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     The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis will hold its annual economic 
     policy conference at the Bank on October 16-17, 1997.  The topic of 
     this year's conference is "Lessons from Financial History."  The 
     agenda is printed below.  For an invitation to attend, or for further 
     information, contact me at the address below. 
 
 
David C. Wheelock 
 
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis 
1997 Policy Conference 
October 16-17, 1997 
 
Lessons From Financial History 
 
 
Tentative Agenda 
 
 
Thursday, October 16, 1997 
Session 1:  What Should Banks Do? 
 
Eugene N. White, Rutgers University: "A Microeconomic Study of Bank Lending 
in 
Late Nineteenth Century America" 
 
Caroline Fohlin, California Institute of Technology: "A Comparison of 
British 
and German Banking Structures Before World War I" 
 
 
Session 2:  Financial Market Effects of Institutional Change 
 
Larry Neal, University of Illinois: "The Bank of England's First Return to 
Gold 
and the Stock Market Crash of 1825" 
 
Richard Sylla, New York University: "Financial Innovation:  The Origins and 
Development of the First U.S. Capital Markets" 
 
Charles W. Calomiris, Columbia University, and Berry Wilson, Federal 
Communications Commission: "Deep Markets, Liquidity, and the Founding of 
the 
Fed" 
 
 
Friday, October 17, 1996 
 
A New Historical Banking Database 
 
   Joseph Mason, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency 
 
 
Session 3:  The Payment System in Historical Perspective 
 
Arthur Rolnick, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis; Bruce Smith, 
University of 
Texas and Warren Weber, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis:  "Lessons from 
the 
Suffolk Banking System" 
 
R. Alton Gilbert, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis:  title to be announced 
 
 
Discussants (to date) include Michael Bordo, Randall Kroszner, Naomi 
Lamoreaux, 
Peter Temin. 
 
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