The Minnesota Workshop in Macroeconomic Theory is a workshop on dynamic macroeconomic theory sponsored by the National Science Foundation, the University of Minnesota and the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. It is held on the campus of the University of Minnesota every summer in late July/early August. The 2008 conference will last for four days, from Tuesday, July 29, through Friday, August 1. The schedule will be quite intense, with about 15 talks. There will also be ample time for informal discussion among the participants. We hope that all participants will stay the entire week.

We welcome papers in a variety of areas. Examples of topics of interest include: Asset Pricing from a General Equilibrium Perspective Demographic Evolution and its Economic Determinants Depressions and Crises Dynamics of the Income Distribution Dynamics of the Labor Market Dynamics with Heterogeneous Agents International Trade and Macroeconomics Monetary Theory/Policy and Welfare Politics and Growth Search and Matching Theory and Applications Technological Change and Growth Theory of Organizations We welcome papers in other areas as well. The final topics will be determined in large part by the interests of the participants. Note that while the title of the Workshop includes "Theory," investigations of data that are guided by theory are more than welcome. The organizers for the 2008 conference are Tim Kehoe (University of Minnesota) and Matthias Doepke (Northwestern University). If you are interested in presenting a paper, please send a copy to both of the organizers, (addresses below) by April 30. Electronic submissions are welcome as long as they are in a proper (and working) .pdf format. We will be able to pay travel and housing expenses for all speakers. Please feel free to pass news of this conference on to other potentially interested parties.   Timothy J. Kehoe Matthias Doepke Department of Economics Department of Economics University of Minnesota Northwestern University 1035 Heller Hall 302 Arthur Andersen Hall 271 - 19th Avenue S 2001 Sheridan Road Minneapolis, MN 55455 Evanston, IL 60208-2600     tkehoe@umn.edu doepke@econ.ucla.edu