Vienna Macro Café

Our Sponsors for 2025:

• Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS). The institute was founded in 1963 by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Oskar Morgenstern, and is currently under the direction of Holger Bonin  

• Vienna Graduate School of Economics (VGSE) (Maaten Janssen)

• John Deutsch Institute  (Christopher Cotton, Allen Head) 

• Manchester School (Akos Valentinyi) 

Previous Sponsors:

• Institute for Advanced Studies (IHS). (2004-24)

• Vienna Graduate School of Economics (VGSE) (2018-23)

• European Economic Review: Please consider the EER as your first choice of journal for your article! (2013/2015/2017/2018)

• Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (2015-22)

• Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick: Center for Real Estate (2016-17, 21-24)

• James C. Bonbright Center at UGA (21-2022)

• John Deutsch Institute  (2022-2024) 

• Unversity of Bern (2022)

• Manchester School (Akos Valentinyi) (2022-2024)

• Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB).  David and Martin visited IHS (Gabe) in 2003. We were discussing how we should spend our research grant (David Andolfatto and Gabe Lee) from the Austrian National Bank at Cafe Europa. Martin suggested that the part of the Grant should be used to launch our first Vienna Macroeconomics Workshop in 2004: We thought that was a great idea.  

• In 2010, the conference took place in Rome, at the Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance.

The standard protocol in most conferences with discussants restricts questions from the audience during the presentation to be clarifying questions only. This is not the way our conference works. 

• Presenters should be prepared for frequent interruptions and a lively discussion throughout their presentation. The organizers will, of course, ensure that inquisitors do not dwell overly long on the point they wish to discuss. The allotted time for presentation is 45 minutes. Presenters should prepare a slide deck designed for something closer to a 40-minute presentation. 

• Discussants. Discussants will be allotted 15 minutes. The same rules apply to discussants: be prepared to be interrupted if people feel the need to question your interpretations/comments/criticisms. Also, please do not waste time rehashing the presentation. A one page summary of the model should in most cases be sufficient. Much of your thunder may already have been stolen by the audience during the presentation. This is perfectly fine. Just focus on what you believe to be the key substantive points of the paper. Feel free to support or critique audience comments. 

• Audience. We encourage full participation throughout the conference. Be prepared to engage. Please do not open your laptops or check your phones during the presentations or discussions. There will be time during the breaks for you to do this. If you absolutely need to check messages or surf the web during the presentations, please feel welcome to leave the seminar room and return only after you are done. Thank you for your consideration.