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BFI News Dec 2, 2019

Macro Finance Research Program Announces 11 Previous MFM Fellowship Awardees are Currently on the Job Market

The Macro Finance Research Program (MFR) is pleased to announce that eleven of its previous Macro Financial Modeling (MFM) project dissertation fellowship awardees are currently on the job market.
BFI News Dec 4, 2018

MFR Program Announces 13 Previous MFM Fellowship Awardees are Currently on the Job Market

The Macro Finance Research Program (MFR) is pleased to announce that thirteen of its previous Macro Financial Modeling (MFM) dissertation fellowship awardees are currently on the job market. These doctoral students were...
BFI News Jul 31, 2018

Students Convene for the 2018 MFM Summer Session for Young Scholars at Cape Cod, MA

The Macro Financial Modeling Project’s summer session is designed for early-career professionals and doctoral students in economics and related fields who are interested in developing enhanced macroeconomic models with linkages to...
BFI News Jun 13, 2018

Commentary – MFM Launches First Summer Session for Young Scholars

Many years ago I participated in a project supported by the National Research Council that was designed to nurture linkages between mathematics and the sciences. Through this experience I...
BFI News Jun 13, 2018

MFM Initiative To Host Summer Session for Macrofinancial Scholars

Four day program will bring together scholars, policymakers and central bankers to focus on bolstering skills of outstanding students.
Topics:  Financial Markets
BFI News Feb 12, 2018

State vs. Shadow: From the Macro Financial Modeling Winter 2018 Meeting

In January 2018, the Macro Finance Research Program (MFR) and in collaboration with MIT’s Laboratory for Financial Engineering, hosted economists from around the world to, in part, investigate issues related...
BFI News Mar 23, 2015

The Present and The Future of Macroeconomic Modeling

As a capstone encompassing three years of exploration of improved macroeconomic models to guide monetary policy, this MFM meeting featured two broad-based comparisons of available and emerging models. Other...