Annual Conference on Macroeconomics
The NBER Macroeconomics Annual seeks to bring together the latest research on important and policy-relevant topics in macroeconomics. The span of research includes applied theory as well as empirical work, open-economy macroeconomics, and work on financial markets that bears on macroeconomics. The inaugural Macroeconomics Annual meeting was held in 1986, with Stanley Fischer as the organizer. Over the past 30 years, the organizers have included Ben Bernanke, Olivier Blanchard, Mark Gertler, Jonathan Parker, Ken Rogoff, and Julio Rotemberg, as well as the current organizers Martin Eichenbaum and Erik Hurst.
Investigators
John Leavy is the Allen Sinai Professor of Macroeconomics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan, where he also serves as department chair. His research ranges widely in macroeconomics, and includes corporate investment, consumer spending, and monetary economics.
Valerie Ramey is a Professor of Economics at the Hoover Institution, Stanford. Her research has explored the determinants of business cycle fluctuations, the effects of macroeconomic stabilization policies, and long-term trends in wage inequality.
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