Economics Seminar Series

Dec 10, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Economist: Julian Kozlowski
“Sluggish News Reactions: A Combinatorial Approach for Synchronizing Stock Jumps,” with Nabil Bouamara, Kris Boudt, and Sébastien Laurent
St. Louis Fed Economist: Christopher J. Neely
“Private Information and Optimal Infant Industry Protection,” with Raymond Riezman and Yuzhe Zhang
St. Louis Fed Economist: B. Ravikumar
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Dec 9, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Moritz Lenel, Princeton University
Host: Yu-Ting Chiang

Dec 4, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Francesco Zanetti, Oxford University
Hosts: Ricardo Marto

Dec 3, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Francesco Furlanetto, Bank of Norway
Host: Michael McCracken

Dec 1, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Why Is Agricultural Productivity So Low in Poor Countries? The Case of India,” with Md Mahbubur Rahman
St. Louis Fed Economist: Oksana Leukhina
“An Information-Based Theory of Monopsony Power,” with Anton Cheremukhin
St. Louis Fed Economist: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
Host: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Nov 24, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Long-Run Inflation Expectations,” with Jonas D.M. Fisher and Sebastian Rast
Seminar Speaker: Leonardo Melosi, University of Warwick
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Nov 20, 2025, 12 p.m.
“International Diversification, Reallocation, and the Labor Share,” with Romain Ranciere and David Zeke
Seminar Speaker: Joel David, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Nov 19, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Markus Poschke, McGill University
Host: Alexander Bick

Nov 18, 2025, 12 p.m.
“How Did Government Bonds Become Safe?”
Seminar Speaker: Juan Antolin-Diaz, MIT
Host: Hannah Rubinton

Nov 12, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Lumpy Forecasts,” with Javier Turen
Seminar Speaker: Isaac Baley, Pompeu Fabra University
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Nov 5, 2025, 12 p.m.
“The Implications of Labor Market Heterogeneity for Unemployment Insurance Design,” with Kurt See
St. Louis Fed Economist: Serdar Birinci
“Optimal Asset Market Operations,” with Piotr Zoch
St. Louis Fed Economist: Yu-Ting Chiang
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Nov 4, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Returns to Specific Graduate Degrees: Estimates Using Texas Administrative Records,” with Zhengren Zhu
Seminar Speaker: Joseph Altonji, Yale University
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Oct 30, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Trade Risk and Food Security,” with Tasso Adamopoulos
St. Louis Fed Economist: Fernando Leibovici
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Oct 28, 2025, 12 p.m.
“How To Sell Public Debt in Uncertain Times,” with Daneil Neuhann and Guillermo Ordonez
Seminar Speaker: Harold L. Cole, University of Pennsylvania
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Oct 23, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Zhiyu Fi, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Mark Wright

Oct 22, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Oct 21, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Firm Premia and Match Effects in Pay vs. Amenities,” with Mette Rasmussen and Evan K. Rose
Seminar Speaker: Anders Humlum, University of Chicago
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Oct 15, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Elisa Giannone, CREi
Host: Hannah Rubinton

Oct 14, 2025, 12 p.m.
“On the Investment Network and Development,” with Lucia Casal
Seminar Speaker: Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Oct 8, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Jeremy Pearce, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Host: Hannah Rubinton

Oct 7, 2025, 12 p.m.
“The Geography of Innovative Firms,” with Craig A. Chikis and Benny Kleinman
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Marta Prato, Bocconi University
Host: Yu-Ting Chiang

Oct 6, 2025, 12 p.m.
“The Macroeconomic Effects of the Buy American Act,” with Miguel Acosta
Seminar Speaker: Lydia Cox, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Oct 2, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Insuring Labor Income Shocks: The Role of the Dynasty,” with A. Fagereng, L. Guiso, and M. Ring
Seminar Speaker: Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Oct 1, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Stephen Terry, University of Michigan
Host: Aakash Kalyani

Sep 30, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Tamon Asonuma, International Monetary Fund
Hosts: Mark Wright

Sep 29, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Economist: Ricardo Marto
St. Louis Fed Economist: Serdar Ozkan
Host: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Sep 25, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Moral Hazard and the Sustainability of Income-Driven Repayment Plans,” with Chao Fua and Xiaomeng Li
Seminar Speaker: Basit Zafar, University of Michigan
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Sep 23, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Harold Uhlig, University of Chicago
Host: Yu-Ting Chiang

Sep 17, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Public R&D Funding, Innovation, and Productivity,” with Daniel Xu
Seminar Speaker: Matthias Kehrig, Duke University
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Sep 11, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Intangible Capital, Firm Scope, and Growth,” with Janice Eberly, Andrea Eisfeldt, and Dimitris Papanikolaou
Seminar Speaker: Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University
Host: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Sep 9, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Jeremy Greenwood, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Ricard Marto

Aug 28, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Economist: William Dupor
St. Louis Fed Economist: Maximiliano Dvorkin
St. Louis Fed Economist: Guillaume Vandenbroucke
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Jul 16, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Monetary Policy for the Masses, with 37% Luck Included”
Seminar Speaker: James Bullard, Purdue University
Host: Carlos Garriga

Jul 15, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Disentangling Motivation and Study Productivity as Drivers of Human Capital Formation: Evidence from a Field Experiment and Structural Analysis”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Brent Hickman, Washington University in St. Louis
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Jul 9, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Brent Hickman, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: B. Ravikumar

Jun 10, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Chen Lian, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Yu-Ting Chiang

May 28, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Business Concentration around the World: 1900-2020,” with Mengdi Zhang and Kaspar Zimmermann
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Yueran Ma, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

May 21, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Have We Got News for You: Firm-Level Evidence on the Optimal Choice of Expected Capacity Utilization,” with Niklas Amberg and Richard Friberg, and “The Curious Surge of Productivity in U.S. Restaurants,” with Austan Goolsbe, Rebecca Goldgof, and Joe Tata
Seminar Speaker: Chad Syverson, University of Chicago
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

May 20, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Superstar Firms through the Generations,” with Yueran Ma, Haomin Qin, and Kaspar Zimmermann
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Ben Pugsley, University of Notre Dame
Host: Hannah Rubinton

May 15, 2025, 12 p.m.
“The Evolution of Unobserved Skill Returns in the U.S.: A New Approach Using Panel Data,” with Youngmin Park and Younsgki Shin
Seminar Speaker: Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

May 14, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Efficient Imperfect Competition”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Guido Menzio, New York University
Host: Victoria Gregory

May 13, 2025, 12 p.m.
“The Time Inconsistency of Welfare Assessments with Heterogeneous Agents,” with Eduardo Davila
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Andreas Schaab, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Yu-Ting Chiang

May 8, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Hours Worked and Lifetime Earnings Inequality,” with Adam Blandin and Richard Rogerson
St. Louis Fed Economist: Alexander Bick
“Credit, Productivity, and Stabilization Policy”
St. Louis Fed Economist: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
“Persistent or Transitory? How Earning Shock Misperception Leads to Household Financial Distress,” with Stefan Song
St. Louis Fed Economist: Juan Sanchez
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

May 7, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Firm Sales and the Firm Life Cycle”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Bettina Brueggemann, McMaster University
Host: Alexander Bick

May 6, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Saving and Labor Supply over the Life Cycle,“ with Margherita Borella, Johanna Torres Chain, and Fang Yang
Seminar Speaker: Mariacristina De Nardi, University of Minnesota
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

May 1, 2025, 12 p.m.
“The Value of de Minimis Imports,“ with Amit Khandelwal
Seminar Speaker: Pablo Fajgelbaum, UCLA
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Apr 29, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Japan: Sovereign Wealth Fund from Borrowed Money”
St. Louis Fed Economist: YiLi Chien
“Bootstrapping Out-of-Sample Predictability Tests with Real-Time Data,” with Silvia Goncalves and Yongxu Yao
St. Louis Fed Economist: Michael W. McCracken
“Shifting Risks and International Stock Portfolios”
St. Louis Fed Economist: Michael T. Owyang
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Apr 24, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Concentrating on Customers: Measuring Market Shares Across Firms and Space“
Seminar Speaker: Joseph Vavra, University of Chicago
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Apr 23, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Uniform Pricing and Capital Allocation”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Deniz Aydin, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Apr 22, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Worker Mobility and Labour Market Opportunities,” with Monica Costa Dias, Robert Joyce, Peter Spittal, and Xiaowei Xu
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Fabien Postel-Vinay, University College London
Host: Serdar Birinci

Apr 17, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Efficiency in Job-Ladder Models”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Toshihiko Mukoyama, Georgetown University
Host: Serdar Birinci

Apr 16, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Immigration and Productivity: Unpacking the Role of Spatial Sorting”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Julian Neira, University of Exeter
Host: Juan Sanchez

Apr 15, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Why Firms Lay Off Workers Instead of Cutting Wages: Evidence from Linked Survey-Administrative Data,” with Antoine Bertheau, Birthe Larsen, and Morten Bennedsen
Seminar Speaker: Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Apr 9, 2025, 12 p.m.
“The Macroeconomics of Data: Scale, Product Choice, and Pricing in the Information Age,” with Vladimir Asriyan
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Alexandre Kohlhas, University of Oxford
Host: Yu-Ting Chiang

Apr 8, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Beliefs, Aggregate Risk, and the U.S. Housing Boom”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Margaret Jacobson, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Host: Carlos Garriga

Apr 3, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Hyperbolic Discounting with Random Gratification,” with Facundo Piguillem
Seminar Speaker: Liyan Shi, Carnegie Mellon University
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Apr 2, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Structural Reforms in the Shadow of Debt Overhang: A Quantitative Perspective”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Kjetil Storesletten, University of Minnesota
Host: Alex Bick

Mar 26, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Stimulating the Industrial Revolution”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Nick Pretner, LAEF at UCSB
Host: Serdar Ozkan

Mar 25, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Optimal (Un)Conventional Monetary Policy,” with Andrey Alexandrov
Seminar Speaker: Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Mar 19, 2025, 12 p.m.
“China’s Overseas Lending in Global Finance Cycle”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Zhengyang Jiang, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Host: YiLi Chiang

Mar 13, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Real Monetary Policy,” with Joao Ritto, Tamon Takamura, and Yaz Terajima
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Victor Rios-Rull, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Ricardo Marto

Mar 12, 2025, 11:15 a.m.
“The Value of a Job”
St. Louis Fed Economist: Victoria Gregory
“Work from Home and Long-Distance Migration”
St. Louis Fed Economist: Hannah Rubinton
“Technology, Geopolitics, and Trade,” with Leo Lam
St. Louis Fed Economist: Ana Maria Santacreu
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Mar 6, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Optimal Differential Capital Taxation with Incomplete Markets”
Seminar Speaker: Wendy Morrison, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Mar 5, 2025, 11:30 a.m.
“Central Bank Swap Lines as Bilateral Sovereign Debt”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Francisco Roldan, International Monetary Fund
Host: Victoria Gregory

Mar 4, 2025, 12 p.m.
“The Labor Supply Curve Is Upward Sloping: The Labor Market Effects of Immigrant-Induced Demand Shocks,” with Sigurd Galaasen, Andreas Kostøl, and Jonathan Vogel
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Joan Monras, Pompeu Fabra University
Host: Serdar Birinci

Feb 27, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Taxation, Compliance, and Clandestine Activities”
St. Louis Fed Economist: Subhayu Bandyopadhyay
“New Technologies and Inequality,” with Tarek Hassan and Pascual Restrepo
St. Louis Fed Economist: Aakash Kalyani
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Feb 26, 2025, 12 p.m.
“The Equilibrium Effects of State-Mandated Minimum Staff-to-Child Ratios”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Martín Garcia-Vásquez, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Victoria Gregory

Feb 25, 2025, 12 p.m.
“The Puzzling Behavior of Spreads during Covid”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Loukas Karabarbounis, University of Minnesota
Host: Serdar Birinci

Feb 20, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Firm Dynamics and Earnings Risk”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Phillip Gruebener, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Victoria Gregory

Feb 11, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Buy Big or Buy Small? Procurement Policies, Firms’ Financing, and the Macroeconomy”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Josep Pijoan-Mas, CEMFI
Host: Serdar Birinci

Feb 4, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Is the Green Transition Inflationary?” with Julian di Giovanni and Keshav Dogra
Seminar Speaker: Marco Del Negro, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Jan 15, 2025, 12 p.m.
“Escaping Violent Death: Access to Credit and Female Mortality”
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Janis Skrastins, Washington University in St. Louis
Host: Carlos Garriga

Dec 12, 2024, 12 p.m.
“An ‘Orthodox’ Theory of Dual Labor Markets”
Seminar Speaker: Ayşegül Şahin, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Dec 4, 2024, 12 p.m.
“The Cost of Capital and Misallocation in the United States,” with Miguel Faria-e-Castro and Jeremy Majerovitz
St. Louis Fed Economists: Julian Kozlowski
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Dec 3, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Why Do Workers Dislike Inflation? Wage Erosion and Conflict Costs”
Seminar Speaker: Christina Patterson, University of Chicago
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Nov 21, 2024, 12 p.m.
“'Austrian' Capital Theory and World Trade”
Seminar Speaker: Pol Antrás, Harvard University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Nov 12, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Sara Moreira, Northwestern University
Host: Ana Maria Santacreu

Nov 7, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Do Deficits Cause Inflation? A High Frequency Narrative Approach,” with Stephan Hobler
Seminar Speaker: Jonathon Hazell, London School of Economics
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Oct 29, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Borrowing from Workers: Can Labor Market Power Mitigate Financial Frictions?”
Seminar Speaker: Yan Bai, University of Rochester
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Oct 23, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: David Donaldson, MIT
Host: Ana Maria Santacreu

Oct 17, 2024, 12 p.m.
“When Do Endogenous Portfolios Matter for HANK?” with Matthew Rognlie, Ludwig Straub, and Tomáš Ťapák
Seminar Speaker: Adrien Auclert, Stanford University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Oct 15, 2024, 12 p.m.
“The (Rapid?) Adoption of Generative AI,” with Adam Blandin and David Deming
St. Louis Fed Economist: Alexander Bick
“Labor Cost Pressures: Evidence from Earnings Calls,” with Aakash Kalyani
St. Louis Fed Economist: Serdar Ozkan
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Oct 10, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Welfare Costs of Credit Card Oligopoly,” with Juan M. Morelli
Seminar Speaker: Kyle Herkenhoff, University of Minnesota
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Oct 1, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Are Inflationary Shocks Regressive? A Feasible Set Approach,” with Felipe del Canto, Eric Qian, and Conor Walsh
Seminar Speaker: John Grigsby, Princeton University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Sep 24, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Monopsony Power and the Transmission of Monetary Policy,” with Bence Bardóczy, Chiara Maggi, and Sergio Salgado
Seminar Speaker: Gideon Bornstein, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Sep 19, 2024, 12 p.m.
“The Economic Effects of a Potential Armed Conflict Over Taiwan”
St. Louis Fed Economist: Chris Neely
“Navigating the Waves of Global Shipping: Drivers and Aggregate Implications,” with Jason Dunn
St. Louis Fed Economist: Fernando Leibovici “Intergenerational Persistence in Education,” with David Fuller
St. Louis Fed Economist: Guillaume Vandenbroucke
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Sep 18, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Parental Leave: Economic Incentives and Cultural Change”
Seminar Speaker: Raquel Fernandez, New York University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Sep 10, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Rent Guarantee Insurance”
Seminar Speaker: Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Columbia University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Sep 5, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Aggregation, Liquidity, and Asset Prices with Incomplete Markets,” with Benjamin Hébert and Pablo Kurlat
Seminar Speaker: Sebastian Di Tella, Stanford University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Aug 21, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Dirk Krueger, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Alexander Bick

Aug 20, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Derek Neal, University of Chicago
Host: Oksana Leukhina

Jun 4, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Moritz Kuhn, University of Mannheim
Host: Alexander Bick

May 23, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Uniform Rate Setting and the Deposit Channel,” with Erik Stafford
Seminar Speaker: Juliane Begenau, Stanford University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

May 21, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Speaker: Gregor Jarosch, Duke University
Host: Serdar Birinci

May 15, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Monetary Policy Operations: Theory, Evidence, and Tools for Quantitative Analysis,” with Gastón Navarro
Seminar Speaker: Ricardo Lagos, New York University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

May 14, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Andreas Mueller, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Alexander Bick

May 9, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Optimal Asset Market Policies”
St. Louis Fed Economist: Yu-Ting Chiang
“The Geography of Wealth: Shocks, Mobility, and Precautionary Savings,” with Brian Greaney
St. Louis Fed Economist: Maximiliano Dvorkin
“Dissecting the Great Retirement Boom,” with Serdar Birinci and Kurt See
St. Louis Fed Economist: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
Host: Julian Kozlowski

May 8, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Inflation Pre and Post Pandemic: Insights from Firm Level Data,” with Luca Gagliardone, Simone Lenzu, and Joris Tielens
Seminar Speaker: Mark Gertler, New York University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

May 7, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Venky Venkateswaran, New York University
Host: Ana Maria Santacreu

May 1, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Pau Roldan-Blanco, Bank of Spain
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Apr 30, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Financial Conditions Targeting,” with Ricardo Caballero and Tomas Caravello
Seminar Speaker: Alp Simsek, Yale University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Apr 25, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Optimal Monetary Policy with Redistribution”
Seminar Speaker: Jennifer La'O, Columbia University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Apr 23, 2024, 12 p.m.
“A Monetary Measurement of Love on Eurozone”
St. Louis Fed Economist: YiLi Chien
“A National Banking Conditions Index for the U.S.,” with Miguel Faria-e-Castro and Kevin L. Kliesen
St. Louis Fed Economist: Michael McCracken
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Apr 17, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Edouard Schaal, CREI
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Apr 16, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Financial Frictions: Micro vs. Macro Volatility”
Seminar Speaker: Morten Ravn, University College London
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Apr 11, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Fiscal Stimulus and Durable Goods Purchases: Evidence from Auto Sales and Pandemic Household Transfers”
Seminar Speaker: Eric Zwick, University of Chicago
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Apr 10, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Carolina Villegas-Sanchez, ESADE
Host: Ricardo Marto

Apr 9, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Jacob Moscona, Harvard University and MIT
Host: Alexander Bick

Apr 4, 2024, 12:15 p.m.
“Firm Export Dynamics in Interdependent Markets,” with Alonso Alfaro-Ureña, Sebastián Fanelli, and Eduardo Morales
Seminar Speaker: Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, Harvard University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Mar 27, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Amy Handlan, Brown University
Host: Alexander Bick

Mar 26, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Peter Klenow, Stanford University
Host: Alexander Bick

Mar 21, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Zachary Stangebye, University of Notre Dame
Host: Mark Wright

Mar 14, 2024, 12 p.m.
“The Adoption of Non-rival Inputs and Firm Scope”
St. Louis Fed Economist: Hannah Rubinton
“Delinquency, Forbearance, and Ex-Ante Heterogeneity,” with Kartik Athreya and Jose Mustre-del-Rio
St. Louis Fed Economist Juan Sánchez
“The Fed’s Forecast Advantage: News or Conditioning?”
Michael Owyang
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Mar 12, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Refinancing Frictions, Mortgage Pricing and Redistribution”
Seminar Speaker: David Berger, Duke University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Mar 5, 2024, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Emma Harrington, University of Virginia
Host: Alexander Bick

Feb 29, 2024, 12 p.m.
“The Anatomy of Monthly Earnings Volatility: Evidence From Paycheck Microdata”
Seminar Speaker: Peter Ganong, University of Chicago
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Feb 23, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Wage Inequality and the Spatial Expansion of Firms”
Seminar Speaker: Benny Kleinman, University of Chicago
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Feb 9, 2024, 12 p.m.
“Weathering the Storm: Supply Chains and Climate Risk,” with Juanma Castro-Vincenzi, Gaurav Khanna, and Nicolas Morales
Seminar Speaker: Nitya Pandalai-Nayar, University of Texas at Austin
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Feb 1, 2024, 12 p.m.
“A Model of Credit, Money, Interest, and Prices,” with Yuliy Sannikov
Seminar Speaker: Saki Bigio, UCLA, Feb 1
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Feb 22, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Jeremy Majerovitz, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Feb 23, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Harald Uhlig, University of Chicago
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Feb 28, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Marta Prato, Yale University
Host: Yu-Ting Chiang

Mar 1, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Aarti Singh, University of Sydney
Host: Jim Bullard

March 2, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Mark Bils, University of Rochester
Host: Julian Koslowski

Mar 8, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: 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

Mar 9, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Laura Gati, European Central Bank
Host: Juan Sanchez

Mar 14, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Juan Martin Morelli, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro

Mar 16, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Johannes Wieland, University of California, San Diego
Title: "Micro MPCs and Macro Counterfactuals: The Case of the 2008 Rebates," with Jacob Orchard and Valerie A. Ramey
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Mar 28, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Ina Simonovska, University of California, Davis
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Mar 29, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Baris Kaymak, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Host: Serdar Oskan

Apr 4, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Leo Kaas, Goethe University Frankfurt
Host: Serdar Birinci

Apr 5, 2023, 12 p.m.
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 6, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Yan Bai, University of Rochester
Host: B. Ravikumar

Apr 11, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Yongseok Shin, Washington University in St. Louis
Title: "Is Software Eating the World?"
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Apr 12, 2023, 12 p.m.
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 13, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Alisdair McKay, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Title: "Optimal Policy Rules in HANK," with Christian K. Wolf
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Apr 18, 2023, 12 p.m.
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 19, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Ana Figueiredo, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro

Apr 25, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Ben Griffy, University at Albany, SUNY
Host: Victoria Gregory

Apr 27, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Boragan Aruoba, University of Maryland
Title: "Real Rigidities, Firm Dynamics, and Monetary Non-Neutrality: Role of Demand Shocks"
Host: Julian Kozlowski

May 2, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University
Title: “The Job Ladder: Inflation vs. Reallocation,” with Fabien Postel-Vinay
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

May 3, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Roman Shi, Toronto Metropolitan University
Host: Hannah Rubinton

May 9, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Diego Daruich, University of California
Host: Julian Kozlowski

May 11, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Eduardo Davila, Yale University
Title: "Welfare Assessments with Heterogeneous Individuals," with Andreas Schaab
Host: Julian Koslowski

May 16, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Allesandro Dovis, University of Pennsylvania
Title: “Unique Implementation with Market-Based Interventions,” with Rishabh Kirpalani
Host: Julian Kozlowski

May 17, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Gorkem Bostanci, University of British Columbia
Title: "Changing Jobs to Fight Inflation: Labor Market Reactions to Inflationary Shocks"
Host: Serdar Birinci

May 18, 2023, 12 p.m.
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 23, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Christopher Herrington, Virginia Commonwealth University
Title: "Racial Gaps in Student Loan Repayment and Default: A Lifecycle Approach"
Host: Alexander Bick

May 25, 2023, 12 p.m.
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

Jul 18, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Jonathan Payne, Princeton University
Host: Fernando Martin

Jul 24, 2023, 12 p.m.
Speaker: James Graham, University of Sydney
Title: "Consumption Behavior Across the Distribution of Liquid Assets," with Robert A. McDowall
Host: Victoria Gregory

Aug 8, 2023, 12 p.m.
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

Aug 9, 2023, 12 p.m.
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 21, 2023, 12 p.m.
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Zhen Huo, Yale University
Title: "Bias and Sensitivity under Ambiguity"
Host: Fernando Martin

Sep 5, 2023, 12 p.m.
Seminar
Speaker: David Baqaee, UCLA
Title: "Measuring Welfare by Matching Households Across Time"
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Sep 7, 2023, 12 p.m.
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Yasin Kursat Onder, Ghent University
Host: Serdar Oskan

Sep 12, 2023, 12 p.m.
Seminar
Speaker: Yueran Ma, University of Chicago
Title: "Superstar Firms through the Generations," with Benjamin Pugsley and Kaspar Zimmermann
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Sep 18, 2023, 12 p.m.
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Thomas Drechsel, University of Maryland
Host: Miguel Faria-e-Castro

Sep 19, 2023, 12 p.m.
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 21, 2023, 12 p.m.
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Sergio Ocampo, Western University
Host: Serdar Oskan

Sep 26, 2023, 12 p.m.
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Nicolas Caramp, UC Davis
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Oct 4, 2023, 12 p.m.
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Brian Greaney, University of Washington
Host: Maximiliano Dvorkin

Oct 5, 2023, 12 p.m.
Seminar
Speaker: Ludwig Straub, Harvard University
Title: "Disaggregated Economic Accounts," with Asger Andersen, Kilian Huber, Niels Johannesen, and Emil Toft Vestergaard

Oct 16, 2023, 12 p.m.
Seminar
Speaker: Martin Uribe, Columbia University
Title: "Heterogeneous Downward Nominal Wage Rigidity: Foundations of Phillips's Phillips Curve," with Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Oct 24, 2023, 12 p.m.
Seminar
Speaker: Vincent Sterk, University College London
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Oct 26, 2023, 12 p.m.
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Diego Dariuch, USC Marshall
Title: "An Equilibrium Analysis of the Effects of Neighborhood-Based Interventions on Children"
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Oct 30, 2023, 12 p.m.
Seminar
Speaker: Janice Eberly, Northwestern University
Title: "Macro Shocks and Housing Markets," with Gene Amromin
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Nov 6, 2023, 12 p.m.
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Sadhika Bagga, Columbia University
Host: Juan Sanchez

Nov 7, 2023, 12 p.m.
Seminar
Speaker: Luigi Bocola, Stanford University
Title: "Measuring Jerome's Reputation," with Alessandro Dovis, Kasper Jorgenson and Rishab Kirpalani
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Nov 14, 2023, 12 p.m.
Seminar
Speaker: Richard Rogerson, Princeton University
Title: "Wage and Earnings Inequality Between and Within Occupations: The Role of the Labor Supply," with Andrés Erosa, Luisa Fuster, and Gueorgui Kambourov
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Nov 15, 2023, 12 p.m.
Brown Bag Talk
Speaker: Chris Tonetti, Stanford University
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Nov 30, 2023, 12 p.m.
Seminar
Speaker: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Harvard University
Title: "Tax Policy and Investment in a Global Economy," with Matthew Smith, Owen Zidar, and Eric Zwick
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Dec 7, 2023, 12 p.m.
Seminar
Speaker: Christian Wolf, MIT
Title: “Can Deficits Finance Themselves?” with George-Marios Angeletos and Chen Lian
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Feb 10, 2022, 12 p.m.
Title: Learning About the Long Run
Speaker: Emi Nakamura, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Mar 3, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Kurt Mitman, Institute for International Economic Studies
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Mar 8, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Manuel Garcia-Santana, UPF and Princeton University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Mar 15, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Espen Henriksen, BI Norwegian School of Business
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Mar 29, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Harold Cole, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Mar 31, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Mark Huggett, Georgetown University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria
Title: "Optimal Income Taxation: An Urban Economics Perspective"

Apr 5, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Ned Prescott, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Apr 6, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Vanessa Kunzmann, University of Regensburg
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Apr 12, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Eiji Goto, UMSL
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Apr 21, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Juan Pablo Nicolini, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Apr 28, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Mike Waugh, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

May 3, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Frederico Huneeus, Central Bank of Chile
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

May 10, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Javier Cravino, University of Michigan
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

May 12, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Virgiliu Midrigan, New York University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

May 17, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Ben Lester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

May 26, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Laura Alfaro, Harvard Business School
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Aug 25, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Rosemary Kaiser, Rutgers University
Host: Juan Sánchez

Aug 30, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Xian Jiang, University of California, Davis
Host: Juan Sánchez

Aug 31, 2022, 12 p.m.
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

Sep 6, 2022,12 p.m.
Speaker: Andy Neumeyer, Universidad Torcuato di Tella
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Sep 7, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Ana Maria Santacreu, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "Dynamic Gains from Trade Agreements with Intellectual Property Provisions"
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Sep 20, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Ben Lester, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
Title: The Heterogeneous Impact of Referrals on Labor Market Outcomes
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Sep 21, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Juan Rubio-Ramírez, Emory University
Host: Carlos Garriga

Sep 27, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Filipe Saffie, University of Virginia
Title: Pricing Under Distress
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Sep 28, 2022, 12 p.m.
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

Sep 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

Oct 5, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Fernando Martin, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "Fiscal Dominance"
Speaker: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "The Dual Beveridge Curve"
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Oct 11, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Minjie Deng, Simon Fraser University
Host: Juan Sánchez

Oct 19, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Bill Dupor, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Title: "Macroeconomics and the 'Local Effect' Regression"
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Oct 25, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Ezra Oberfield, Princeton University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Oct 27, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Nov 1, 2022, 12 p.m.
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

Nov 2, 2022, 12:15 p.m.
Speaker: Basil Williams, New York University
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Nov 3, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Sebastian Dyrda, University of Toronto
Title: "A Macroeconomic Perspective on Taxing Multinational Enterprises"
Host: Fernando Martin

Nov 9, 2022, 12 p.m.
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

Nov 15, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Paolo Martellini, University of Wisconsin
Title: "A Theory of Business Transfers," with Anmol Bhandari and Ellen McGrattan
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Nov 29, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Hyunju Lee, Toronto Metropolitan University
Host: Serdar Birinci

Nov 30, 2022, 12 p.m.
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

Dec 6, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: Gianluca Violante, Princeton University
Title: "Some Like It Hot: Inclusive Monetary Policy under Okun’s Hypothesis," with Felipe Alves
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Dec 8, 2022, 12 p.m.
Speaker: George Alessandria, University of Rochester
Host: Paulina Restrepo-Echavarria

Dec 15, 2022, 12 p.m.
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