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Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
1000 Peachtree Street N.E.
Atlanta, GA 30309

April 3, 2025

The joint FRBA-UVA Darden "Financial Intermediaries, Markets, and Monetary Policy" conference will be held in person at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta on April 3, 2025. The conference will bring together academics and policy makers to facilitate in-depth conversations on topics that are top of mind in the central banking community. Presentations will speak to the effects of AI on the economy, the evolving nature of financial intermediation and monetary policy transmission in the United States, and modern analytical tools for central bank communications. 

Agenda

Thursday, April 3
8:00 a.m. Breakfast
8:30 Welcome
Mark Jensen, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
8:35 AI and Financial Markets
Itay Goldstein, Wharton School
9:30 Break
10:00 Bank Branch Density and Bank Runs
Effi Benmelech, Kellogg School of Management
11:00 Deposit Market Power, Funding Stability and Long-Term Credit
Elena Loutskina, University of Virginia Darden School of Business
Noon Lunch and keynote
12:30 p.m. The Economic Outlook and Central Bank Communications
Philip N. Jefferson, Vice Chair, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Moderator: Paula Tkac, Research Director, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
1:30 Tough Talk: The Fed and the Risk Premium
Michael McMahon, University of Oxford
2:30 Break
3:00 Perceptions about Monetary Policy
Adi Sunderam, Harvard Business School
4:00 Collateral Heterogeneity in Debt Contracts: Implications for Monetary Policy Transmission
Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Brown University
4:55 Adjournment
5:00 Reception

Conference organizers: Camelia Minoiu, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and Bo Sun, University of Virginia Darden School of Business