Welcome to the web site for the conference of macroeconomists from liberal arts colleges. The conference brings together researchers from liberal arts colleges with interests in macroeconomics and finance.
If you are interested in joining the Macroeconomists at Liberal Arts Colleges group, please email Maria Olivero at moliver1@swarthmore.edu.
2026 Conference Information
The 2026 conference will be held August 5 to 7 at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, sponsored by St. Olaf College and Carleton College. We plan on a full day for Wednesday and Thursday, with the conference concluding before lunch on Friday the 7th. The conference will be held on St. Olaf’s campus in Northfield, Minnesota. Northfield is a 45 minute drive from the Minneapolis -St. Paul airport. The conference serves as an opportunity for faculty (including non-tenure-track faculty) at liberal arts colleges to present work in a collegial, friendly environment and to participate in professional development. We are unlikely to accept submissions that do not have a current or incoming liberal arts faculty member as an author. In an effort to include as many participants as possible, we are also unlikely to accept multiple papers with the same presenting author.
We invite you to submit research papers to present at the conference by filling out this form: https://forms.gle/3wWwGnvCo381eUXm7
We plan to hold two types of sessions:
1. Traditional conference presentations of completed or near-complete papers
2. Workshop sessions for presenting early/partially completed work.
Conference registration and lodging information will come at a later date. There is no registration or submission fee. The deadline for paper submission is Friday May 15th.
Subgroup Information
We currently have eight different interest sub-groups for Liberal Arts Macroeconomists. If you have not yet joined a group and are interested in joining one of the groups, please contact the leader, who is listed below.
Group Leader Leader email address
Business Cycles Konstantin Platonov Konstantin.Platonov@lmu.edu
Finance Caleb Stroup castroup@davidson.edu
Growth Manisha Goel manisha.goel@pomona.edu
International Macro Mishita Mehra mishita.mehra@richmond.edu
Menna Bizuneh Fikru Menna_Bizuneh@pitzer.edu
Labor / Household Rob Lester rblester@colby.edu
Monetary Policy Dean Croushore dcrousho@richmond.edu
Search Theory Fan Liang fan.liang@lmu.edu
Theory / Applied Theory Erin Cottle Hunt erinc@reed.edu
Questions?
You can send a question about the groups or the conference to Maria Olivero at: moliver1@swarthmore.edu
Steering Committee
The current steering committee for the group is:
Pubali Chakraborty (Bates)
Dean Croushore (Richmond)
Amy Guisinger (Lafayette)
Allison Luedtke (St. Olaf)
Shannon Mudd (Haverford)
Maria Pia Olivero (Swarthmore)
Konstantin Platonov (Loyola Marymount)
Kristina Sargent (Middlebury)
Ethan Struby (Carleton)
Click here to see programs for past conferences