Conferences
NBER Summer Institute Group: Micro Data and Macro Models
Since 2018, Erik Hurst, Gianluca Violante and I have co-organized a 4-day meeting at the NBER summer institute. The group typically meets during the second week of the institute.
We invite submissions that study the intersection of microeconomic heterogeneity and macroeconomic outcomes, either from a theoretical or an applied perspective. Research that uses equilibrium models to establish this connection is particularly encouraged, but we also welcome work that exploits new sources of micro data or proposes new empirical approaches to address questions of importance for macroeconomics.
Our group picked up from the group that was successfully led by Orazio Attanasio, Chris Carroll and Jose-Victor Rios Rull for 25 years (Consumption - Micro to Macro). Although we retain a particular focus on questions pertaining to consumption, saving and household inequality, we welcome submissions on other topics as well.
Previous programs can be found here:
Reserve Bank of Australia Quantitative Macroeconomics Workshop
Each December, the Reserve Bank of Australia hosts a conference on quantitative macroeconomics in Sydney, Australia. I have been a co-organizer of this conference since 2012 and a participant for several years before that as well. A call for papers is circulated each June. I encourage anyone working in quantitative macroeconomics to submit a paper. Besides being an extremely high quality gathering of macroeconomists, it is a chance to visit the most beautiful city in the world.
Previous calls for papers and programs can be found here:
2019 call for papers • 2019 program