California Macroeconomics Conference at CMC

500 E. Ninth St.,Claremont CA 91711

29 October, 2021

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5th California Macroeconomics Conference at Claremont McKenna College The Lowe Institute of Political Economy at Claremont McKenna College will hold the 5th Annual California Macroeconomics Conference (CMC) on Friday, October 29th. Charles I. Jones, Stanford Graduate School of Business will give the keynote, "Recipes and Economic Growth: A Combinatorial March Down an Exponential Tail" at the Marian Miner Cook Athenaeum at CMC. Registration is open to all California economists. Registration is free. Breakfast, lunch, snacks, happy hour, and parking is included. Link to 2021 program. The program consists of six selected papers with discussants. The previous year's conference program can be accessed here: 2019 Program. Morning sessions are held in Pickford Auditorium in Bauer Center; afternoon sessions held in Freeberg Forum in Kravis Center. Organizers: Andy Atkeson (UCLA), Ricardo Fernholz (Claremont McKenna College), Yuriy Gorodnichenko (UC Berkeley), Galina Hale (UC Santa Cruz), Nicolas Petrosky-Nadeau (Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco), and Johannes Wieland (UC San Diego) The Lowe Institute of Political Economy has three main goals.  Our first goal is to provide students with opportunities to apply, in a supervised environment, their textbook knowledge of economics to complex problems in fields ranging from academic research to policy consulting to corporate development.  Our second goal is to promote continuing education of faculty to renew their expertise and heighten their scholarly impact.  Our third goal is to raise the profile of Claremont McKenna College.