In order to further progress on the new Handbook of Macroeconomics, which will be published next year, Harald Uhlig and I, the co-editors of the Handbook, hosted two conferences at Stanford and Chicago in April. Harald and I attended both conferences—three days in each venue—where we heard distinguished macroeconomists present 35 draft chapters and critical commentary on each of those chapters. With many chapters having coauthors there were about 85 presentations in all–way too much to summarize in a short blog though Harald and I plan to write such a summary in the volume’s introduction. Many of the preliminary drafts are posted on the conference web sites at the Hoover Institution at Stanford and and the Becker Friedman Institute at Chicago. Comments for the authors are welcome as final drafts will be prepared in the coming months.
The conferences displayed an amazing display of new and different ideas, which…
View original post 456 more words
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
Recent Comments