The Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and the Department of Economics at Boston University are organizing a conference on recent developments in macroeconomics and finance. The goal of the conference is to improve our understanding of the linkages between the financial markets and the real economy in light of the recent recession. Both theoretical work and empirical work are welcomed.
Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: financial frictions and their effects on asset prices and the real economy, asset pricing, banking, macro-prudential regulation, credit risk, dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models (DSGE) with risk premia and/or financial frictions, monetary and banking supervisory policy during financial crises (including the effects of quantitative easing policies), sovereign debt, financial stability, liquidity in financial markets, and quantitative corporate finance.

Submission of papers
Interested authors should submit a draft paper in electronic form (PDF format) to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it by June 30th, 2011. The authors of accepted papers will be notified by the end of July 2011. Travel funding is available for presenters and discussants.

Schedule
Friday, Oct. 28 Presentations from 12:00 to 18:00
Dinner at 19:00
Saturday, Oct. 29 Presentations from 9:00 to 13:00

Organizers
José L. Fillat and Ali Ozdagli, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Simon Gilchrist and Francois Gourio, Boston University

History
The program of last year’s conference can be found on:
http://people.bu.edu/fgourio/conference_program.pdf