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 2009 conference will last for four days, from Tuesday, July 28 through Friday July 31. 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    Credit and Fluctuations    Demographic Evolution and its Economic Determinants    Depressions and Crises    Dynamics of the Income Distribution    Dynamics of the Labor Market    Dynamics of Housing    International Trade and Macroeconomics    Monetary Theory/Policy and Welfare    Recursive Equilibria    Politics and Growth    Positive Theory of Policy    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. It is important to 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 2009 conference are Michael Golosov (MIT)  and José-Víctor Ríos-Rull (University of  Minnesota). 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. José-Víctor Ríos-Rull Mike Golosov Department of Economics Department of Economics University of Minnesota MIT 4-101 Hanson Hall 50 Memorial Drive 1925 Fourth Street S Building E52 Room 243G Minneapolis, MN 55455 Cambridge , MA 02142-1347     vr0j@umn.edu golosov@mit.edu