All events are at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Gateway Conference Center.
Thursday, May 3, 2018
10:00 – 11:00 am
Reputation, Bailouts, and Interest Rate Spread Dynamics
Presenter: Alessandro Dovis (University of Pennslvania)
Coauthor: Rishabh Kirpalani
11:00 – 12:00 pm
International Currencies and Capital Allocation
Presenter: Matteo Maggiori (Havard University)
Coauthors: Brent Neiman; Jesse Schreger
12:00 – 1:00 pm
Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 pm
On the Origin of Core and Periphery Countries
Presenter: Maryam Farboodi (Princeton University)
Coauthor: Peter Kondor
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Inequality, Business Cycles and Monetary-Fiscal- Policy
Presenter: Anmol Bhandari (University of Minnesota)
Coauthors: David Evans; Mikhail Golosov; Thomas J. Sargent
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:30 pm
Employment Hysteresis from the Great Recession
Presenter: Danny Yagan (University of California- Berkeley)
4:30 – 5:30 pm
Measuring the equilibrium impacts of credit: Evidence from the Indian microfinance crisis
Presenter: Cynthia Kinnan (Northwestern University)
Coauthors: Emily Breza
5:30 pm
Conference Dinner
Friday, May 4, 2018
The Global Productivity Distribution and Ricardian Comparative Advantage
Presenter: Thomas Sampson (LSE)
Trade and Domestic Production Networks
Presenter: Felix Tintelnot (University of Chicago)
Coauthors: Ayumu Ken Kikkawa; Magne Mogstad; Emmanuel Dhyne
The rise in household spending concentration
Presenter: Joe Vavra (University of Chicago)
The Sources of Capital Misallocation
Presenter: Venky Venkateswaran (New York University)
Coauthors: Joel David