Seminar Series

The Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is sponsoring a Seminar Series on a wide variety of economic topics. Economists from across the country and around the world are invited to participate.

Unless otherwise noted, seminars will be held at the Gateway Conference Center, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, One Federal Reserve Bank Plaza, at the corner of Broadway and Locust Street, St. Louis, MO. Seminars held at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis are open to the public. If you wish to attend, you must call Sandra Butler at (314) 444-8591 at least 24 hours in advance. All attendees are required to go though a security screening and will be asked to show a picture ID.

Questions or suggestions should be directed to Subhayu Bandyopadhyay (Subhayu.Bandyopadhyay@stls.frb.org), Carlos Garriga (Carlos.Garriga@stls.frb.org), or Rajdeep Sengupta (Rajdeep.Sengupta@stls.frb.org).

Spring 2009 Seminars

*Wednesday, February 18, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Adrian Peralta-Alva, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
"Numerical Simulation of Nonoptimal Dynamic Equilibrium Models"

**Wednesday, February 25, 2009 — 4:00 PM
V. V. Chari, University of Minnesota and Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
"Sophisticated Monetary Policies"

**Wednesday, March 4, 2009 — 4:00 PM
João Gomes, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
"Durability of Output and Expected Stock Returns"

Monday, March 16, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Valentina Corradi, University of Warwick
"International Market Links and Volatility Transmission" with Walter Distaso and Marcelo Fernandes
Host: Luciana Juvenal

**Wednesday, March 18, 2009 — 4:00 PM
Gianluca Violante, New York University
"Frictional Wage Dispersion in Search Models: A Quantitative Assessment"

*Wednesday, March 25, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Adriano Rampini, Duke/Fuqua
"Collateral, Financial Intermediation and the Distribution of Debt Capacity"

**Wednesday, April 1, 2009 — 4:00 PM
B. Ravikumar, University of Iowa
"On the Cross-Country Distribution of Welfare Gains from Trade"

Thursday, April 9, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Mark E. Wohar, University of Nebraska-Omaha
"A New Look At The Taylor Curve and The Great Moderation: A Look at Dynamic Conditional Correlations"
Host: Dave Wheelock

*Wednesday, April 15, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Martin Schneider, Stanford University
"Asset Trading and Valuation with Uncertain Exposure"

*Friday, April 17, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Charles Engel, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Currency Misalignments and Optimal Monetary Policy: A Reexamination"
Host: Luciana Juvenal

Friday, April 24, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Wayne Roy-Gayle, University of Virginia
"Noisy Addicts? Estimation of Optimal Consumption Choice with Habit Formation and Measurement Error"
Host: Michael Owyang

**Wednesday, April 29, 2009 — 4:00 PM
Ellen McGrattan, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
"Transition to FDI Openness"

Thursday, April 30, 2009 — 2:00 PM
William Evans, University of Notre Dame
"Liquidity, Activity, Mortality"
Host: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay

*Wednesday, May 6, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Manuel Santos, University of Miami
"Long-Term Asset Price Volatility and Macroeconomic Fluctuations"
Host: Adrian Peralta-Alva

Thursday, May 7, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Kala Krishna, Penn State University
"Trade Policy with Endogenous Entry Revisited"
Host: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay

*Wednesday, May 13, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Eric Young, Virginia University
"Information Heterogeneity in the Macroeconomy"
Host: Carlos Garriga

Thursday, May 21, 2009 — 10:00 AM
Gordon Dahl, University of California-San Diego
"Family Violence and Football: Testing Rational Choice Models of Violent Crime"
Host: Rubén Hernández-Murillo

* Joint with the Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis. These seminars will take place at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

** Joint with the Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis. These seminars will take place at Washington University in St. Louis. Please visit http://www.artsci.wustl.edu/~yshin/macroworkshop.html for further information.

Spring 2009 Schedule (PDF)

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