11th Advances in Macro-Finance Tepper-LAEF Conference at Santa Barbara

The Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance will be hosting 11th conference on Advances in Macro-Finance

April 8, 2022

The Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance at the University of California Santa Barbara will hold the 11th conference on Advances in Macro-Finance, designed to bring together leading scholars in the field. The conference will consist of selected papers with a formal discussant for each paper. The focus of the conference is on research at the intersection of macroeconomics and finance. We welcome both theoretical and empirical research on topics including, but not limited to: the impact of financial and investment frictions; labor markets; credit risk and corporate financing; models of risk premia; determinants of income and wealth inequality; household finance; and taxation. Preference will be given to recent papers that have not previously been presented at major conferences. 

The conference will be held at the Upham Hotel Garden Room. The program begins at 9:00 am Friday morning and ends at 3:00 pm on Saturday. The academic organizers are from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University: Tetiana Davydiuk, Deeksha Gupta, Lars-Alexander Kuehn, and Ariel Zetlin-Jones.