What is LAEF?

Furthering research in growth
and fluctuations of aggregate economies.


2nd Annual Junior Workshop in Macroeconomics

October 20-21, 2023

The Laboratory for Aggregate Economics (LAEF) at UC-Santa Barbara is proud to host the 2nd Annual Junior Workshop in Macroeconomics. 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, Paolo Martellini, both Assistant Professors of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Nick Pretnar, Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Winter 2023

In this issue: 1st Annual Junior Workshop in Macroeconomics & Racial Inequality in Macroeconomcis

Autumn 2022

In this issue: Growth, Development and Structural Transformation & 2nd Annual MEBDI Fall Conference on Big Data in Macroeconomics

Summer 2022

In this issue: XXV Workshop in Dynamic Macroeconomics & Aging and Healthcare in the Macroeconomy