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Seminar Series

The Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis is sponsoring a Seminar Series on a wide variety of economic topics. Economists from across the country and around the world are invited to participate.

Unless otherwise noted, seminars will be held in the Research Conference Room, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, One Federal Reserve Bank Plaza, at the corner of Broadway and Locust Street, St. Louis, MO. Seminars held at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis are open to the public. If you wish to attend, you must call Sandra Butler at (314) 444-8591 at least 24 hours in advance. All attendees are required to go though a security screening and will be asked to show a picture ID.

Questions or suggestions should be directed to Alejandro Badel (Alejandro.Badel@stls.frb.org), Carlos Garriga (Carlos.Garriga@stls.frb.org), or Rajdeep Sengupta (Rajdeep.Sengupta@stls.frb.org).

Fall 2009 Seminar Series

Thursday, September 10, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Geni Dechter, University of Rochester
"After Motherhood: Effects of Maternity Leave and Effort Reallocation on Earnings"
Host: Rubén Hernández-Murillo

**Friday, September 18, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Alvin Murphy, Washington University
"A Dynamic Model of Housing Supply"
Host: Alejandro Badel

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Andrea Tambalotti, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
"Investment Shocks and the Relative Price of Investment"
Host: Riccardo DiCecio

**Monday, September 28, 2009 — 12:00 PM
Kelly Bishop, Washington University
"Simple, Consistent Estimation of the Marginal Willingness to Pay Function: Recovering Rosen's Second Stage Without Instrumental Variable"
Host: Alejandro Badel

***Wednesday, October 7, 2009 — 4:00 PM
Alex Monge, Penn State

**Thursday, October 8, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Francois Ortalo-Magne, University of Wisconsin
Host: Alejandro Badel

***Wednesday, October 21, 2009 — 4:00 PM
Erzo Luttmer, University of Minnesota

*Thursday, October 22, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Emily Blanchard, University of Virginia
"Trade, Education, and the Shrinking Middle Class"
Host: Silvio Contessi

**Friday, October 30, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Dmytro Hryshko, University of Alberta
"RIP to HIP: The Data Reject Heterogeneous Labor Income Profiles"
Host: Alejandro Badel

***Wednesday, November 4, 2009 — 4:00 PM
Mark Aguiar, University of Rochester

**Thursday, November 5, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Arvind Panagariya, Columbia University
"Within and Across Product Specialization Revisited"
Host: Subhayu Bandopadhyay

***Tuesday, November 10, 2009 — 4:15 PM
Michele Tertilt, Stanford University

***Wednesday, November 11, 2009 — 4:00 PM
Rui Castro, Université de Montréal

Thursday, November 12, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Price Fishback, University of Arizona
"The Influence of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation on Housing Markets During the 1930's"
Host: Dave Wheelock

*Wednesday, November 18, 2009 — 4:00 PM
Giuseppe Moscarini, Yale University
"Non-Stationary Search Equilibrium"

**Thursday, November 19, 2009 — 12:00 PM
Burhan Kuruscu, University of Texas
"Taxation of Human Capital and Cross-Country Trends in Wage Inequality" Host: Alejandro Badel

***Wednesday, December 2, 2009 — 4:00 PM
Hubert Kempf, Banque de France
Host: Costas Azariadis

**Thursday, December 3, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Glenn Loury, Brown University
Host: Alejandro Badel

***Wednesday, December 9, 2009 — 4:00 PM
Aubhik Khan, Ohio State University

**Friday, December 11, 2009 — 2:00 PM
Mark Huggett, Georgetown University
Host: Alejandro Badel

* Joint with the Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis. These seminars will take place at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

** Applied Micro Series.

*** Joint with the Department of Economics, Washington University in St. Louis. These seminars will take place at Washington University in St. Louis. Please visit http://economics.wustl.edu/index_seminars.php for further information.

Fall 2009 Schedule (PDF)

Spring 2009 Schedule: PDF | HTML (HTML includes links to select papers)

Past Seminars (PDF)

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