Upcoming Events

To encourage the exchange of new ideas and fresh perspectives, the Institute hosts a robust schedule of conferences, lectures, and workshops featuring leading scholars from around the world.

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June 23–27	Price Theory Summer Camp*
June 24– July 12	Economics Research Experience for Undergraduates
July 22–23	Networks in Macroeconomics and Finance
September 26–27	The Empirical Foundations of Supply-Side Economics

*Conferences marked with an asterisk are planned as part of our multi-year research initiatives.

Recent Events

Evaluating Developing Nations’ Financial Systems

In a talk for graduate students, Distinguished Fellow Robert Townsend showed how to use theory combined with household level data to evaluate the benefits of economic policies.

John Cochrane Talk: The Role of Monetary Policy, Revisited

Professor John Cochrane shares his thoughts about what monetary policy can and ca’t do and should and shouldn’t do.

Recent Research Conferences

• The Recession of 2007 to ?
  
• Financial Markets and Contracts
  
• Constitutional Design and the Scope of Authority*
  
• Federal Reserve Presidents Panel Discussion for Undergraduates
  
• Macroeconomic Lecture Series
  
• Recent Developments in The Economics of Home Production and Nonmarket Work*
  
• Creditors and Corporate Governance*
  
• Chicago Initiative in Theory and Empirics (CITE)
  
• Initiative for Computational Economics Conference
  
• Matching Problems: Economics Meets Mathematics
  
• Macroeconomic Fragility*
  
• Biological Basis of Economic Preferences and Behavior
  
• Fiscal Policy under Fiscal Imbalance*
  
• Advances with Field Experiments*