The 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.
(11/14/2023)
We are pleased to announce that the Spring 2024 meeting is being hosted by our colleagues at Virginia Commonwealth University from May 17-19.
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.
[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 grattitude is also extended to the plenary speakers, Lutz Killian and Marrina Azzimonti.
Lutz Killian, Senior Economic Policy Advisor, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Presentation: "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. Presentation: "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.
A special thanks to the plenary speakers, Ufuk Akcigit and Laura Veldkamp.
Ufuk Akcigit is the Arnold C. Harberger Professor of Economics and the College at the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago.
Laura Veldkamp is the Cooperman Professor of Finance and Economics .Columbia Business School, 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.
