07-25-2024
The Midwest Macroeconomics Group has been bringing together leading midwestern scholars for more than 30 years.
The group was given an official name by Purdue University’s Jerry and Rosie Semler Chair in Economics Mario Crucini, Indiana University Professor Gerhard Glomm and Washington University’s Seigle Family Professor in Arts and Sciences Ping Wang in 2011 to formalize an institutional structure of the Midwest Macroeconomics Meetings, the first three of which were hosted by the founders at Michigan State University (1994), Ohio State University (1995) and Penn State University (1996), respectively. It has grown in popularity and volume of submitted papers, and since 2012 has met twice a year.
The goal of these meetings is to encourage frontier academic research in macroeconomics, broadly defined in terms of topics but rigorously grounded in economic theory and measurement. The premiere academic conference is restricted to chosen presenting authors.
The 30th anniversary meeting takes place September 6-8, 2024, at the Daniels School of Business and includes plenary speakers Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé, professor of economics at Columbia University, and Lee Ohanian, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and economics professor at UCLA.
