• September 9-10, 2010
• Conference on Household Heterogeneity and Household Finance  (Conferences)
• Hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the Deutsche Bundesbank, this conference will provide a forum of discussion on the design and use of individual household financial data in economic modeling.
• October 14-15, 2010
• Conference on Countercyclical Capital Requirements  (Conferences)

Upcoming Conferences

• September 9-10, 2010
• Conference on Household Heterogeneity and Household Finance
• Hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the Deutsche Bundesbank, this conference will provide a forum of discussion on the design and use of individual household financial data in economic modeling.
• October 14-15, 2010
• Conference on Countercyclical Capital Requirements

Past Conferences

• September 01, 2010
• Conference for Data Users of the 2007 Economic Census

• This conference is for users of data from the 2007 Economic Census. The material covered will be useful for both new and experienced users of census data.

• November 06, 2009
• Quantifying Systemic Risk: CALL FOR PAPERS
• The goal of this conference is to bring together academics, policymakers, and market participants to make a constructive contribution to the ongoing national debate on the future of the financial system.
• October 15, 2009
• Models and Policies for Economies with Credit and Financial Instability
• Our conference program this year focuses on the challenge of extending the models we use to provide policy advice so that they incorporate a richer structure for credit and account for financial instability.
• October 08, 2009
• Conference on Automotive Communities and Workforce Adjustment
• This conference is designed to assist federal, state, and local policymakers by bringing forward an independent, research-based perspective and program and policy ideas for adapting the economies of auto-impacted communities. The a focus at this first forum will be on workers.
• September 11, 2009
• Consumer Protection in Financial Product Markets
• This conference will provide a forum for discussing the regulation of consumer financial products and proposals for reform. Legal experts, academics, and government officials will present research, practitioner experiences, and the current state of the law. Interactive panel discussions will provide a forum for identifying useful practices, potential inefficiencies, and innovative ideas to shape the rapidly evolving realm of consumer financial protection policy.
• November 14-15, 2008
• JMCB Conference: Liquidity in Frictional Markets
• April 17, 2008
• Identifying and Resolving Financial Crises
• This conference provided substantial opportunities for debate and exchange on the subjects of financial crises and crisis intervention.
• April 3-4, 2008
• The Economics of Geography: Cities, Growth, and Economic Development
• The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland hosted a conference on April 3-4, 2008, dedicated to issues of critical importance to our local economies—the role of business-tax incentives; education, city growth, and the adoption of advanced technology; housing in urban markets; the impact of large, mixed-use projects; and more.
• October 26, 2007
• Payday and Predatory Lending Seminar
• This research seminar featured two papers on payday lending and two papers on predatory lending. Presenters included Paige Skiba (Vanderbilt), Adair Morse (University of Chicago), Philip Bond (Wharton), and Anthony Pennington-Cross (Marquette).
• October 12-13, 2007
• Methods and Applications for Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models
• August 6-17, 2007
• 2007 Money, Banking, Payments, and Finance Conference
• June 6-7, 2007
• Monetary Strategy: Old Issues and New Challenges
• May 24?25, 2007
• Conference on Price Measurement for Monetary Policy
• Cosponsored by the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas and Cleveland
• May 18-19, 2007
• Macroeconomics across Time and Space
• November 16-17, 2006
• Universities, Innovation, and Economic Growth
• November 8-9, 2006
• System Committee on Business and Financial Conditions
• September 29, 2006
• Banking and Commerce: The Next Steps
• September 8-9, 2006
• Dynamic Models Useful for Policy Making
• Cosponsored by the Bank of Canada and the Swiss National Bank
• August 11, 2006
• Conference in Honor of Randall Wright
• April 27-29, 2007
• Midwest Macro Meetings 2007
• November 28-29, 2006
• System Committee on Business and Financial Conditions
• November 17-18, 2005
• Conference on Innovation in Education
• November 18-19, 2004
• Conference on Education and Economic Development
• October 14-16, 2004
• International Macroeconomics Conference
• September 23-24, 2004
• Dynamic Models and Monetary Policymaking
• September 10-11, 2004
• Empirical Methods and Application for Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models
• November 19-23, 2003
• Low-Inflation Economies
• September 25-27, 2003
• Trade, Capital Flows, and Aggregate Dynamics
• August 25, 2003
• Term Structure and Economic Activity
• July 10-11, 2003
• Dynamic Models for Policy Analysis
• May 21-23, 2003
• Banking Consolidation and Competition
• April 12-13, 2003
• Bruce D. Smith Memorial Conference
• July 15-17, 2002
• Money and Fiscal Policy
• February 1, 2002
• On the Law and Economics of Payments Systems
• October 24-26, 2001
• The Implications of Declining Treasury Debt
• August 13-17, 2001
• Conference on Monetary Economics
• August 6-9, 2001
• Conference on Money and Payments
• May 20-22, 2001
• The Origins and Evolution of Central Banking
• February 2-3, 2001
• Learning and Model Misspecification
• December 5, 2000
• Financial Fragility
• September 8, 2000
• Controlling GSE Subsidies
• June 1-3, 2000
• Global Monetary Integration
• May 19, 2000
• Regulation in Housing Finance
• April 7-8, 2000
• Central Banking and Payments
• September 24-25, 1999
• Rogerson-Wright NBER Small Group Conference
• October 28-29, 1999
• What Should Central Banks Do?

Past Seminars

• August 20, 2010 | 11 a.m.
• Todd Clark, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
• Real-time Density Forecasts from BVAR’s with Stochastic Volatility
• July 22, 2010
• Peter Rupert (University of California at Santa Barbara)
• Grandparenting
• July 20, 2010
• Guillaume Rocheteau
• Liquidity and Asset Price Dynamics (coauthored by Randall Wright)
• 05.20.10 | 10:30-12:00
• Roberto Chang, Rutgers University
• On the Sources of Aggregate Fluctuations in Emerging Economies
• 05.04.10 | 11-12:30
• Eugene White, Rutgers University  (PDF)
• Lessons from the Great American Real Estate Boom and Bust of the 1920s
• January 12, 2010
• Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau (Tepper-CMU)
• The Cyclical Volatility of Labor Markets under Frictional Financial Markets
• January 06, 2010
• Viral Acharya (NYU)
• Measuring Systemic Risk
• 12.02.09 | 12:00-1:30
• Ellen McGrattan (Minneapolis Fed)
• Transition to FDI Openness
• 12.01.09 | 11:00-12:30
• Jesper Linde (Federal Reserve Board)
• Is There a Fiscal Free Lunch in a Liquidity Trap?
• 11.30.09 | 10:30-12:00
• Andrea Pescatori (Cleveland Fed)
• The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland’s DSGE Macro Model: Structure and Performance
• November 13, 2009
• Peter Ritchken, Case Western Reserve University
• On Correlation and Default Clustering in Credit Markets
• October 21, 2009
• Eric Young, University of Virginia
• Constrained Efficiency with Idiosyncratic Shocks and Elastic Labor Supply
• October 20, 2009
• Joe Haslag, University of Missouri
• Production, Hidden Action, and the Payment System
• 4.14.2009 | 12-1 | Rm 943
• Charles T. Carlstrom, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
• Legacy Assets and TALF: Price Discovery and Adverse Selection
• 04.08.09 | 12 - 1 | 943
• Charles T. Carlstrom, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
• Housing Prices, Monetary Policy and the Role of Credit Frictions
• 03.25.09 | 11-12:30
• Shigeru Fujita, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Worker Flows and Job Flows: A Quantitative Investigation
• 3.24.09 | 12-1:30
• Michele Tertilt, Stanford University
• TDA
• 3.19.09 | 2-3:30
• Orgul Demet Ozturk, University of South Carolina  (PDF)
• Good Jobs, Bad Jobs, and Welfare Independence
• 12.18.08 | 11-12:30
• Albert J. Sumell, Youngstown state University
• The Determinants of Foreclosed Property Values: Evidence from Inner City Cleveland
• 12.15.08 | 11-12:30
• Christa Bouwman, Case Western Reserve University  (PDF)
• Financial Crises and Bank Liquidity Creation
• 12.11.08 :: 12:30-1:30
• Qian Liu, Queens University
• The Hot Potato Effect of Inflation (joint with Randy Wright)
• 11.12.08 | 2-3:30
• Peter Rupert, UC Santa Barbara
• Housing and the Labor Market: Time to Move and Aggregate Unemployment
• 11.10.2008
• Francisca Richter, FRB Cleveland  (PDF)
• An Analysis of Foreclosure Rate Differentials in Soft Markets
• October 15, 2008
• Randy Wright, University of Pennsylvania
• Uniqueness of Monetary Steady State Equilibrium
• October 14, 2008
• Mei Dong, Simon Fraser University  (PDF)
• Money and Costly Credit
• June 04, 2008
• Gabriele Camera, University of Iowa
• May 21, 2008
• Bruce Weinberg, Ohio State University
• Social Interactions with Endogenous Associations
• May 07, 2008
• Marianna Kudlyak, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond  (PDF)
• The Cyclicality of the User Cost of Labor with Search and Matching
• 05.01.08 | 2:00-3:00 p.m.
• Rafael Silveira, University of Pennsylvania
• The Venture Capital Cycle (joint with Randy Wright)
• April 30, 2008
• Ahmet Akyol, York University (visiting Richmond Fed)
• Earnings in the Presence of Limited Liability and Occupational Choice
• April 14, 2008
• Russell Cooper, University of Texas at Austin
• April 09, 2008
• Rasmus Lentz, University of Wisconsin
• TBD
• March 26, 2008
• Jason Faberman, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
• Job Flows, Jobless Recoveries, and the Great Moderation
• March 6, 2008
• Lutz Kilian, University of Michigan
• What Do We Learn from the Price of Crude Oil Futures?
• 2.27.08
• Emilio Espino, Universidad T. Di Tella
• 2.20.08
• Yongsung Chang, University of Rochester
• February 13, 2008
• Sebastian Buttet, Cleveland State University  (PDF)
• Engines of Liberation: The Impact of Technological Progress in an Imperfect Competition Setting
• January 16 , 2008
• Yi Daniel Xu, New York University  (PDF)
• A Structural Empirical Model of R&D, Firm Heterogeneity, and Industry Evolution
• 1.8.08
• Guntram Wolff, Deutsche Bundesbank
• December 19, 2007
• Nicola Cetorelli, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• The Impact of Bank Competition on the Life-Cycle Dynamics of Nonfinancial Firms
• December 11, 2007
• Gadi Barlevy, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
• A Leverage-Based Model of Speculative Bubbles
• November 28, 2007
• Alex Edmans, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania  (PDF)
• A Calibratable Model of Optimal CEO Incentives in Market Equilibrium
• November 14, 2007
• Gian Luca Clementi, Stern School of Business, New York University  (PDF)
• Asset Pricing in a Production Economy with Chew-Dekel Preferences
• November 7, 2007
• Roberto M. Billi, Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank  (PDF)
• Optimal Inflation for the United States
• October 31, 2007
• Paul Shea, University of Kentucky  (PDF)
• Red Herrings and Revelations: The Destabilizing and Stabilizing Effects of Economic Theory
• October 11, 2006
• Francisco Buera, Northwestern University
• The Rise of the Service Economy
• October 11, 2007
• Nick Bloom, Stanford University  (PDF)
• The Impact of Uncertainty Shocks
• October 3, 2007
• Patrick Bajari, University of Minnesota  (PDF)
• Estimating Hedonic Models of Consumer Demand with an Application to Urban Sprawl
• September 26, 2007 :: 11:00 a.m.
• Sevin Yeltekin Sleet, Carnegie Mellon University  (PDF)
• Does the U.S. Government Hedge against Expenditure Risk?
• September 6, 2007
• Aysegul Sahin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• June 14, 2007
• Manolis Galenianos, Pennsylvania State University
• June 13, 2007
• Todd Keister, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
• June 6, 2007
• Toshihiko Mukoyama, University of Virginia
• May 30, 2007
• Nick Bloom, Stanford University
• May 23, 2007
• Bjoern Bruegemann, Yale University
• May 16, 2007
• Ted Temzelides, University of Pittsburgh
• April 25, 2007
• Matthias Doepke, UCLA
• April 18, 2007
• Min Ouyang, University of California at Irvine
• April 11, 2007
• Andrew Lo, MIT
• April 6, 2007
• David Frame, Carnegie-Mellon University
• April 4, 2007
• Chad Syverson, University of Chicago
• March 28, 2007
• John Stevens, Federal Reserve Board
• March 7, 2007
• Jocelyn Finlay, Harvard University
• The Role of Health in Economic Development
• February 28, 2007
• Nobu Kiyotaki, Princeton University
• February 21, 2007
• Erik Devos, Ohio University
• February 7, 2007
• Andrea Pescatori, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
• January 17, 2007
• Alain Delacroix, University of Quebec at Montreal
• December 18, 2006
• Ben Lester, University of Pennsylvania
• December 12, 2006
• Alexei Deviatov, New Economy School
• Estimating a Cagan-type Demand Function for Gold: 1561-1913
• November 29, 2006
• Guido Menzio, University of Pennsylvania
• November 21, 2006
• Andrew Bernard, Dartmouth
• November 15, 2006
• Pierre-Alexandre Noual, University of Chicago
• November 14, 2006
• Larry Jones, University of Minnesota and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• Baby Booms and Baby Busts: The Response of Fertility to Shocks in Dynastic Models
• November 8, 2006
• James Schmitz, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
• November 1, 2006
• Kartik Athreya, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
• October 4, 2006
• Raoul Minetti, Michigan State University  (PDF)
• Foreign Lenders in Emerging Economies
• September 25, 2006
• Ayse Imrohoroglu, University of Southern California  (PDF)
• Secular Trends in U.S. Saving and Consumption
• September 21, 2006
• Thomas Holmes, University of Minnesota
• The Diffusion of Wal-Mart and Economies of Density
• September 5, 2006
• Donghoon Lee, New York University  (PDF)
• Accounting for Wage and Employment Changes in the U.S. from 1968-2000: A Dynamic Model of Labor Market Equilibrium
• September 25, 1980
• A Multisectoral Approach to the U.S. Great Depression
• 4.14.09 | 12-1
• Charles T. Carlstrom, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
• Legacy Assets and TALF: Price Discovery and Adverse Selection

Past Workshops

• November 14, 2009
• Northeast Ohio Economics Workshop
• This workshop provides economists in Northeast Ohio with an opportunity to present their research and fosters ties between area researchers who may have similar interests. The workshop is a great opportunity for junior faculty to network with one another and receive feedback on their research.