Green Line Macro Meeting

The Departments of Economics at Boston College and Boston University will again host a series of one day research meetings on macroeconomics during the academic year 2008-2009, following a successful set of meetings during 2007-2008.

Macroeconomics is defined very broadly for the purpose of this conference: it can include submissions in banking, economic growth, economic history, financial economics, public finance, international trade and finance, monetary economics, and time series econometrics as long these contain a substantial aggregative component.

2008-2009	Submission deadline	Decision on submissions	Meeting Date
Early Fall at BU	Friday, September 5	Friday, September 12	Friday, September 19
Late Fall at BC			Friday, November 7 or 14
Spring

Meetings in 2007-2008	Submission deadline	Decision on submissions	Meeting Date
Fall at BC	Friday, August 31	Friday, September 7	Friday, September 21
Winter at BU	Friday, November 16	Friday, November 23	Friday, December 7
Spring	Friday, April 11	Friday, April 18	Friday, May 2

Paper submissions are encouraged from junior (non-tenured) faculty and graduate students at the two universities. All graduate student submissions must be accompanied by a brief note from the student's thesis advisor, requesting consideration of the paper for the meeting.

The expectation is that paper submissions will be at a quality level suitable for external conferences: early drafts are to be presented in each department's internal workshops.

Collaborative submissions are welcome from graduate students and junior faculty. However, graduate student work that is collaborative with senior faculty cannot be included in the program.

Poster submissions are encouraged from graduate students at the two universities: all paper submissions will automatically be considered for the poster session, but students may also submit a 10 page research outline describing the material that will be on the poster. As with a paper submission, a note from the thesis advisor must be attached.. During the informal lunch, students will have an opportunity to display their research in progress using a poster or related method. Other graduate students and faculty from the two universities will visit poster locations of interest to them.

Decisions: A list of accepted papers and poster submissions will be announced one or two weeks before each meeting, as per the schedule above. No submission will be accepted without unanimous approval by the program committee. If a particular meeting date does not generate enough high quality submissions, then the meeting will be simply be shorter.

Meeting format: The meeting will use a slight modification of the standard NBER EFG format. Each paper will have one hour's worth of presentation time: 30 minutes for author, 20 minutes for discussant, 10 minutes for general discussion. There will be a maximum of 5 papers presented at each meeting.

Program committee: The program committee consists of senior faculty from Boston College and Boston University. The program committee for the 2008-2009 academic year is Susanto Basu (susanto.basu@bc.edu); Peter Ireland (irelandp@bc.edu); Simon Gilchrist (sgilchri@bu.edu); and Robert King (rking@bu.edu)

Meeting Schedule: The meetings will generally run from 9:45 am to 4:45 pm. Detailed schedule information can be seen by looking at the examples of previous meetings using hyperlinks above.