Upcoming Conference
Directions
The Collaboration of Research Economists (CORE) model combines frontier research and an innovative delivery method to advance collaboration within the economics profession.
The CORE model consists of 7 CORE Weeks per year. During each week, visiting economists from a range of disciplines will join with Richmond Fed economists for seminars, conferences, and formal and informal networking and collaboration — all with an eye toward advancing economic research.
Select CORE Weeks throughout the year feature specialty conferences, lectures, and events focused on gathering top economic scholars to share research on a common topic or theme.
CORE Week Presenters
New York University
FRB Philadelphia
University of Southern California
University of Georgia
UC Santa Barbara
University of Toronto
Payments & Financial Intermediation Conference Presenters
Columbia University
Dartmouth College
UC Berkeley
FRB Richmond
University of Pennsylvania
MIT
Agenda
Titles listed where decided
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Monday, Nov. 2, 2026
03:30 pm
Visitor Seminar: Thorsten Drautzburg (Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia) presenting the paper "Communicating Policy Under Uncertainty" written with Igor Livshits and Makoto Nakajima
05:30 pmOffsite Collaboration Hour
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Tuesday, Nov. 3, 2026
09:00 am
Economist & Visitor Collaboration Morning
11:00 amVisitor Seminar: Svetlana Pashchenko (University of Georgia) presenting the paper "Claiming versus Retiring" written with Ponpoje Porapkkarm
03:30 pmVisitor Seminar: Ayşe İmrohoroğlu (University of Southern California)
04:30 pmOnsite Networking Hour
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Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2026
09:00 am
Economist & Visitor Collaboration Morning
11:00 amVisitor Seminar: Peter Rupert (University of California at Santa Barbara) presenting the paper "European Housing Markets" written with Roman Sustek
03:30 pmVisitor Seminar: Corina Boar (New York University) presenting the paper "Importers, Market Power and Optimal Tariffs" written with Jonathan Becker and Virgiliu Midrigan
05:30 pmOffsite Collaboration Hour
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Thursday, Nov. 5, 2026
11:00 am
Visitor Seminar: Eugene Tan (University of Toronto) presenting the paper "Uncertainty and Flexibility in Capital Budgeting and Aggregate Risk" written with Cheng Chen, Takahiro Hattori, and Poorya Kabir
02:00 pmPAYMENTS & FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION CONFERENCE (Day 1)
Apoorv Gupta (Dartmouth College) presenting the paper "Demographics and Technology Diffusion: Evidence from Mobile Payments" written with Nicolas Crouzet, Pulak Ghosh and Filippo Mezzanotti
03:00 pmYao Zeng (University of Pennsylvania) presenting the paper "The Effect of Instant Payments on the Banking System: Liquidity Transformation and Risk-Taking" written with Ding Ding, Rodrigo Gonzalez, and Yiming Ma
04:00 pmChristine Parlour (UC Berkeley) presenting the paper "Payment Methods and Market Structure" written with Uday Rajan and Johan Walden
05:00 pmOnsite Reception
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Friday, Nov. 6, 2026
09:30 am
PAYMENTS & FINANCIAL INTERMEDIATION CONFERENCE (Day 2)
Haoxiang Zhu (MIT) presenting the paper "Payment Innovation and Interbank Competition" written with Rodney Garratt and Jiaheng Yu
10:30 amZhu Wang (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) presenting the paper "Buy Now, Pay Later" written with Russell Wong
11:30 amAgostino Capponi (Columbia University) presenting the paper "The Hidden Cost of Tokenization: Blockchain Congestion and Native-Token Price Discovery"
12:20 pmClosing Lunch
Previous CORE Weeks
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