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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
5/7/13

CONTACT: Lavilla Capener, 608-265-5582, lcapener@bus.wisc.edu

FEDERAL RESERVE RESEARCH DIRECTOR TO SPEAK AT BUSINESS SCHOOL

MADISON - The executive vice president and director of research at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Loretta Mester, will be speaking about the financial crisis Wednesday, May 8, to Wisconsin School of Business students and board members as part of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education annual board meeting.

Mester heads a staff of economists and analysts who conduct research on macroeconomics, banking, payments, finance and the regional economy. She serves as the bank's chief economic advisor, attends the meetings of the Federal Open Market Committee in Washington, D.C. with the bank's president and makes regular presentations on the economy to the bank's board of directors.

Mester's remarks, "Federal Reserve Policy During and After the Crisis," will be from 4 to 5 p.m. in the plenary room at Grainger Hall, 975 University Ave., Madison.

The Wisconsin School of Business has experts who can speak about Federal Reserve policy and the financial crisis, as well as provide a response to Mester's remarks.

-Jim Johannes, 608-265-4488, jjohannes@bus.wisc.edu. Johannes, the director of the Puelicher Center for Banking Education and a professor of finance, can speak about banking and financial institutions, as well as monetary economics and policy.

-Dean Corbae, 608-265-5032, dcorbae@bus.wisc.edu. Corbae is a finance professor who holds a joint appointment in the economics department. He can speak about consumer credit and bankruptcy, foreclosures and banking industry dynamics.
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