Economics Seminar Series

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What: The St. Louis Fed’s Research division sponsors a seminar series on a wide variety of topics presented by economists from across the country and around the world.

When: Weekly.

Intended audience: Economists and students of economics.

For questions: Send questions and suggestions to Research.Seminar@stls.frb.org.


2025 Seminars

All times shown are U.S. Central

Dec 10, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Brown University
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

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

Dec 4, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Pascual Restrepo, Yale University
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

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

Nov 18, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Joel David, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Nov 5, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Diego Kaenzig, Northwestern University
Host: Victoria Gregory

Nov 4, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Joseph Altonji, Yale University
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Oct 28, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Harold L. Cole, University of Pennsylvania
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Oct 21, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Anders Humlum, University of Chicago
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Oct 16, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University
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.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota
Host: Julian Kozlowski

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.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Marta Prato, Bocconi University
Host: Yu-Ting Chiang

Oct 6, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Lydia Cox, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Oct 2, 2025, 12 p.m.
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 25, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Basit Zafar, University of Michigan
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Sep 17, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Matthias Kehrig, Duke University
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Sep 11, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Nicolas Crouzet, Northwestern University
Host: Hannah Rubinton

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

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

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