Frontiers of Macroeconomics

A Conference Recognizing Martin Eichenbaum's Contributions to Economics

The Chicago Fed sponsored this conference organized by Lawrence Christiano, Northwestern University and Chicago Fed consultant, and Jonas Fisher, Chicago Fed, to be held on October 10-11, 2014. We are pleased to have Frank Smets of the European Central Bank as our keynote speaker. Charles Evans of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago will introduce him. The program included presentations of eight papers with discussants. Presenters along with their discussants included the following:

• Mark Gertler, New York University, discussed by Jordi Gali, Universitat Pompeu Fabra
• Robert Hall, Stanford University, discussed by Susanto Basu, Boston College
• Lars Hansen, University of Chicago, discussed by Martin Schneider, Stanford University
• Per Krusell, Stockholm University, discussed by Victor Rios-Rull, University of Minnesota
• Valerie Ramey, University of California—San Diego, discussed by Richard Rogerson, Princeton University
• Thomas Sargent, New York University, discussed by John Leahy, New York University
• Christopher Sims, Princeton University, discussed by Marco Bassetto, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and University College London
• Mike Woodford, Columbia University, discussed by Mirko Wiederholt, Goethe University Frankfurt