Casey Mulligan, University of Chicago Discussant: Andrew Shephard, University of Pennsylvania
12:00 – 1:00 pm	Lunch
Session II:
1:00 – 2:15 pm	Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates Presenter: John Kennan, University of Wisconsin Discussant: Ahu Gemici, Royal Holloway
2:15 – 2:45 pm	Coffee break
2:45 – 4:00 pm	Demand Stimulus and Inflation: Empirical Evidence Presenter: Iourii Manovskii, University of Pennsylvania Coauthors: Marcus Hagedorn and Jessie Handbury Discussant: Eric Sims, University of Notre Dame
4:00 – 5:15 pm	The Optimality of Financial Repression Presenter: V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota Coauthors: Alessandro Dovis and Patrick Kehoe Discussant: Satyajit Chatterjee, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
5:15 - 6:15 pm	Reception
6:30 pm	Dinner

8:00 – 9:00 am	Continental Breakfast
Session III:
9:00 – 10:15 am	Did the Job Ladder Fail After the Great Recession? Presenter: Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University Coauthor: Fabien Postel-Vinay Discussant: Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin
10:15 – 10:45 pm	Coffee break
10:45 - 12:00 pm	What Shifts the Beveridge Curve? Recruitment Effort and Financial Shocks Presenter: Gianluca Violante, New York University Coauthors: Alessandro Gavazza and Simon Mongey Discussant: William Hawkins, Yeshiva University
12:00 – 1:00 pm	Lunch
Session IV:
1:00 – 2:15 pm	Competition and Opacity Presenter: Ross Levine, University of California-Berkeley Coauthors: Liangliang Jian and Chen Lin Discussant: Pablo D'Erasmo, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
2:15 – 3:30 pm	TBD Presenter: Fernando Alvarez, University of Chicago Discussant: Andreas Lehnert, Federal Reserve Board
3:30	Adjourn