About

The Summer Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory is an annual research conference dedicated to frontier work in dynamic macroeconomics. It was founded in 1987 by Larry Jones and Nancy Stokey at Northwestern University, where the Kellogg Graduate School of Management hosted it (almost) annually through 1999. The workshop moved to Minneapolis in 2000, where for more than two decades it has been held at the University of Minnesota under the joint sponsorship of the university and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, with past support from the National Science Foundation. The workshop brings together scholars to present new research and exchange ideas through substantive interactions and discussion.

Scope

The workshop welcomes papers across the breadth of dynamic macroeconomic theory. Recurring themes include:

• Asset Pricing from a General Equilibrium Perspective
• Consumption and Income Dynamics
• Credit and Fluctuations
• Depressions and Crises
• Dynamics of Income and Wealth Distributions
• Dynamics with Heterogeneous Agents
• Dynamics of Housing
• Dynamics of Human Capital
• International Macroeconomics
• International Trade and Geography
• Labor Market Dynamics
• Demographic Change, Families, and Health
• Monetary and Fiscal Policy
• Optimal Policy
• Politics and Growth
• Technological Change, Organizations, and Growth

Submissions in other areas are equally welcome. While the title of the workshop includes "Theory," empirical work guided by theory has long been a substantial part of the conference.

Photo of Nancy Stokey: University of Chicago Photographic Archive, apf1-13110, Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center, University of Chicago Library.