MN Macro 2026

The Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory is a workshop on dynamic macroeconomic theory sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the University of Minnesota and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. It is held on the campus of the University of Minnesota.

The 2026 conference will last for three days, from

Wednesday, July 29 through Friday, July 31, 2026. 

If you are interested in presenting, please submit your paper by Friday April 24, 2026 using this form:

https://forms.gle/vqCbXq87iwmzqURS7 

Details on the program, travel, hotel, and other administrative details will be posted on this website as we get closer to the date of the conference.  

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The schedule will include roughly 14 talks. There will also be ample time for informal discussions among the participants. We request that all participants attend the entire three days of the conference.

Alessandra Fogli (Minneapolis Fed) and Pablo Kurlat (University of Southern California) are the program organizers for this year's conference. We welcome papers in a variety of areas. Examples of topics of interest include:

Asset Pricing from a General Equilibrium Perspective

Consumption and Income Dynamics

Credit and Fluctuations

Depressions and Crises

Dynamics of Income and Wealth Distributions

Dynamics with Heterogeneous Agents

Dynamics of Housing

Dynamics of Human Capital 

International Macroeconomics

International Trade and Geography

Labor Market Dynamics

Macroeconomics of Demographic Change, Families, and Health

Monetary and Fiscal Policy 

Optimal Policy

Politics and Growth

Technological Change, Organizations, and Growth

Papers in other areas are welcome as well. The final topics will be determined in large part by the interests of the participants. 

Please feel free to pass news of this conference on to other potentially interested people.