Homer Jones Memorial Lecture Series

The Homer Jones Memorial Lecture honors a man who exemplified the highest qualities of leadership in economics and public policy. As research director, and later senior vice president at the St. Louis Fed, Homer Jones (1906-1986) played a major role in developing the Bank as a leader in monetary research and statistics.

Sponsors of the annual Lecture series also include the Gateway Chapter of the National Association for Business Economics, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, St. Louis University, University of Missouri—St. Louis and Washington University.

Previous Speakers

Year	Speaker (Affiliation at the time)	Host Institution
2009	Raghuram G. Rajan Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business "The Financial Crisis and Cycle-Proof Regulation" Video and News Article	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
2006	Jerry L. Jordan Adjunct Scholar, Cato Institute and Former President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland "Money and Monetary Policy for the 21st Century" (PDF 167K)	University of Missouri—St. Louis
2005	Ben Bernanke Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System "The Global Saving Glut and the U.S. Current Account Deficit"	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
2004	Jeremy J. Siegel Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania "Can We Measure 'Expected' Inflation?"	Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
2003	Douglass C. North Spencer T. Olin Professor in Arts and Sciences at Washington University "Institutions and Economic Performances"	University of Missouri—St. Louis
2002	Michael Mussa Institute for International Economics "Fun at the Fund: International Economic Policy Making During a Decade of Financial Crises"	St. Louis University
2001	Laurence H. Meyer Former Governor Federal Reserve Board "Does Money Matter?" (PDF 166K)	Washington University
2000	Frederic S. Mishkin Columbia University "What Should Central Banks Do?" (PDF 101K)	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
1999	Bennett T. McCallum Carnegie Mellon University "Recent Developments in the Analysis of Monetary Policy Rules" (PDF 238K)	University of Missouri—St. Louis
1998	John B. Taylor Stanford University "Monetary Policy and the Long Boom" (PDF 216K)	Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
1997	Rudi Dornbusch Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Inflation and Growth"	Saint Louis University
1995	Lawrence Lindsey Former Governor Federal Reserve Board "The Two-Handed Role of Money" (PDF 33K)	Washington University
1994	Helmut Schlesinger Former President Deutsche Bundesbank "On the Way to a New Monetary Union: The European Monetary Union" (PDF 574K)	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
1993	Lee Hoskins Former President Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland	University of Missouri—St. Louis
1992	Anna Schwartz National Bureau of Economic Research "The Misuse of the Fed's Discount Window" (PDF 1.0M)	Saint Louis University
1991	Allan H. Meltzer Carnegie Mellon University "U.S. Policy in the Bretton Woods Era" (PDF 3.8M)	Washington University
1990	David Laidler University of Western Ontario "The Legacy of the Monetarist Controversy" (PDF 1.4M)	Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
1989	H. Robert Heller Former Governor Federal Reserve Board "Money and the International Monetary System" (PDF 497K)	University of Missouri—St. Louis
1988	William G. Dewald U.S. Department of State "Monetarism Is Dead; Long Live the Quantity Theory" (PDF 4.9M)	Saint Louis University
1987	Beryl W. Sprinkel Council of Economic Advisers "Confronting Monetary Policy Dilemmas: The Legacy of Homer Jones" (PDF 333K)	Washington University

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