This conference is by invitation only.
Monday, May 19 Location: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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Introductory remarks Dennis Lockhart, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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2:00 | Session 1 "The Value of Bank Supervision: National Banks in New York, 1889–1891" Eugene White, Rutgers University |
3:00 | Break |
3:15 | Session 2 "The (Dis)Advantages of Clearinghouses before the Fed" Matthew Jaremski, Colgate University [Presentation] |
4:15 | Break |
4:30 | Session 3 "Navigating Constraints: The Evolution of Federal Reserve Monetary Policy, 1935–59" David Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis [Presentation] Coauthor: Mark Carlson, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
5:30 | Reception |
6:00 | Dinner Remarks by Michael Bordo, Warren Weber, and others will honor the contributions of the late Bruce Champ of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |
Tuesday, May 20 Location: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
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Session 4 "Smoothing the Flow: Currency and Payments in the Early Modern Low Countries, 1500–1800" Joost Jonker, University of Utrecht Coauthor: Oscar Gelderblom, University of Utrecht |
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10:00 | Break |
10:15 | Session 5 "Early Public Banks" Francois Velde, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Coauthor: William Roberds, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta |
11:15 | Break |
11:30 | Session 6 "The Coevolution of Money Markets and Monetary Policy, 1815–2008" Clemens Jobst, Austrian National Bank Coauthor: Stefano Ugolini, LEREPS, University of Toulouse |
Lunch | |
2:15 | Session 7 "The Price of Stability: The Balance Sheet Policy of the Banque de France and the Gold Standard (1880–1914)" Eric Monnet, Banque de France |
3:15 | Break |
3:30 | Session 8 "Pre-Banking Financial Intermediation: Evidence from a Brokerage Law Reform in Eighteenth Century Marseille" Veronica Santarosa, University of Michigan |
4:30 | Break |
4:45 | Session 9 "The Life and Legacy of the Second Bank of the United States" Peter Rousseau, Vanderbilt University |
6:00 | Public Affairs Forum reception and dinner (Note: This event is only for speakers and special guests.) "The Fed as Lender of Last Resort" Remarks by Michael Bordo, Rutgers University |
Wednesday, May 21 Location: Goizueta School of Business, Emory University |
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9:30 a.m. | Session 10 "Bank Liability Insurance Schemes in the United States Before 1865" Warren Weber, Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Minneapolis |
10:30 | Break |
10:45 | Session 11 "Effects of the Introduction of Securities Ratings in the Early Twentieth Century" Eric Hilt, Wellesley College |
11:45 | Lunch |
Session 12 "Information Latency and Asset Markets: Evidence from the Introduction of the Telegraph" Christopher Meissner, University of California–Davis |
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2:00 | Break |
2:15 | Session 13 "Leverage and Beliefs: Personal Experience and Risk Taking in Margin Lending" Peter Koudijs, Stanford University |
3:15 | Break |
3:45 | Featured presentation (Hightower lecture) "The Financial Crisis: What Happened? (Or, the Next Financial Crisis)" Gary Gorton, Yale University |
4:45 | Reception |
Thursday, May 22, 2014 Location: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Research Seminar Room |
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9:00 a.m. | Session 14 "Sample Selection and Treatment Effect Estimation of Lender of Last Resort Policies" Angela Vossmeyer, University of California, Irvine [Presentation] |
10:00 | Break |
10:15 | Session 15 "The Financial Interconnectedness of Railroads and the Transmission of Financial Distress during the Great Depression" Jonathan Rose, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System Coauthor: Egon Zakrajsek, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System |
11:30 | Session 16 "Aldrich-Vreeland Emergency Currency Ended the Seasonality of U.S. Interest Rates" Ellis Tallman, Oberlin College and the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |
Conference organized by Michael Bordo (Rutgers University), Caroline Fohlin (Emory University), and William Roberds (Atlanta Fed)