Fall Conference Interviews Feature Wide Range of Topics

Presenters at the St. Louis Fed’s 39th Annual Fall Conference sat down with David Andolfatto, a vice president and economist with the St. Louis Fed, to discuss their work in plain English. The interviews, which covered topics ranging from the Affordable Care Act to a breakdown in the job ladder, can be viewed at the links below.

• “Mandatory Disclosure and Financial Contagion” with Fernando Alvarez
• “Resurrecting the Role of the Product Market Wedge in Recessions” with Mark Bils
• “On the Optimality of Financial Repression” with V.V. Chari
• “Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates” with John Kennan
• “Competition and Bank Opacity” with Ross Levine
• “Demand Stimulus and Inflation: Empirical Evidence” with Iourii Manovskii 
• “Did the Job Ladder Fail After the Great Recession?” with Giuseppe Moscarini 
• “The New Full-Time Employment Taxes” with Casey Mulligan
• “What Shifts the Beveridge Curve? Recruitment Effort and Financial Shocks” with Gianluca Violante 

Additional Resources

• Connecting Policy with Frontier Research
• On the Economy: How World War I Changed Marriage Patterns in Europe
• On the Economy: Which States Are Most Affected by Falling Oil Prices?