Macroeconomics of Inequality Conference
Joint Conference between the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and the
Department of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis
Organized by Francisco Buera, Julian Koslowski, and Yongseok Shin
REGISTRATION
Registration closed on November 9, 2022.
November 17, 2022
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Balbach Room, 2nd Floor
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Lunch, Research Library, 2nd Floor
1:30 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Jesus Fernandez-Villaverde, University of Pennsylvania
Spooky Boundaries at a Distance: Exploring Transversality and Stability with Deep Learning
(with Mahdi Ebrahimi Kahou, Sebastián Gómez-Cardona, Jesse Perla, and Jan Rosa)
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
BREAK
3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Federico Kochen, Columbia University
Finance Over the Life Cycle of Firms
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
BREAK
4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Gustavo Ventura, Arizona State University
Rethinking the Welfare State
(with Nezih Guner and Remzi Kaygusuz)
5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Reception, Economy Museum
7:15 p.m.
Dinner (by invitation), Acero, Maplewood
November 18, 2022
Department of Economics at Washington University in St. Louis
Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 301
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Breakfast, Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 301
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Christian Moser, Columbia University
Meritocracy
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
BREAK
9:45 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.
Huiyu Li, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Entry Costs Rise with Growth
(with Peter J. Klenow)
10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.
BREAK
11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Fabrizio Perri, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
More Unequal We Stand? Inequality in the United States from the Great Recession to the COVID Pandemic
(with Jonathan Heathcote, Giovanni L. Violante, and Lichen Zhang)
12:00 p.m.
Lunch, Harry and Susan Seigle Hall, room 109
FEDERAL BANK OF ST. LOUIS SECURITY PROCEDURES
Entering the Building
All visitors must enter the Bank through the main entrance, located on the pedestrian plaza at Broadway and Locust Street. You must have a driver’s license or other government-issued picture ID to enter the building. Everyone who enters the building will be required to walk through metal detectors. All purses, keys, cell phones and other hand-held items will be sent through X-ray equipment. You may wish to arrive 20 minutes before the conference start time to give yourself time to go through the Bank's screening process.
Mask and Vaccination Requirements
- Visitors must attest that their vaccinations are fully up to date and show proof of vaccination upon entry.
- Proof can be in the form of an actual vaccination card or a digital version (e.g., picture of the card).
- An individual will be considered “fully up to date,” which includes a booster shot, as defined by applicable public health guidance; https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/stay-up-to-date.html. If you do not have proof of a booster shot, you may enter the building but must wear a mask.
- Guests may choose to wear a mask at any time. Note that others in the Bank, including those who are vaccinated, may be wearing a mask for a variety of personal reasons and are welcome to do so.
We look forward to lively and informative discussion at the conference and hope that you will be able to join us.
If you have any questions, please address them to research.event.services@stls.frb.org.
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS at WUSTL INFORMATION