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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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