Mario J. Crucini, Purdue University
Gerhard Glomm, Indiana University
Ping Wang, University of Washington, St. LouisThe Midwest Macroeconomics Group was founded by Mario Crucini, Gerhard Glomm and 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. 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.
Historically conferences had been held once a year, in the spring, but the growth of the population of attendees and submissions had been so impressive that beginning in fall 2012, the group started meeting twice a year, in the fall and spring. When the conference was held annually the average number of papers on the program was 168 (2005-11) and has since averaged 153 (2011-2019). Over the same period the acceptance rate of submissions has dropped from 60% to 50%. The spring meetings receive about 40% more submissions than the fall meetings and are about a third larger in size.
Please note that in all cases, once the local scientific committee at the host institution has engaged Conference Maker, the submission portal and conference page for the venue will also be available by following the Conference Maker links (there are two links, one to the conference homepage at the host institution and one to the Conference Maker submission portal). The logistical details (beyond data and location) are not published on this site to avoid syncing issues and the inevitable confusion that follows.
If you are interested in hosting a future Midwest Macroeconomics Meeting, please send an email copying Mario, Gerhard and Ping at the e-mail addresses above.
We are very pleased to announce that Texas Tech University is hosting the Fall 2026 meetings from November 13-15, 2026. Please navigate to Conference Maker for both the submission portal link and the conference page for this venue.
[07/10/2026] We thank our colleagues at the Marquette University for hosting the Spring 2026 meetings. On behalf of the entire "Midwest" macroeconomics community, thanks to the conference co-chairs, Carolina Acuña-Armenta and Stephen Cole (Marquette University) and the program committee members: Carter Braxton and Louphou Coulibaly (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Juanma Castro-Vincenzi (University of Chicago), Rupal Kamdar (Indiana University Bloomington), Kundan Kishor (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), Enrique Martínez-García (Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas), Walker Ray and Alessandro Villa (Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago) and Shihan Xie (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign).
Special gratitude is also extended to the plenary speakers:
James Bullard, Dr. Samuel R. Allen Dean of the Mitch Daniels School of Business at Purdue University and Former President and CEO of Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, who spoke on the topic: “Macroeconomics for the Masses with 37% Luck Included.”
Marco Del Negro, Director of the Applied Macroeconomic and Econometrics Center at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, who spoke on the topic of: “Chopping the Onion: Input-Output Networks and Inflation Dynamics.”
[12/10/2025] We thank our colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland for hosting the Fall 2025 meetings. On behalf of the entire "Midwest" macroeconomics community, thanks to the conference co-chairs, Barış Kaymak and Pawel Krolikowski and the program committee members: Daniel Carroll, Chengcheng Jia, Karen Kopecky, Pierlauro Lopez, André Victor Luduvice, Tom Phelan and Roberto Pinheiro.
Special gratitude is also extended to the plenary speakers:
Loukas Karabarbounis
Curtis L. Carlson Professor of Economics, University of Minnesota
Michèle Tertilt
Professor of Economics, University of Mannheim
[08/06/2025] We thank our colleagues at the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City for hosting the Spring 2025 meetings. On behalf of the entire "Midwest" macroeconomics community, thanks to the conference co-chairs, Huixin Bi and José Mustre-del-Río and the program committee members: Jason Brown, Brent Bundick, Nida Çakır Melek, Elior Cohen, Thomas Cook, Karlye Dilts Stedman, Andrew Glover, Johannes Matschke, Yusuf Mercan, Jordan Pandolfo, A. Lee Smit.
[01/31/2025] We enjoyed hosting the 30th Annivesary of MMM from September 6-8, 2024 at Purdue University. Thanks to the co-chairs of the conference, Seungki Hong and Seunghoon Na and the program committees from Purdue: Joshua Chan, Mario Crucini, Peter Hansen, Aaron Hedlund, Mohitosh Kejriwal, Dejanir Silva, Anson Soderbery, Cathy Zhang and Indiana University: Gerhard Glomm, Bulent Guler, Rupal Kamdar, Christian Matthes, Daniela Puzzello, Peter Rangazas, Todd Walker.
Special gratitude is also extended to the plenary speakers:
Stephanie Schmitt-Grohé
Professor of Economics, Columbia University
Lee Ohanian
Professor of Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
[06/04/2024] We thank our colleagues at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond for hosting the Spring MMM this past May. On behalf of the entire "Midwest" macroeconomics community, thanks to the program co-chairs: Grey Gordon (FRB, Richmond) and Christopher Herrington (VCU) as well as the entire program committee: Luis Alberto Baldomero-Quintana, Katarina Borovickova, Chadwick C. Curtis, Leland Edward Farmer, Kinda Hachem, Paul Ho, Marios Karabarbounis, Oleg Korenok, Claudia Macaluso, Saif Mekhari, Nicolas Morales, Emily Moschini, Carol Scotese, Bruno Sultanum, Nathaniel A Throckmorton, Andrea Waddle and Chen Yeh.
Special gratitude is also extended to the plenary speakers:
Nobuhiro Kiyotaki
Harold H. Helm 1920 Professor of Economics and Banking, Princeton University
Emi Nakamura
E. Morris Cox Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
[11/14/2023] We thank our colleagues at Texas Tech University for hosting the Fall MMM this past November. On behalf of the entire "Midwest" macroeconomics community, thanks to the department chair, Rashid Al-Hmoud and program committee members, Xiaohan Ma, Latchezar Popov, Salem Abo-Zaid, Frank Ciarliero, Benjamin Keen, Kundan Kishor, and Julian Ludwig.
Special gratitude is also extended to the plenary speakers:
Lutz Killian, Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, who spoke on the topic: "Oil Price Shocks and Inflation."
Marina Azzimonti, Senior Economist and Research Advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Director of the Center for Advancing Women in Economics (AWE) and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, who spoke on the topic: "Policies, Politics and the Macroeconomy."
[07/12/2023] We thank our colleagues at Clemson University for hosting the Spring MMM this past May. On behalf of the entire "Midwest" macroeconomics community, thanks to the department chair, Scott Baier, program committee members: Robert Tamura, Aspen Gorry, Santiago Caicado, Cheng Chen, Gerarld Dwyer and Michal Jerzmanowski.
Special gratitude is also extended to the plenary speakers:
Ufuk Akcigit
Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics and the College, University of Chicago
Laura Veldkamp
Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University
[12/19/2022] We thank our colleagues at Southern Methodist University for hosting the MMM this past November, the second meeting of MMM since the COVID lock-down. On behalf of the entire "Midwest" macroeconomics community, thanks to Mike Sposi (Chair), the SMU faculty team, Nathan Balke, Klaus Desmet, Rocio Madera, Omer Ozak, Nate Pattison and Carlos Zarazaga and the Dallas Fed team, Anton Cheremukhin, Scott Davis, Sewon Hur, Lucie Lebeau, Enrique Martinez-Garcia, Karel Mertens, Christopher Otrok, Michael Sposi, Fang Yang and Kei-Mu Yi.
[06/08/2022] We want to acknowledge our return from COVID lock-down with the Spring MMM at Utah State University this past May. On behalf of the entire "Midwest" macroeconomics community, thanks to co-chairs Frank Caliendo and Aaron Hedlund and program committee members Katarzyna Bilicka, James Feigenbaum, Scott Findley, Matthew Jaremski, Sepideh Raei, Ayse Sapci and Jason Smith.
