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 11, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Ellen McGrattan, University of Minnesota
Host: Julian Kozlowski

Dec 10, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: 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

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

Nov 18, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: 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 21, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Anders Humlum, University of Chicago
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Oct 16, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Julieta Caunedo, Cornell University
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Oct 7, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Marta Prato, Bocconi University
Host: Yu-Ting Chiang

Oct 6, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Lydia Cox, University of Wisconsin–Madison
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Oct 2, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: 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.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Basit Zafar, University of Michigan
Hosts: Hannah Rubinton and Victoria Gregory

Sep 17, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: 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.
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.
Seminar Speaker: Chad Syverson, University of Chicago
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

May 15, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

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

May 13, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Andreas Schaab, University of California, Berkeley
Host: Yu-Ting Chiang

May 8, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Economist: Alexander Bick
St. Louis Fed Economist: Miguel Faria-e-Castro
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.
Seminar Speaker: Mariacristina De Nardi, University of Minnesota
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

May 1, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Pablo Fajgelbaum, UCLA
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Apr 24, 2025, 12 p.m.
Seminar Speaker: Joseph Vavra, University of Chicago
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Apr 22, 2025, 12 p.m.
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

April 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.
Seminar Speaker: Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Apr 9, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Alexandre Kohlhas, University of Oxford
Host: Yu-Ting Chiang

Apr 8, 2025, 12 p.m.
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.
Seminar Speaker: Markus Brunnermeier, Princeton University
Hosts: Victoria Gregory and Hannah Rubinton

Mar 19, 2025, 12 p.m.
St. Louis Fed Visitor: Zhengyang Jiang, Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Host: YiLi Chiang

Mar 13, 2025, 12 p.m.
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.
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

Past Seminars