31st Annual Conference on Macroeconomics

April 15 and 16, 2016
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Conference on Macroeconomics organizers Jonathan Parker (right) and Martin Eichenbaum (left) and Lawrence Summers (center), who spoke at the conference dinner.
Links to videos of conference presentations, research papers, and interviews with researchers are below.
32nd Annual Conference on Macroeconomics
30th Annual Conference on Macroeconomics
Forward Guidance and Macroeconomic Outcomes
Since the Financial Crisis
Are State and Time Dependent Models Really Different?
Is the Macroeconomy Locally Unstable and Why Should We Care?
Macrofinancial History and the New Business Cycle Facts
The Analytics of the Greek Crisis
Jump-Starting the Euro Area Recovery:
Would a Rise in Core Fiscal Spending Help the Periphery?
Commodity Prices and the Macroeconomy

Leading academic, government, and private sector experts participated in a panel on
the economics of global commodities prices. James D. Hamilton of the University of
California at San Diego, Steven B. Kamin of the Federal Reserve Board, and Steven
Strongin of Goldman Sachs focused on the effects of a cooling Chinese economy, and
on the future of oil prices in general and fracking in particular.
Since the Financial Crisis
with Jeffrey Campbell |
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Are State and Time Dependent Models Really Different?
with Francesco Lippi |
Click here to download paper
Is the Macroeconomy Locally Unstable and Why Should We Care?
with Paul Beaudry |
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Macrofinancial History and the New Business Cycle Facts
with Moritz Schularick |
Click here to download paper
The Analytics of the Greek Crisis
with Thomas Phillipon |
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Jump-Starting the Euro Area Recovery:
Would a Rise in Core Fiscal Spending Help the Periphery?
with Christopher Erceg |
Click here to download paper
Commodity Prices and the Macroeconomy
Leading academic, government, and private sector experts participated in a panel on
the economics of global commodities prices. James D. Hamilton of the University of
California at San Diego, Steven B. Kamin of the Federal Reserve Board, and Steven
Strongin of Goldman Sachs focused on the effects of a cooling Chinese economy, and
on the future of oil prices in general and fracking in particular.