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2019
October 23, 2019
Do Workforce Policies Support Low-Wage Employees?
Meghan Cummings, Executive Director, The Women's Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation
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June 6, 2019
At the Intersection of Fed and Main (Birmingham)
Featured panelists: Raphael Bostic, President, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Sanjay Singh, Vice Chairman of Workforce Development, Birmingham Business Alliance
March 13, 2019
Is Anything Private Anymore?
Alessandro Acquisti, Professor of Information Technology and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University's Heinz College
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2018
September 19, 2018
The Future of Food
Jayson Lusk, Distinguished Head and Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Purdue University
July 25, 2018
The Great Gatsby Curve: Inequality and Mobility in Modern America
Steven Durlauf, Steans Family Professor in Educational Policy, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
April 25, 2018
Immigration in American Economic History
Ran Abramitzky, Associate Professor Economics, Stanford University
March 8, 2018
President Bostic Meets with Miami Leaders
Raphael Bostic, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
January 19, 2018
Atlanta Fed Chief Visits a Nashville on the Rise
Raphael Bostic, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
2017
October 25, 2017
The Impact of Social Networks on Economic Outcomes
Matthew O. Jackson, William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University
October 19, 2017
An Evening with Raphael Bostic (Birmingham)
Raphael Bostic, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
September 13, 2017
Income Inequality and the Economy: The Impact on Workers and Consumers
Steven Fazzari, Bert A. and Jeanette L. Lynch Distinguished Professor of Economics at Washington University and Jim Shelton, President of Education, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
September 7, 2017
An Evening with Raphael Bostic (New Orleans)
Raphael Bostic, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
August 10, 2017
An Afternoon with Raphael Bostic (Jacksonville)
Raphael Bostic, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
May 16, 2017
Honoring Public Debts: Who Is Accountable?
Thomas J. Sargent, Professor of Economics and Business, Stern School of Business, New York University
March 8
The Fintech Opportunity
Thomas Philippon, Professor of Finance, Stern School of Business, New York University
February 2
The Federal Reserve and Lessons Learned from the Life of Alan Greenspan
Sebastian Mallaby, Paul A. Volcker Senior Fellow for International Economics, Council on Foreign Relations
2016
October 26
The Economics of College Sports
Joel Maxcy, Associate Professor of Sport Management, Drexel University
September 9
Forecasting Florida: What's Ahead for Our State and National Economies (Jacksonville)
Sean Snaith, Director, Institute for Economic Competitiveness, University of Central Florida
July 20
Big Data and HR: Lessons Learned
Prasanna (Sonny) Tambe, Associate Professor, New York University Stern School of Business
March 9
Cuba and the United States: What's Next?
Carlos Alzugaray Treto, Professor, University of Havana
January 20
The Timeline of Presidential Elections
Christopher Wlezien, Hogg Professor of Government, University of Texas at Austin
2015
October 21
The Monetary Costs of Dementia: Today and in the Future
Michael D. Hurd, Director and Senior Principal Researcher, RAND Center for the Study of Aging
July 22
The Economics of Creativity: Markets and Modern Art (Atlanta)
David W. Galenson, Professor of Economics, University of Chicago
June 4
Shoring Up the Economic Future of the Mississippi River (New Orleans)
Dominik Knoll, Chief Executive Officer, World Trade Center New Orleans
David Batker, Chief Economist and Executive Director, Earth Economics
May 12
Not So Ancient History: Exploring Familiar Themes in Banking Crises (Atlanta)
Charles Calomiris, Henry Kaufman Professor of Financial Institutions, Graduate School of Business, Columbia University
April 16
Where Government Meets Business: Exploring the Infrastructure of Public-Private Partnerships (Miami)
Richard Geddes, Associate Professor, Department of Policy Analysis and Management
Cornell University
March 11
Unraveling the Sharing Economy: How Airbnb and Uber Are Transforming American Business (Atlanta)
Arun Sundararajan, Professor, Information, Operations, and Management Sciences
New York University Leonard N. Stern School of Business
2014
November 16
Bitcoin and Beyond: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Virtual Currency (Jacksonville Branch)
David Andolfatto, Vice President and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
Article | 
Presentation
October 22
Sustainable Economic Development: Will Atlanta Be Ready for 2050?
Matthew E. Kahn, Professor, Institute of the Environment, Department of Public Policy, Department of Economics, Anderson School of Management, and School of Law, University of California–Los Angeles
Article and video | 
Transcript | Presentation
July 23
Aging and Economic Decision Making: Older and Wiser?
Eric J. Johnson, Norman Eig Professor of Business and Director, Center for Decision Sciences
Columbia University
Article and video | Transcript | Presentation
July 17
The Economics of Sport: What's the Score? (Birmingham Branch)
Robert A. Baade, A.B. Dick Professor of Economics and Business
Lake Forest College
Article | 
Presentation
May 20
The Federal Reserve as a Lender of Last Resort: An Historical Perspective
Michael D. Bordo, Board of Governors Professor of Economics and Director, Center for Monetary and Financial History, Rutgers University
Article and video | Transcript | 
Presentation
March 12
Behavioral Economics: Too Much Influence on Policy?
Glenn Harrison, C.V. Starr Chair of Risk Management and Insurance and Director, Center for the Economic Analysis of Risk, Georgia State University
Article and video | Transcript
2013
November 14
College (Un)bound: The Future of Higher Education (Nashville Branch)
Jeffrey J. Selingo, Editor at Large, the Chronicle of Higher Education
Article
October 23
Why We Do What We Do: Economics of Human Motivation
John A. List, Homer J. Livingston Professor of Economics and Department of Economics Chairman, University of Chicago
Article and video | 
Transcript
September 5
Wetlands Reclamation (New Orleans Branch)
R. King Milling, chairman of America's Wetland Foundation and chairman of the Louisiana Governor's Advisory Commission on Coastal Protection, Restoration, and Conservation
Article | Presentation
July 24
Is the End of the Age of Innovation Upon Us?
Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University, and the Sackler Professor of Economics, University of Tel Aviv
Article and video | Transcript | Presentation
March 13
The Higher Education Bubble
Glenn Reynolds, Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Tennessee
Article and video | Transcript
2012
October 17
Advancing Entrepreneurship in America: Building Blocks for Success
Amy Wilkinson, Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School, Center for Business and Government, and Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Article and video | Transcript
July 25
Surviving the New Economics of Health Care: Can Reviving the Doctor of the Past Meet the Challenges of the Present?
David Meltzer, MD, PhD, Chief of the Hospital Medicine Section and Director of the Center for Health and Social Sciences, University of Chicago
Article and video | Transcript
April 18
Beyond GDP: Should the United States Measure Well-Being?
Carol Graham, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution
Article and video | Transcript
2011
October 26
Public Pension Promises: How Big Are They and What Are They Worth?
Joshua D. Rauh, Associate Professor of Finance, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Article and video | Transcript | Presentation
June 15
The Economics of Sport: What's the Score?
Robert A. Baade, PhD, A.B. Dick Professor of Economics and Business, Lake Forest College
Article and video | Transcript
March 9
The Economics of Retirement Planning: Are Pension Plans Retiring Themselves?
Roger W. Ferguson Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF
Article and video | Transcript
2010
November 10
Has the Recession Arrested Crime?
Richard Rosenfeld, Curators Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice, University of Missouri, St. Louis, and President, American Society of Criminology
June 16
The Economics of Income Inequality: Traversing the Great Divide
Steven E. Landsburg, Professor of Economics, University of Rochester
Podcast and transcript
March 10
The Economics of Urban Growth
Ed Glaeser, Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Podcast and transcript
2009
Oct. 8
The Economics of Urban Transportation
Kenneth A. Small, Research Professor and Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of California, Irvine
Podcast and transcript
June 17
Testing the Waters: Pricing and Urban Water Conservation
Sheila M. Olmstead, Associate Professor of Environmental Economics, Yale University
Podcast and transcript
March 11
Solving Global Issues: Where Do We Start?
Finn Kydland, Henly Professor of Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Nobel Prize Laureate
Podcast and transcript
2008
Nov. 12
Entitlement Spending: The Coming Reckoning
Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Professor of Economics, Boston University, and President, Economic Security Planning Inc.
Sept. 10
The Economics of Rising Oil Prices—What Is the Cause?
James D. Hamilton, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
May 7
The Economics of Immigration
Gordon Hanson, Director of the Center on Pacific Economies and Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Feb. 13
The Economics of Health Care Policy
Joseph Newhouse, John P. MacArthur Professor of Health Policy and Management, Harvard University
2007
Oct. 10
Real-Time China: Exploring China's Emergence as a Market Economy and a Global Player
Dave Altig, Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta