Sevin Yeltekin is a Professor of Economics and the Senior Associate Dean, Education, at the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University. She received her Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University.
Marla Ripoll is a Professor of Economics at the University of Pittsburgh, where she also serves as Core Faculty at the Center of Latin American Studies and the Global Studies Program. She received her BA from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia and her Ph.D. from the University of Rochester.
The SED Day-Ahead Conference, organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, is a macroeconomic conference covering influential research with an emphasis on microeconomic data, consumer behavior, and firm and household heterogeneity. The event precedes the 2019 SED annual conference. Click in the link for the Agenda.
Conference registration will be available Wednesday June 26th at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis during the welcome reception, and Thursday June 27th at the Danforth Campus of Washington University.
As part of the registration material, conference participants will receive a 20 oz Silver Aluminum water bottle with a carabiner and a screw top (BPA free and meets FDA requirements). This be the only source of to carry water to the sessions and around campus as the sale of bottled water was ended on campus in February 2009. Participants will also receive a Vault RFID Security 15’’ Computer Backpack. The RFID technology prohibit unauthorized access to your credit cards and passport. The main compartment holds up to a 15 inch laptop, and a separate padded compartment can accommodate a tablet.
Coming soon. A detailed listing of the conference sessions, speakers, and papers.
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Highlights the key facts for this year's annual meeting.