Macroeconomic Policy Perspectives Conference 2026

The conference was held at Stanford University in Stanford, California.

The conference was aimed at macroeconomics researchers, both empirical and theoretical, with research interests in trade policy, growth, innovation, supply chains, and structural economic change.

The 2026 conference was scheduled to focus on the long-run implications of deglobalization.

The conference was billed as six papers and a policy panel with leading experts and policymakers.

Paper submission was via Google Form in PDF format at no charge. The submission deadline was May 31, 2026. Drafts were due to discussants by September 15, 2026; final papers are due to the Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics by January 31, 2027. Accepted papers are slated to appear in the December 2027 issue of the Journal of Political Economy: Macroeconomics.

The conference welcomed papers on international trade and reallocation, growth and innovation, idea diffusion, supply chains, resource misallocation, structural change, inequality, sovereign debt and financial fragmentation, and geopolitics and policy.

Juliane Begenau (Stanford GSB), Pete Klenow (Stanford Economics), and Chris Tonetti (Stanford GSB) organize the conference. Inquiries can be sent to macropolicyperspectives@gmail.com.

It was most useful for macroeconomics researchers working on trade, growth and deglobalization, since the day had six papers that went through JPE Macroeconomics review plus a policy panel, and it was organized by Stanford faculty Juliane Begenau, Pete Klenow and Chris Tonetti. Practitioners wanting broad networking or applied training would have gotten less, as the format was a small paper-based research workshop.

Academic economics workshops usually call for casual business attire, such as slacks or chinos with a shirt or sweater. Stanford in October is mild and dry, so light layers are enough.