Welcome to the web site for the conference of macroeconomists from liberal arts colleges. The conference brings together researchers from liberal arts colleges with interests in macroeconomics and finance.
The 2025 conference will be held in August at Swarthmore College in the Philadelphia area. See the call for papers here: https://blog.richmond.edu/lamacroworkshop/call-for-papers-2025-lamc-at-swarthmore-college/.
If you are interested in joining the group, please email Dean Croushore at dcrousho@richmond.edu.
We currently have seven different interest sub-groups for Liberal Arts Macroeconomists. If you have not yet joined a group and are interested in joining one of the groups, please contact the leader, who is listed below.
| Group | Leader | Leader email address |
| Business Cycles | Konstantin Platonov | Konstantin.Platonov@lmu.edu |
| Finance | Caleb Stroup | castroup@davidson.edu |
| Growth | Manisha Goel | manisha.goel@pomona.edu |
| International Macro | Mishita Mehra | mishita.mehra@richmond.edu |
| Menna Bizuneh Fikru | Menna_Bizuneh@pitzer.edu | |
| Labor / Household | Rob Lester | rblester@colby.edu |
| Monetary Policy | Dean Croushore | dcrousho@richmond.edu |
| Search Theory | Fan Liang | fan.liang@lmu.edu |
| Theory / Applied Theory | Erin Cottle Hunt | erinc@reed.edu |
You can send a question about the groups or the conference to this email address: conference@liberalartsmacro.com
The current steering committee for the group is:
Pubali Chakraborty (Bates)
Dean Croushore (Richmond)
PJ Glandon (Kenyon)
Amy Guisinger (Lafayette)
Allison Luedtke (St. Olaf)
Shannon Mudd (Haverford)
Steve O’Connell (Swarthmore)
Konstantin Platonov (Loyola Marymount)
Ethan Struby (Carleton)