http://www.frbatlanta.org/ The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the other eleven Reserve banks play an important part in all three of the Fed's functions--monetary policy, bank supervision and regulation, and the operation of a narionwide payments system http://www.frbatlanta.org/images/icon_frblogo.jpg http://www.frbatlanta.org http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=DAEBEF81-5056-9F12-12B7C1C291B3EA94&method=display Mon, 11 May 2009 This conference examines the challenges of measuring, managing, and regulating risk in innovative financial instruments. The program focuses particularly on the recent credit crisis, historical perspectives, and the future of financial intermediation. Conference papers and presentations are being posted as they are presented. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=DB50D94D-5056-9F12-129BA6294185089C&method=display Wed, 18 Mar 2009 The Americas Center Consumer Banking Conference, hosted by the Florida International University School of Business, will explore how banking the unbanked and underbanked helps stabilize and strengthen financial industries and economies in the United States and Latin America. The conference will also delve into how access to mainstream banking services stabilizes communities and how growth in consumer banking markets can occur safely and soundly through financial education, regulation, and product innovation. Speakers will discuss how successful partnerships support the continued progress in banking the unbanked. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=60B68B25-5056-9F12-12AAE8A011B6C2ED&method=display Tue, 10 Feb 2009 Recent work on labor markets has stressed the importance of trading frictions in accounting for the outcomes that we observe in this market. The focus of this conference, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, is to further our understanding of how frictions in both labor and product markets markets influence the operation of labor markets. The program features papers that range from the development of new theories that incorporate frictions, to those that use these theories to determine the implications for policy design and data interpretation, to those that carry out data analysis to helps us better isolate the key empirical facts that these theories seek to account for. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=00C2E808-5056-9F12-128E06DAA53BB55D&method=display Wed, 15 Oct 2008 This workshop brings together economists from throughout the Southeast to share and discuss new research on the fields of international and development economics. The workshop is co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Stetson School of Business and Economics at Mercer University. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=70B52779-5056-9F12-1288B71BB2072526&method=display Wed, 17 Sep 2008 http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=48AC85C2-5056-9F12-1272BAB2A2489B20&method=display Tue, 09 Sep 2008 http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=C9208BDE-5056-9F12-128EE786F3B4874F&method=display Thu, 08 May 2008 Keynote speaker Ben Bernanke leads off this conference examining the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's long-term impact on corporate governance, Reg FD and reforms to the Wall Street research machine, activist investing, and the possibility of a 24/7 marketplace. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=C80E2982-5056-9F12-12C0E16C22629AAA&method=display Tue, 25 Mar 2008 Following our 2004 and 2006 conferences, the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and New York are sponsoring a third conference on the economics of payments. Conference papers consist of theoretically and empirically oriented work and are concerned with both retail and wholesale payment systems. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=1DEE1A2A-5056-9F12-12F165F2EE6CF361&method=display Thu, 21 Feb 2008 Developing countries received an estimated at $240 billion in remittances in 2007--an increase of more than 130 percent since 2001. In developing countries, remittances make up about 2 percent of total income and have become increasingly important as a source of foreign income in terms of both magnitude and growth. Given the importance of this source of capital, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta hosted a two-day conference where scholars presented and discussed their research on the macroeconomic impact of remittances. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=34D21EA2-5056-9F12-122F01FFD7DD8E71&method=display Wed, 13 Feb 2008 As the market for credit derivatives continues to expand and evolve, many questions arise regarding the impact of these instruments on global financial markets. How do credit derivatives affect the allocation and transmission of risk across the broader financial market? This conference will bring together academics, practitioners, regulators, and policymakers to analyze and assess the various types of risks--model, operational, and systemic--that may be involved in credit derivatives. This unique format will integrate the perspectives of banks, hedge funds and other market participants, corporations, and supervisors of financial institutions and markets with the broader financial stability concerns of central banks and government agencies. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=4A4451EC-5056-9F12-128AA774F9139621&method=display Thu, 14 Jun 2007 An Atlanta Fed conference explored how monetary policy is transmitted in the context of a modern financial system now featuring the substantial presence of nonbanks and asset-backed securitization. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=6A9500B2-5056-9F12-1244764DDE60C580&method=display Fri, 23 Mar 2007 Cohosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Americas Center and Florida International University's Summit of the Americas Center (SOAC). This conference focuses on postelection Latin America and considers some prominent issues related to developments in consumer banking. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=62BCA695-5056-9F12-12A384961F7332B4&method=display Mon, 26 Feb 2007 On November 16, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta hosted a program focused on discussions of Latin America and Developing Asia and these two regions' growing relationship, which is largely driven by trade and investment linkages. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=E7ED71F3-5056-9F12-12352E96DCAC220F&method=display Fri, 17 Nov 2006 The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta hosted a workshop on monetary and financial history. The papers presented analyzed various historical monetary and fiscal policy regimes as well as the U.S. banking and payment systems prior to the founding of the Federal Reserve. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=8DE73A17-5056-9F06-9998505AD6F0EFD3&method=display Tue, 28 Mar 2006 Separating trend from cycle is central to the study of long-run growth and the business cycle. The goal is to measure the permanent and transitory components of output to identify its long-run and business cycle fluctuations. In 1981, Beveridge and Nelson developed A New Approach to Permanent and Transitory Components with Particular Attention to Measurement of the 'Business Cycle,' an econometric model that decomposes a time series into its permanent and transitory components. Much business cycle analysis of the last twenty-five years would not be possible without their decomposition. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=C0909315-5056-9F06-9934098450EFE0C1&method=display Fri, 03 Mar 2006 A conference organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the International Association of Financial Engineers. This conference brought together academics, practitoners, and policymakers to discuss systemic risk arising from the interactions of modern financial institutions and financial markets. The conference featured four sessions covering models of financial system risk, models of strategic liquidity provision, the role of certain types of financial institutions in financial system risk, and the potential role of financial innovation and mark-to-market accounting in contributing to financial instability. http://www.frbatlanta.org/invoke.cfm?objectid=554CF965-5056-9F06-99BF6AB35CC6DAD1&method=display Thu, 02 Mar 2006 As policymakers debate Social Security reform, the range of pension reforms in the Americas offers many lessons. Chile's pension reform is now in its twenty-fifth year, and other reforms in the region are at least a decade old. These reforms give researchers a substantial body of data to analyze in evaluating pension reforms in terms of efficiency and equity. At this conference, leading experts on pensions will present their research and discuss the lessons of pension reform in the Americas.