Scientific Committee
 | Veronica Guerrieri, University of Chicago |
 | Anil Kashyap, University of Chicago |
The 2025 Macroeconomic Policy Perspectives, hosted by the Becker Friedman Institute at the University of Chicago in collaboration with JPE Macro, will be held October 16-17, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. The event will include the presentation of 6/7 papers plus a policy panel with leading experts and policy makers. Papers presented at the conference will undergo a standard peer-review process and, if accepted, will be included in a special volume of Journal Political Economy (JPE) Macroeconomics. The submissions will be overseen by guest editors Veronica Guerrieri and Anil Kashyap.
The global economy recently experienced significant inflationary pressures that have exposed vulnerabilities in economic systems worldwide. Policymakers around the world have responded with numerous actions that aim to reduce inflation while sustaining economic growth. The resurgence of inflation has raised important questions about the transmission of monetary and fiscal policies, as well as the broader economic structures that influence price stability. This conference brings together researchers from around the world to discuss recent work on the macroeconomic causes and consequences of inflation. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:
- Monetary policy and inflation dynamics
- Fiscal policy and inflation dynamics
- Global inflationary dynamics
- The role of supply and demand shocks
- The cost of disinflation
- Inflation and the labor market
- Inflation and business investment
- Inflation and supply chains
- Inflation and political economy
- Long-term impact of inflationary episodes
Finished papers will be preferred but extended abstracts will be considered.
Authors of selected papers will be notified in July, 2025. Funds to assist with travel and lodging expenses are available for the presenters of accepted papers. Presenters are expected to attend the full conference. If you cannot attend the full conference, please note your availability in your submission.
Please submit papers for consideration by May 31, 2025 using the link below. If you have any questions, please email bfi-events@uchicago.edu.
Submission Process, Rules, and Timeline
- Please send an electronic version of the paper in PDF format via the form below. There is no charge for submissions. The deadline for submissions is May 31, 2025. If the form does not work with your system, send your submission via email to BFI-events@uchicago.edu
- A submitted paper must not be under review at another journal or at JPE Macroeconomics.
- Submissions will be reviewed by the conference scientific committee. Paper selection will be finalized, and accepted authors notified, by the end of June 2025.
- Authors will have to send a complete draft of the paper to conference organizers by September 14, 2025, and will have to submit their paper to JPE Macro by January 31st, 2026. Accepted papers will be published in the December 2026 issue of JPE Macro.