The theme of this year's conference is "Debt, Financial Markets, and Monetary Policy." Several leading participants in this literature will present their research and commentary.
All events are at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Gateway Conference Center.
Please note that attendance is by invitation only.
To request to attend the conference, or for information about the conference or help with hotel reservations, please contact Denise Cain at denise.a.cain@stls.frb.org, (314) 444-8567, or 1-800-333-0810, ext. 44-8567.
| Conference Program | |||
| Thursday, October 15, 2009 | |||
| "Opening Remarks" — | James Bullard, President, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | ||
| "Decentralized Trading with Private Information" | |||
| Presenter: | Michael Golosov, Yale University | ||
| Coauthors: | Guido Lorenzoni, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Aleh Tsyvinski, Yale University | ||
| Discussant: | TBD | ||
| "Growing Like China" | |||
| Presenter: | Kjetil Storesletten, University of Oslo | ||
| Coauthors: | Zhen Michael Song, Fudan University Fabrizio Zilibotti, Stockholm University | ||
| Discussant: | George A. Alessandria, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia | ||
| "Redistributive Taxation in a Partial-Insurance Economy" | |||
| Presenter: | Gianlucca Violante, New York University | ||
| Coauthors: | Jonathan Heathcote, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Kjetil Storesletten, University of Oslo | ||
| Discussant: | Yongseok Shin, Washington University St. Louis and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | ||
| "Conventional and Unconventional Monetary Policy" | |||
| Presenter: | Michael Woodford, Columbia University | ||
| Coauthor: | Vasco R. Curdia, Federal Reserve Bank of New York | ||
| Discussant: | Michele Boldrin, Washington University in St. Louis and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | ||
| "New Monetarist Economics" | |||
| Presenter: | Stephen Williamson, Washington University in St. Louis and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | ||
| Coauthor: | Randall Wright, University of Wisconsin—Madison | ||
| Discussant: | Robert E. Lucas Jr., University of Chicago | ||
| "Asset Prices, Liquidity, and Monetary Policy" | |||
| Presenter: | Ricardo Lagos, New York University | ||
| Discussant: | Gaetano Antinolfi, Washington University in St. Louis and Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis | ||
| Friday, October 16, 2009 | |||
| "Fortune or Virtue: Time-Variant Volatilities Versus Parameter Drifts in the Great Moderation" | |||
| Presenter: | Jesús Fernández-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania | ||
| Coauthors: | Pablo A. Guerron, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Juan F. Rubio-Ramirez, Duke University and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | ||
| Discussant: | Tao Zha, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | ||
| "Winners and Losers in Housing Markets" | |||
| Presenter: | Nobuhiro Kiyotaki, Princeton University | ||
| Coauthors: | Alexander Michaelides, London School of Economics Kalin Nikolov, London School of Economics | ||
| Discussant: | Don E. Schlagenhauf, Florida State University | ||
| "Confronting Models of Financial Frictions with the Data" | |||
| Presenter: | V.V. Chari, University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | ||
| Coauthor: | Patrick Kehoe, University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | ||
| Discussant: | Harold L. Cole, University of Pennsylvania | ||
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