Call for Papers
Macroeconomic Consequences of Micro-Development Policies
Organizers: George Alessandria, Fernando Parro, Joseph Kaboski, Mike Waugh
The Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Conference on Public Policy is now soliciting papers for a conference on “Macroeconomic Consequences of Micro-Development Policies.”
The conference will be held at the University of Rochester on May 8-9, 2026. The papers and comments are slated for publication in the January 2027 issue of the Journal of Monetary Economics.
Many countries use a variety of microeconomic development policies. These policies are often evaluated using microempirical methods, but their goal at scale is to engender better aggregate and/or distributional outcomes. We call for papers that study these kinds of interventions and their aggregate effects.
We welcome studies based on a wide range of microeconomic polices, including (among others) cash grants, infrastructure investments, health or education policies, trade policies, migration subsidies, firm taxation, place- or industry-based policies, agricultural policies, labor-market training or subsidies, or other schemes.
The goal of the conference is to achieve a better understanding of the impact of these kinds of policies on a broad set of aggregate outcomes, including among others:
- Aggregate output, investment, and productivity
- Distributional outcomes including poverty
- Occupational choice, labor supply, and human capital accumulation
- Industrial composition and structural transformation
- Domestic and international trade and specialization
- The spatial distribution of productive activity, output, and income
- Competition and concentration
- Household structure, demographics, and gender inclusion
- Home production and formality
- Government revenue and expenses
We are open to submissions that make use of any rigorous methodology, encompassing a range of empirical, theoretical,and/or quantitative methods, but we particularly encourage approaches that integrate experimental results with macro models.
Proposal Submission
Proposals should be submitted online no later than May 26, 2025 (11:59 p.m. EST). The attached pdf file should be named using the lead author’s surname.
Paper Selection
The editors, in collaboration with the Carnegie-Rochester-NYU Advisory Board, will make the final selection of papers to be included in the conference. The papers should represent original research not published elsewhere. Since the papers are intended for publication, authors will not be able to publish or reprint the work elsewhere without permission of the editors and publisher.
Authors will be notified by June 20, 2025, if their paper has been selected. Please note that the editors will contact authors only if their paper is accepted.