NSF LogoNSF Award Abstract - #0242282 AWSFL008-DS3

Summer Workshop Modeling (July 2003,2004,2005 Minneapolis, MN)

NSF Org SES
Latest Amendment Date June 25, 2004
Award Number 0242282
Award Instrument Continuing grant
Program Manager Daniel H. Newlon
SES DIVN OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC SCIENCES
SBE DIRECT FOR SOCIAL, BEHAV & ECONOMIC SCIE
Start Date July 1, 2003
Expires June 30, 2006 (Estimated)
Expected Total Amount $89775 (Estimated)
Investigator Larry E. Jones lej@atlas.socsci.umn.edu (Principal Investigator current)
Nancy L. Stokey (Co-Principal Investigator current)
Sponsor U of Minnesota-Twin Cities
450 McNamara Alumni Center
Minneapolis, MN 554552070 612/624-5599
NSF Program 1320 ECONOMICS
Field Application
Program Reference Code ,0000,OTHR,

Abstract

This project consists of a series of workshops to be hosted jointly by the University of Minnesota and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis during the summers of 2003, 2004 and 2005. Each workshop is one week long, concentrating on theoretical issues in macroeconomics and dynamic economic modeling. These workshops continue the series sponsored by the NSF at the University of Minnesota during 2000-02 and at Northwestern University during 1990-99. Specific topics for the three years will vary, depending on research interests of the participants. Topics in recent years have included: monetary theory, searching and matching models of labor market dynamics, technical change and technology adoption, asset pricing, macroeconomic consequences of contracting frictions and financial market incompleteness, fiscal policy, business cycles, government policy in the absence of commitment, methods for analyzing models with heterogeneous agents, and political economy issues in the choice of aggregate policy.

Intellectual Merit: This series has provided a valuable forum for researchers working on substantive and methodological issues in theoretical macroeconomics, broadly defined. It has provided both an outlet for the formal presentation and intensive discussion of recent papers and an opportunity for informal discussions outside the seminar room among researchers working in related areas.

Broader Impact: The organizers have made a concerted effort to choose program committees each year that will reach a broad spectrum of theoretical macroeconomists, and the program committees have made a strong effort to identify and include young researchers. This workshop series is one of the few with an emphasis on the theoretical side of macroeconomics and dynamic economic modeling, and provides a useful opportunity for discussions among researchers representing somewhat distinct intellectual traditions.


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