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Fall Conference Interviews Feature Wide Range of Topics March 24, 2015 Presenters at the St. Louis Fed’s 39th Annual Fall Conference sat down with David Andolfatto, a vice president and economist with the St. Louis Fed, to discuss their work in plain English. The interviews, which covered topics ranging from the Affordable Care Act to a breakdown in the job ladder, can be viewed at the links below. • “Mandatory Disclosure and Financial Contagion” with Fernando Alvarez • “Resurrecting the Role of the Product Market Wedge in Recessions” with Mark Bils • “On the Optimality of Financial Repression” with V.V. Chari • “Spatial Variation in Higher Education Financing and the Supply of College Graduates” with John Kennan • “Competition and Bank Opacity” with Ross Levine • “Demand Stimulus and Inflation: Empirical Evidence” with Iourii Manovskii • “Did the Job Ladder Fail After the Great Recession?” with Giuseppe Moscarini • “The New Full-Time Employment Taxes” with Casey Mulligan • “What Shifts the Beveridge Curve? Recruitment Effort and Financial Shocks” with Gianluca Violante Additional Resources • Connecting Policy with Frontier Research • On the Economy: How World War I Changed Marriage Patterns in Europe • On the Economy: Which States Are Most Affected by Falling Oil Prices?