This conference is co-sponsored and hosted by Vanderbilt University. This conference focuses on the role
labor markets play in determining broader macroeconomic outcomes. Bringing together a diverse group
of researchers studying both new labor datasets and new theories of the labor market, the conference
goal is to broaden understanding of how labor market outcomes are affected by and contribute to both
short-run business cycles and long-run economic trends. Participants will consider both aggregate
labor market outcomes and how macroeconomic forces disproportionately impact individual workers and
firms across the wage, income, skill, and productivity distributions. Discussions arising from
this conference will help inform policymakers seeking both aggregate labor market stability and more
equitable labor market outcomes for a diverse set of both workers and employers.
The conference organizers are Adam Blandin (Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University),
Kathleen McKiernan (Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University), and Nick Pretnar
(Assistant Director, UCSB-LAEF).
The University at Albany, SUNY, the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at University of California,
Santa Barbara, and the the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland are organizing a conference on demographics and
the macroeconomy to be held in Albany, NY, on April 11th and 12th, 2025. The focus of the conference is heterogeneity
in group-level outcomes. The submission portal for this conference closed on January 3, 2025, and the organizers have
already selected the papers. The organizers are Benjamin Griffy (Assistant Professor, University at Albany), John
Bailey Jones (Vice President of Microeconomic Analysis, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), Karen Kopecky (Federal
Reserve Bank of Cleveland), Nick Pretnar (Assistant Director, UCSB-LAEF), and Eric Young (Professor, University of Virginia).
This workshop is sponsored by Universidade de Vigo and funded by LAEF at UCSB. It caters to PhD students from European
institutions who will be on the job market during the 2025-26 academic year. We also accept submissions from students
in Europe at earlier stages of the PhD and other (very) early career economists in Europe. The aim of the workshop is
to offer young researchers interested in macroeconomics a forum for presentation and discussion of research papers
representing both theoretical and empirical advances in macroeconomics. The submission portal is currently open, and
interested scholars should see the submission guidelines at the following link in order to upload a draft of the paper
they wish to submit: https://workshop.webs.uvigo.es/pdfs/WDM_Call.pdf. The scientific committee consists of co-chairs
Arpad Abraham (University of Bristol) and Franck Portier (University College London), as well as Jaime Alonso Carrera
(Universaded de Vigo), Juan Carlos Conesa (Stony Brook University), Antonia Diaz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid),
Sergio Feijoo Moreira (University of Bristol), Timothy Kehoe (University of Minnesota), Finn Kydland (UCSB and LAEF),
Omar Licandro (University of Leicester), Nick Pretnar (Assistant Director, UCSB-LAEF), and Jose Victor Rios Rull (University of Pennsylvania).
The Laboratory for Aggregate Economics (LAEF) at UC-Santa Barbara is proud to co-sponsor the 4th Annual Junior Workshop
in Macroeconomics along with the NYU Stern School of Business. We bring together junior researchers across various
subfields of macroeconomics to present and discuss papers relevant for both theory and policy. The academic organizers
are Job Boerma (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Paolo Martellini (NYU Stern), and Nick Pretnar (Assistant Director, UCSB-LAEF).
The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at the
University of California Santa Barbara will hold the 14th conference on Advances in Macro-Finance, designed to bring
together leading scholars in the field. The conference will consist of selected papers with a formal discussant for each paper.
The focus of the conference is on research at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. We welcome both theoretical and
empirical research on topics including, but not limited to: impact of financial and investment frictions; labor markets; credit
risk and corporate financing; models of risk premia; determinants of income and wealth inequality; household finance; and taxation.
Preference will be given to recent papers that have not previously been presented at major conference. A call for papers will open in summer of 2025,
