Agenda
This conference is by invitation only.
Monday, May 15Location: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
| 1:00 p.m. | Introductory remarks |
| Chair for afternoon sessions: Robert Hetzel, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond | |
| 1:15 | Monetary Policy When One Size Does Not Fit All: the Federal Reserve Banks and the Recession of 1920–1921 Eugene White, Rutgers University [Presentation  ]Coauthor: Ellis Tallman, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |
| 2:15 | Break |
| 2:45 | U.S. Monetary Policy Since the 1950s and the Changing Content of FOMC Minutes Pierre Siklos, Wilfred Laurier University [Presentation ] |
| 3:45 | Break |
| 4:15 | Mobile Collateral versus Immobile Collateral Gary Gorton, Yale University [Presentation ]Coauthor: Tyler Muir, Yale University |
| 5:15 | Reception |
| 6:00 | Dinner and featured presentation The Failures That Ignited America's Financial Panics Hugh Rockoff, Rutgers University [Presentation ] |
Location: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
| Chair for morning sessions: Warren Weber, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta | |
| 8:30 a.m. | Continental breakfast |
| 9:00 | Banking Panics and Business Failures: Evidence from the Federal Reserve's Formative Years Gary Richardson, University of California, Irvine [Presentation ] |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:15 | Systemic Risk: Comparing the Great Recession with the Great Depression Kris Mitchener, Santa Clara University [Presentation ]Coauthors: Angela Vossmeyer, Claremont McKenna College, and Sanjiv Das, Santa Clara University |
| 11:15 | Break |
| 11:30 | Returning to Normal against Fiscal Headwinds: The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet after World War I and World War II Owen Humpage, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and Ellis Tallman, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland [Presentation ] |
| 12:30 p.m. | Lunch Chair for afternoon sessions: Michael Bordo, Rutgers University |
| 2:00 | The Origination and Distribution of Money Market Instruments: Sterling Bills of Exchange during the First Globalization Olivier Accominotti, London School of Economics [Presentation ]Coauthors: Stefano Ugolini, University of Toulouse, and Delio Lucena, University of Toulouse |
| 3:00 | Break |
| 3:30 | How the Bank of England Influenced British Interest Rates in the Classical Gold Standard Era Christopher Hanes, Binghamton University [Presentation ] |
| 4:30 | Break |
| 4:45 | Gold Standard Counterfactuals François Velde, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago [Presentation ]Coauthor: Thomas Sargent, New York University |
| 5:45 | Reception |
| 6:30 | Dinner and Public Affairs Forum Honoring Public Debts Thomas Sargent, New York University |
Location: Emory University
Transportation will be provided from Midtown Atlanta hotels to Emory University
| Chair for morning sessions: Caroline Fohlin, Emory University | |
| 9:00 a.m. | Women in Housing and Financial Markets, 1720 and 1725 Ann Carlos, University of Colorado [Presentation ]Coauthor: Laura Wreschnig, University of Colorado |
| 10:00 | Break |
| 10:15 | Economic Crises and the Eligiblity for the Lender of Last Resort: Evidence from 19th Century France Clemens Jobst, Oesterreichische Nationalbank [Presentation ]Coauthor: Kilian Rieder, University of Oxford |
| 11:15 | Break |
| 11:30 | Momentum in Imperial Russia William Goetzmann, Yale University [Presentation ]Coauthor: Simon Huang, Southern Methodist University |
| Lunch Chair for afternoon sessions: David Wheelock, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis |
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| 1:45 | The Dawes Bonds: Reparations, Selective Default, and International Trade Kim Oosterlinck, Université libre de Bruxelles [Presentation ]Coauthors: Olivier Accominotti, London School of Economics, and Philipp Kessler, Mannheim University |
| 2:45 | Break |
| 3:00 | Stock Volatility and the Great Depression Marc Weidenmier, Claremont McKenna College [Presentation ]Coauthor: Gustavo Cortes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| 4:00 | Adjournment Transportation will be provided to Midtown Atlanta hotels and to the Atlanta airport. |