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2023 Seminar Series
Sep 21, 2023, 12:00 pm
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Sergio Ocampo, Western University
Host: Serdar Oskan
Sep 19, 2023, 12:00 pm
Seminar
Speaker: Andy Atkeson, UCLA
Title: “Reconciling Macro and Finance for the US Corporate Sector 1929-2022,” with Jonathan Heathcote and Fabrizio Perri
Host: Julian Kozlowski
Sep 18, 2023, 12:00 pm
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Thomas Drechsel, University of Maryland
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
Sep 12, 2023, 12:00 pm
Seminar
Speaker: Yueran Ma, University of Chicago
Title: "Superstar Firms through the Generations," with Benjamin Pugsley and Kaspar Zimmermann
Host: Julian Kozlowski
Sep 7, 2023, 12:00 pm
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Yasin Kursat Onder, Ghent University
Host: Serdar Oskan
Sep 5, 2023, 12:00 pm
Seminar
Speaker: David Baqaee, UCLA
Title: "Measuring Welfare by Matching Households Across Time"
Host: Julian Kozlowski
Aug 21, 2023, 12:00 pm
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Zhen Huo, Yale University
Title: "Bias and Sensitivity under Ambiguity"
Host: Fernando Martin
Aug 9, 2023, 12:00 pm
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Michael Peters, Yale University
Title: "Immigration, Innovation, and Spatial Economic Development: Theory and Evidence from the Age of Mass Migration"
Host: Juan Sanchez
Aug 8, 2023, 12:00 pm
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Yajie Wang, University of Missouri—Columbia
Title: "Uncertainty and Unemployment Revisited: The Consequences of Financial and Labor Contracting Frictions"
Host: Juan Sanchez
July 24, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: James Graham, University of Sydney
Title: "Consumption Behavior Across the Distribution of Liquid Assets," with Robert A. McDowall
Host: Victoria Gregory
July 18, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Jonathan Payne, Princeton University
Host: Fernando Martin
May 25, 2023, 12 pm
Speaker: Michael McCracken, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: “Growth at Risk is Investment at Risk”
Speaker: Juan Sánchez, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: “Sovereign Default and Growth Policies: A Tale of Debt Dilution and Debt Overhang”
Speaker: Mark Wright, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: TBD
Host: Julian Kozlowski
Mar 23, 2023, 12 pm
Speaker: Christopher Herrington, Virginia Commonwealth University
Title: "Racial Gaps in Student Loan Repayment and Default: A Lifecycle Approach"
Host: Alexander Bick
May 18, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: André Silva, Nova School of Business and Economics and University of Chicago
Title: "Dealer Costs and Customer Choice"
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
May 17, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Gorkem Bostanci, University of British Columbia
Title: "Changing Jobs to Fight Inflation: Labor Market Reactions to Inflationary Shocks"
Host: Serdar Birinci
May 16, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Allesandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania
Title: “Unique Implementation with Market-Based Interventions,” with Rishabh Kirpalani
Host: Julian Kozlowski
May 11, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Eduardo Davila, Yale University
Title: "Welfare Assessments with Heterogeneous Individuals," with Andreas Schaab
Host: Julian Koslowski
May 9, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Diego Daruich, University of California
Host: Julian Kozlowski
May 3, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Roman Shi, Toronto Metropolitan University
Host: Hannah Rubinton
Apr 27, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Boragan Aruoba, University of Maryland
Title: "Real Rigidities, Firm Dynamics, and Montary Non-Nueutrality: Role of Demand Shocks"
Host: Julian Kozlowski
Apr 25, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Ben Griffy, University at Albany, SUNY
Host: Victoria Gregory
April 19, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Ana Figueiredo, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
April 18, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Raul Santaeulalia-Llopis, University of Pennsylvania and CEPR
Title: "Stage-Based Identification of Policy Effects," with Christian Alemán, Christopher Busch, and Alexander Ludwig
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
Apr 13, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Title: "Optimal Policy Rules in HANK," with Christian K. Wolf
Host: Julian Kozlowski
Apr 12, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: YiLi Chien, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: “How About Japan?”
Speaker: Michael Owyang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: “Impulse Response Functions for Self-Exciting Models”
Host: Julian Kozlowski
Apr 11, 2023, 12 pm
Speaker: Yongseok Shin, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Is Software Eating the World?"
Host: Julian Kozlowski
Apr 6, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Yan Bai, University of Rochester
Host: B. Ravikumar
Apr 5, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Pablo Ottonello, University of Michigan
Title: "External Crises and Devaluations: A Heterogeneous-Firm Perspective," with Caitlin Hegarty, Matias Moretti, and Diego Perez
Host: Julian Kozlowski
Apr 4, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Leo Kaas, Goethe University Frankfurt
Host: Serdar Birinci
Mar 29, 2023, 12 pm
Speaker: Baris Kaymak, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Host: Serdar Oskan
Mar 28, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Ina Simonovska, University of California, Davis
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
Mar 14, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Juan Martin Morelli, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
Mar 9, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Laura Gati, European Central Bank
Host: Juan Sanchez
Mar 8, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speakers: Bill Dupor, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "The Jobs Effect of Ending Pandemic Unemployment Benefits: A State-Level Analysis," with Iris Arbogast
Speaker: Hannah Rubinton, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: “The Adoption of Non-Rival Inputs and Firm Scope”
Speaker: Ana Maria Santacreu, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "International Technology Licensing, Intellectual Property Rights, and Tax Havens"
Host: Julian Kozlowski
March 2, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Mark Bils, University of Rochester
Host: Julian Koslowski
Mar 1, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Aarti Singh, University of Sydney
Host: Jim Bullard
Feb 28, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Marta Prato, Yale University
Host: Yu-Ting Chiang
Feb 23, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago
Host: Julian Kozlowski
Feb 22, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Jeremy Majerovitz, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: Julian Kozlowski
2022 Seminar Series
February 23, 2023, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago
Host: Julian Kozlowski
December 15, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Bill Dupor, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: “Macroeconomics and the ‘Local Effect’ Regression”
Speaker: Fernando Leibovici, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "Shortages of Critical Goods in a Global Economy: Optimal Trade and Industrial Policy"
Speaker: Juan Sánchez, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: “From Population Growth to TFP Growth” (with Hiroshi Inokuma)
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
December 8, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: George Alessandria, University of Rochester
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
December 6, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Gianluca Violante, Princeton University
Title: "Some Like It Hot: Inclusive Monetary Policy under Okun’s Hypothesis," with Felipe Alves
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
November 30, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Miguel Faria-e-Castro, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: “A Quantitative Theory of Relationship Lending”
Speaker: Michael McCracken, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: “Conditional Forecasting of Sovereign Defaults: A Panel Approach”
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
November 29, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Hyunju Lee, Toronto Metropolitan University
Host: Serdar Birinci
November 15, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Paolo Martellini, University of Wisconsin
Title: "A Theory of Business Transfers," with Anmol Bhandari and Ellen McGrattan
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
November 9, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota
Title: "On the Nature of Entrepreneurship," with Anmol Bhandari, Tobey
Kass, Thomas May, and Evan Schulz
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
November 3, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto
Title: "A Macroeconomic Perspective on Taxing Multinational Enterprises"
Host: Fernando Martin
November 2, 2022, 12:15 pm
Speaker: Basil Williams, New York University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
November 1, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Christian Hellwig, Toulouse School of Economics
Title: “A Fair Day’s Pay for a Fair Day’s Work: Optimal Tax Design as Redistributional Arbitrage” (with Nicolas Werquin)
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
October 27, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
October 25, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
October 19, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Bill Dupor, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "Macroeconomics and the 'Local Effect' Regression"
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
October 11, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Minjie Deng, Simon Fraser University
Host: Juan Sánchez
October 5, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Fernando Martin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "Fiscal Dominance"
Speaker: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
Title: "The Dual Beveridge Curve"
September 29, 2022, 12 pm
Speaker: Felicia Ionescu, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Title: “Borrowing Premia in the Unsecured Credit Market”
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
September 29, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Felicia Ionescu, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
September 28, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Serdar Ozkan, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "What Are the Wealthiest So Wealthy?"
Speaker: Guillaume Vandenbroucke, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: TBD
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
September 27, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Filipe Saffie, University of Virginia
Title: Pricing Under Distress
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
September 21, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Juan Rubio-Ramírez, Emory University
Host: Carlos Garriga
September 20, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Ben Lester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Title: The Heterogeneous Impact of Referrals on Labor Market Outcomes
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
September 7, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Ana Maria Santacreu, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "Dynamic Gains from Trade Agreements with Intellectual Property Provisions"
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
September 6, 2022,12:00 pm
Speaker: Andy Neumeyer, Universidad Torcuato di Tella
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
August 31, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "Politically Influenced Counterterrorism Policy and Welfare Efficiency"
Speaker: Maximiliano Dvorkin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: TBD
Speaker: Oksana Leukhina, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "Causes and Consequences of Student-College Mismatch"
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
August 30, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Xian Jiang, University of California, Davis
Host: Juan Sánchez
August 25, 2022, 12:00 pm
Speaker: Rosemary Kaiser, Rutgers University
Host: Juan Sánchez
May 26, 2022, 12pm
Speaker: Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
May 17, 2022, 12pm
Speaker: Ben Lester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
May 12, 2022, 12pm
Speaker: Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
May 10, 2022, 12pm
Speaker: Javier Cravino, University of Michigan
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
May 3, 2022, 12pm
Speaker: Frederico Huneeus, Central Bank of Chile
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
April 28, 2022, 12pm
Speaker: Mike Waugh, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
April 21, 2022, 12pm
Speaker: Juan Pablo Nicolini, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
April 12, 2022, 12pm
Speaker: Eiji Goto, UMSL
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
April 6, 2022, 12pm
Speaker: Vanessa Kunzmann, University of Regensburg
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
April 5, 2022, 12pm
Speaker: Ned Prescott, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
March 31, 2022, 12pm
Speaker: Mark Huggett, Georgetown University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
Title: "Optimal Income Taxation: An Urban Economics Perspective"
2022-03-29, 12:00:00
Speaker: Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2022-03-15, 12:00:00
Speaker: Espen Henriksen, BI Norwegian School of Business
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2022-03-08, 12:00:00
Speaker: Manuel Garcia-Santana, UPF and Princeton University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2022-03-03, 12:00:00
Speaker: Kurt Mitman, Institute for International Economic Studies
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2022-02-10, 12:00:00
Title: Learning About the Long Run
Speaker: Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2021 Seminar Series
2021-11-17, 12:00:00
Title: Health Inequality: Role of Insurance and Technological Progress
Speaker: Siddhartha Sanghi, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
Applied Micro Series, held at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.
2021-11-09, 12:00:00
Title: Fiscal Policy at the ZLB without Rational Expectations
Speaker: Martin Eichenbaum, Northwestern University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2021-10-12, 12:00:00
Title: Are Trade Agreements Good for You?
Speaker: Ralph Ossa, University of Zurich
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2021-10-07, 12:00:00
Title: Micro Risks and Pareto Improving Policies
Speaker: Mark Aguiar, Princeton University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2021-05-27, 11:00:00
Title: The Impact of Covid-19 on Productivity
Speaker: Paul Mizen, University of Nottingham
Host: Kevin Kliesen
2021-05-13, 11:00:00
Title: The Mortgage Rate Conundrum
Speaker: Giorgio Primiceri, Northwestern University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2021-05-10, 12:00:00
Speaker: Javier Cravino, University of Michigan
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2021-04-29, 11:00:00
Title: The Macroeconomy of Intensive Agriculture
Speaker: Timo Boppart, Institute for International Economic Studies
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2021-04-22, 11:00:00
Title: The Slope of the Phillips Curve: Evidence from U.S. States
Speaker: Juan Herreno, Columbia University/UCSD
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2021-04-15, 11:00:00
Title: The Impact of Covid-19 on Small Business Dynamics Employment: Real-Time Estimates with Homebase Data
Speaker: Andre Kurmann, Drexel University
Host: Serdar Birinci
2021-04-08, 11:00:00
Title: The Disruption of Long Term Bank Credit
Speaker: Jonathan Payne, Princeton University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2021-04-01, 11:00:00
Title: Monetary Policy with Opinionated Markets
Speaker: Alp Simsek, MIT/Chicago Booth
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2021-03-24, 11:00:00
Title: When Hosios Meets Phillips: Connecting Efficiency and Stability to Demand Shocks
Speaker: Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Host: Serdar Birinci
2021-03-18, 11:00:00
Title: Interest Rate Cuts vs. Stimulus Payments: A Macro Equivalence Result
Speaker: Christian Wolf, University of Chicago
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2021-03-16, 11:00:00
Title: International Spillovers and Local Credit Cycles
Speaker: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, University of Maryland
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2021-03-11, 11:00:00
Title: Health and Macro Fluctuations
Speaker: Thorsten Drautzburg, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2021-03-04, 11:00:00
Title: Networks, Phillips Curves, and Monetary Policy
Speaker: Elisa Rubbo, Harvard University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2020 Seminar Series
2020-12-17, 11:00:00
Title: Contagious Bubbles
Speaker: Zhen Huo, Yale University
Host: Yi Wen
2020-12-14, 11:00:00
Title: Hours and Wages
Speaker: Alexander Bick, Arizona State University
Host: Serdar Birinci
2020-12-01, 11:00:00
Title: A Tale of Two Cities: Amazon HQ2 and Housing Price Expectations
Speaker: Carlos Garriga, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-11-17, 11:00:00
Title: How Costly Is Noise? Data and Disparities in the US Mortgage Market
Speaker: Laura Blattner, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2020-11-12, 11:00:00
Title: The Micro Anatomy of Macro Consumption Adjustments
Speaker: Diego Perez, New York University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2020-11-10, 11:00:00
Title: Institution Building without Commitment
Speaker: Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: YiLi Chien
2020-11-09, 11:00:00
Title: Bottom-up Markup Fluctuations
Speaker: Basile Grassi, Bocconi University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2020-11-06, 11:00:00
Title: What Drives International Technology Diffusion? A Gravity Approach
Speaker: Ana Maria Santacreu, A
Host: None
2020-11-03, 11:00:00
Title: The Ante Aggregatio Approach to Applied Macro
Speaker: William Dupor, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-10-30, 11:00:00
Title: Seigniorage and Sovereign Default: A Quantitative Evaluation
Speaker: Juan Sanchez, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-10-26, 11:00:00
Title: Responses of International Central Banks to the COVID-19 Crisis
Speaker: Christopher Neely, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-10-21, 11:00:00
Title: The Rise of US Earnings Inequality: Does the Cycle Drive the Trend?
Speaker: Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: YiLi Chien
2020-10-19, 11:00:00
Title: Central Banking with Many Voices: The Communications Arms Race
Speaker: Annette Vissing-Jorgensen, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Kevin Kliesen
2020-10-13, 11:00:00
Title: The Gender Pay Gap: Micro Sources and Macro Consequences
Speaker: Christian Moser, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: Serdar Birinci
2020-10-08, 11:00:00
Title: Workers’ Skills, Occupational Choice and the Labor Market Effects of International Trade
Speaker: Maximiliano Dvorkin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-09-28, 11:00:00
Title: Seigniorage and Sovereign Default
Speaker: Fernando Martin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-09-17, 11:00:00
Title: Rents and Intangible Capital: A Q+ Framework
Speaker: Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2020-09-11, 11:00:00
Title: Binary Conditional Forecasts
Speaker: Michael McCracken, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-08-13, 11:00:00
Title: Revisiting the Fed’s Forecast Advantage
Speaker: Michael Owyang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-08-05, 11:00:00
Title: Of Cities and Slums
Speaker: Alexander Monge-Naranjo, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-08-04, 11:00:00
Title: Optimal Inflation Target --- A Reconciliation Between Theory and Practice
Speaker: YiLi Chien, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-08-03, 11:00:00
Title: Counterterrorism Policy: Spillovers, Regime Stability, and Corner Solutions
Speaker: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-07-24, 11:00:00
Title: How Should Unemployment Insurance Vary over the Business Cycle?
Speaker: Serdar Birinci, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-07-06, 11:00:00
Title: Measuring Sectoral Supply and Demand Shocks during COVID-19
Speaker: Miguel Faria-e-Castro, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-06-11, 11:10:00
Title: International Trade of Essential Goods During a Pandemic
Speaker: Fernando Leibovici, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-06-08, 11:00:00
Title: Social Distancing in an Epidemic
Speaker: Guillaume Vandenbroucke, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-06-04, 11:00:00
Title: Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows: The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens
Speaker: Jesse Schreger, Columbia University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2020-05-29, 12:00:00
Title: Sorting of Students into Colleges: Inefficiencies and Policy Implications
Speaker: Oksana Leukhina, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-05-18, 11:30:00
Title: The Macroeconomics of Epidemics
Speaker: Sergio Rebelo, Northwestern University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2020-04-13, 12:00:00
Title: Yield Curve Control and Liquidity Insurance
Speaker: David Andolfatto, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-03-30, 12:00:00
Title: Macroeconomic Implications of Uniform Pricing
Speaker: Julian Kozlowski, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-03-05, 12:00:00
Title: Tracing the International Transmission of a Crisis Through Multinational Firms
Speaker: Kilian Huber, University of Chicago-Booth
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2020-02-24, 12:00:00
Title: Automation, Growth and Factor Shares
Speaker: Joseba Martinez, London Business School
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2020-02-19, 12:00:00
Title: Resource Curse or Blessing? Sovereign Risk in Resource-Rich Emerging Economies
Speaker: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-02-13, 12:00:00
Title: The Distributional Impacts of Transportation Network in China
Speaker: Yang Tang, Nanyang Technological University
Host: Carlos Garriga
2020-01-07, 12:00:00
Title: What Does Financial Crisis Tell Us About Exporter Behavior and Credit Reallocation
Speaker: Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2020-01-06, 12:00:00
Title: The Kansas Tax Experiment and the Matter of the Legal Form of Organization
Speaker: Don Schlagenhauf, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019 Seminar Series
2019-12-19, 12:00:00
Title: Optimal Infant Industry Protection
Speaker: B. Ravikumar, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-12-18, 12:00:00
Title: Consumption in the Great Recession: The Financial Distress Channel
Speaker: Juan Sanchez, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-12-17, 12:00:00
Title: Interbank Connections, Contagion and Bank Distress in the Great Depression
Speaker: David Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-12-11, 12:00:00
Title: Foreign Reserve Management at Zero Interest Rates
Speaker: Manuel Amador, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-11-22, 12:00:00
Title: Systemic Risk and the Great Depression
Speaker: Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College
Host: David Wheelock
2019-11-19, 12:00:00
Title: Unconventional Monetary Policy and the Behavior of Shorts
Speaker: Christopher Neely, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-11-18, 12:00:00
Title: Optimal Wage Setting Under Targeted Search
Speaker: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-11-15, 14:00:00
Title: Competition and Investment in Mobile Telecommunication
Speaker: Paul Scott, New York University Stern School of Business
Host: Sungki Hong
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.
2019-11-14, 12:00:00
Title: Misrepresentation in Securitized Auto Loans
Speaker: Thomas Herndon, Loyola Marymount University
Host: William Dupor
2019-11-12, 12:00:00
Title: Tests of Conditional Predictive Ability: Some Simulation Evidence
Speaker: Michael McCracken, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-11-08, 12:00:00
Title: Welfare Consequences of Nominal Excise Taxation
Speaker: Eugenio Miravete, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Carlos Garriga
2019-11-07, 12:00:00
Title: A Dynamic Choice Model of College Enrollment, Academic Progression, and Completion with Endogenous Risk
Speaker: Carlos Garriga, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-11-06, 12:00:00
Title: The Impact of Financial Constraints on Investment, Dividends, and q
Speaker: Andrew Abel, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-11-04, 12:00:00
Title: Monetary Operating Procedures in the Fed Funds Market: Theory, Evidence, and Policy Analysis
Speaker: Gaston Navarro, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-10-31, 12:00:00
Title: The Long-Run Effects of Monetary Policy
Speaker: Sanjay R. Singh, University of California, Davis
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-10-28, 12:00:00
Title: Multi-Product Pricing: Theory and Evidence From Large Retailers in Israel
Speaker: Oleksiy Kryvtsov, Bank of Canada
Host: William Dupor
2019-10-25, 14:00:00
Title: Uneven Growth: Automation's Impact on Income and Wealth Inequality
Speaker: Pascual Restrepo, Boston University
Host: Maximiliano Dvorkin
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.
2019-10-23, 12:00:00
Title: Monetary Policy and the Limits to Arbitrage: Insights from a New Keynesian Preferred Habitat Model
Speaker: Walker Ray, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-10-21, 12:00:00
Title: Tariff Passthrough at the Border and at the Store: Evidence from U.S. Trade Policy
Speaker: Alberto Cavallo, Harvard Business School
Host: Julian Kozlowski
2019-10-18, 14:00:00
Title: Compatibility and Investment in the U.S. Electric Vehicle Market
Speaker: Jing Li, MIT Sloan
Host: Sungki Hong
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.
2019-10-17, 12:00:00
Title: Regional Divergence and House Prices
Speaker: Greg Howard, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Host: Don Schlagenhauf
2019-10-15, 12:00:00
Title: Rising Concentration and Wage Inequality
Speaker: Matias Cortes, York University
Host: Alexander Monge-Naranjo
2019-10-07, 12:00:00
Title: Exchange Rates and Uncovered Interest Differentials: The Role of Permanent Monetary Shocks
Speaker: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, Columbia University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-10-04, 12:00:00
Title: Treasury vs Fed
Speaker: Fernando Martin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-10-03, 12:00:00
Title: Wealth Effects and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy
Speaker: Nicolas Caramp, University of California-Davis
Host: Carlos Garriga
2019-10-02, 14:00:00
Title: 21st Century Macro
Speaker: Narayana Kocherlakota, University of Rochester
Host: Carlos Garriga
2019-09-30, 12:00:00
Title: Declining Search Frictions, Unemployment and Growth
Speaker: Guido Menzio, New York University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2019-09-27, 14:00:00
Title: Heterogeneous Firms: Skilled-Labor Productivity and the Destination of Exports
Speaker: Jorge Balat, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Maximiliano Dvorkin
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.
2019-09-26, 12:00:00
Title: The End of the American Dream? Inequality and Segregation in US Cities
Speaker: Alessandra Fogli, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-09-24, 12:00:00
Title: What Drives International Technology Transfers? A Gravity Approach
Speaker: Ana Maria Santacreu, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-09-20, 12:00:00
Title: Truncated Productivity Distributions and Trade Margins
Speaker: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-09-19, 12:00:00
Title: On the Negatives of Negative Interest Rates and the Positives of Exemption Thresholds
Speaker: Romina Ruprecht, University of Basel
Host: None
2019-09-17, 12:00:00
Title: Mussa Puzzle Redux
Speaker: Dmitry Mukhin, Yale University
Host: Fernando Leibovici
2019-09-13, 14:00:00
Title: Production and Learning in Teams
Speaker: Jeremy Lise, University of Minnesota
Host: Oksana Leukhina
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.
2019-08-29, 12:00:00
Title: The Determination of Optimal Public Debt under Both Aggregate and Idiosyncratic Uncertainty
Speaker: YiLi Chien, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-08-27, 12:00:00
Title: Use it or Lose it: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation
Speaker: Fatih Guvenen, University of Minnesota
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2019-08-26, 12:00:00
Title: Decomposing Present Value Effects: Evidence from a Large-Scale Restructuring
Speaker: Deniz Aydin, Washington University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-08-22, 12:00:00
Title: Global Innovation and Knowledge Diffusion
Speaker: Nelson Lind, Emory University
Host: Ana Maria Santacreu
2019-08-19, 12:00:00
Title: Employment Inequality: Why Do the Low-Skilled Work Less Now?
Speaker: Erin Wolcott, Middlebury College
Host: William Dupor
2019-08-07, 12:00:00
Title: The Riskiness of Owning vs. Renting Housing
Speaker: Scott Baker, Kellogg School of Management-Northwestern University
Host: Julian Kozlowski
2019-08-05, 12:00:00
Title: Contagious Switching
Speaker: Michael Owyang, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-08-01, 12:00:00
Title: Trade, Jobs, and Worker Welfare
Speaker: Eunhee Lee, University of Maryland
Host: Maximiliano Dvorkin
2019-07-30, 12:00:00
Title: Investment Slumps during Financial Crises: The Role of Credit Constraints
Speaker: Tiago Tavares, ITAM
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-07-23, 12:00:00
Title: Economics of Liquidity Traps: Paradoxical?
Speaker: Francisco Buera, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-07-22, 12:00:00
Title: Consumption with Imperfect Perception of Wealth
Speaker: Chen Lian, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Host: Julian Kozlowski
2019-07-16, 12:00:00
Title: The Conquest of the Homeownership Dream: 1940-1960
Speaker: Don Schlagenhauf, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-07-10, 12:00:00
Title: Occupational Choice and the Dynamics of Human Capital, Inequality and Growth
Speaker: Maximiliano Dvorkin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-07-02, 12:00:00
Title: A Ramsey Theory of Low Interest Rates
Speaker: Wei Cui, University College London
Host: Yi Wen
2019-07-01, 12:00:00
Title: Organization of Knowledge and Taxation
Speaker: Marek Kapička, CERGE-EI
Host: Carlos Garriga
2019-06-24, 12:00:00
Title: The Technology Multiplier for Employment
Speaker: William Dupor, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-06-21, 12:00:00
Title: Global Imbalances and Industrial Revolutions
Speaker: Alexander Monge-Naranjo, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-06-20, 12:00:00
Title: Firm-Level Credit Ratings and Default in the Great Recession: Theory and Evidence
Speaker: Fernando Leibovici, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-06-12, 12:00:00
Title: A Quantitative Analysis of Countercyclical Capital Buffers
Speaker: Miguel Faria-e-Castro, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-06-06, 12:00:00
Title: On Money as a Medium of Exchange in Near-Cashless Credit Economies
Speaker: Ricardo Lagos, New York University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-05-29, 12:00:00
Title: Liquidity Risk and Long-Term Finance: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Speaker: Nicola Limodio, Bocconi University
Host: Julian Kozlowski
2019-05-22, 12:00:00
Title: Consumer Bankruptcy as Aggregate Demand Management
Speaker: Adrien Auclert, Stanford University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-05-17, 14:00:00
Title: Does Federally-Funded Job Training Work? Non-experimental Estimates of WIA Training Impacts Using Longitudinal Data on Workers and Firms
Speaker: Jeffrey Smith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Host: Oksana Leukhina
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.
2019-05-15, 12:00:00
Title: Fiscal Rules and Discretion under Limited Enforcement
Speaker: Pierre Yared, Columbia University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-05-13, 12:00:00
Title: Comparative Advantage and Moonlighting
Speaker: Guillaume Vandenbroucke, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-05-09, 12:00:00
Title: Demography as a Leading Factor in the Rise of Inequality
Speaker: James Bullard and Guillaume Vandenbroucke, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (Open to FRB employees only.)
Host: None
Open to FRB employees only
2019-05-08, 12:00:00
Title: Taxation and Household Decisions: an Intertemporal Analysis
Speaker: Maurizio Mazzocco, University of California-Los Angeles
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-05-01, 12:00:00
Title: Micro Jumps, Macro Humps: Monetary Policy and Business Cycles in an Estimated HANK Model
Speaker: Ludwig Straub, Harvard University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-04-30, 12:00:00
Title: Uniform Pricing Within and Across Regions: New Evidence from Argentina
Speaker: Julian Kozlowski, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-04-24, 12:00:00
Title: A Theory of Participation in OTC and Centralized Markets
Speaker: Pierre-Olivier Weill, University of California-Los Angeles
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2019-04-22, 12:00:00
Title: Universal Basic Income: A Good Idea? A Dynamic Assessment
Speaker: Diego Daruich, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-04-18, 12:00:00
Title: Income and Substitution Effects of Capital Inflows: A Firm-Level Analysis
Speaker: Felipe Saffie, University of Maryland
Host: Maximiliano Dvorkin
2019-04-15, 12:00:00
Title: International Evidence on Long Run Money Demand
Speaker: Juan Pablo Nicolini, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
2019-04-12, 12:00:00
Title: Herding Cycles
Speaker: Edouard Schaal, CREI/Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-04-10, 12:00:00
Title: Credit Shocks and Equilibrium Dynamics in Consumer Durable Goods Markets
Speaker: Andrea Lanteri, Duke University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-04-04, 12:00:00
Title: Accounting for Macro-Finance Trends: Market Power, Intangibles, and Risk Premia
Speaker: Franҫois Gourio, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-04-03, 12:00:00
Title: Earnings Growth, Job Flows and Churn
Speaker: David Wiczer, Stony Brook University
Host: Fernando Martin
2019-04-02, 12:00:00
Title: Leverage Regulation and Market Structure: A Structural Model of the UK Mortgage Market
Speaker: Matteo Benetton, University of California at Berkeley
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-03-29, 12:00:00
Title: Imperfect Information Transmission from Banks to Investors: Macroeconomic Implications
Speaker: Oksana Leukhina, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-03-27, 12:00:00
Title: Retirement in the Shadow (Banking)
Speaker: Guillermo Ordonez, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-03-26, 12:00:00
Title: Debt Sustainability in a Low Interest Rate World
Speaker: Neil Mehrotra, Brown University
Host: Maximiliano Dvorkin
2019-03-25, 12:00:00
Title: Optimal Ramsey Taxation in Heterogeneous Agent Economies with Quasi‐Linear Preferences
Speaker: Yi Wen, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-03-21, 12:00:00
Title: The U.S. Equity Listing Decline and the Aggregate Economy
Speaker: Karen Lewis, University of Pennsylvania-The Wharton School
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-03-18, 12:00:00
Title: Size-Based Tax Policies and Investment Dynamics
Speaker: Sungki Hong, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: None
2019-03-13, 12:00:00
Title: Flexible Retirement and Optimal Taxation
Speaker: Abdoulaye Ndiaye, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-03-06, 12:00:00
Title: The Macroeconomics of the Greek Depression
Speaker: Rohan Kekre, The University of Chicago Booth
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-02-28, 12:00:00
Title: Inferring Inequality with Home Production
Speaker: Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-02-27, 12:00:00
Title: Escaping the Losses from Trade: The Impact of Heterogeneity on Skill Acquisition
Speaker: Axelle Ferriere, Paris School of Economics
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
2019-02-26, 12:00:00
Title: Can Technology Undermine Macroprudential Regulation? Evidence from Peer-to-Peer Credit in China
Speaker: Fabio Braggion, Tilburg University
Host: Riccardo DiCecio
2019-02-22, 14:00:00
Title: The ABCs of Firm Heterogeneity: The Effects of Demand and Cost Differences on Exporting
Speaker: David Rivers, Western University
Host: Sungki Hong
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.
2019-02-21, 12:00:00
Title: Sovereign Default Risk and Firm Heterogeneity
Speaker: Cristina Arellano, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: Faria-e-Castro
2019-02-20, 12:00:00
Title: Sovereign Debt Restructuring and Recovery
Speaker: Violeta Gutkowski, Brown University
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
