The Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston regularly hosts “Fridays at the Fed” workshops. These events bring together economists from the greater Boston area with Boston Fed researchers and policymakers to discuss research broadly related to monetary policy. A Call for Papers is extended for each workshop. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome, and work in early stages is especially welcome. The aim of the event is to foster interaction, give each other feedback and discuss trends in research that may be of broad interest to policymakers.

Workshop attendance is by invitation only. If you are an economist located in (or planning to visit) the Greater Boston area and would like to receive emailed updates related to the workshops, please send an email to: bos.res.workshop@bos.frb.org. Please provide your name, title, and affiliation.

Past workshop presentations (sample):

February 13, 2026

• Discretionary Spending is the Cycle, and Why it Matters for Monetary Policy (Michelle Andreolli, Boston College)

• Dynamic Pricing under Information Frictions: Evidence from Firm-level Subjective Expectations (Luca Gagliardone, Yale University)

• Why Do Supply Disruptions Lead to Inflation? Survey Evidence from the COVID Pandemic, (JP L’Huillier, Brandeis University)

• The Future in Today’s Prices: Evidence from Trade Policy Shocks (Raphael Schoenle, Brandeis University)

December 12, 2025 (featuring job market papers)

• Depreciation and Growth: Evidence from Machine Repair in Uganda, Tilman Graff (Harvard University)

• Mortgage Lock and House Prices, Justin Katz (Harvard University)

• How Firms Form Beliefs and the Implications for Inflation, Hugo Monnery (Harvard University)

• The Macro Impact of the Debt Inflation Channel on Investment, Zixing Guo (Boston University)

• Reassessing Central Bank Reputation Beyond Long-Run Expectations, Pedro Martinez (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

• Monopsony with Dynamic Wage Contracts, Arthur Wickard (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

September 26, 2025

• Tracking the Short-Run Price Impact of U.S. Tariffs: Alberto Cavallo (Harvard Business School), Paola Llamas (Universidad de San Andres), Franco Vazquez (Universidad de San Andres)

• The Macroeconomic Implications of the Gen-AI economy: Pablo Guerron Quintana (Boston College), Tomoaki Mikami (Boston College), Jaromir Nosal (Boston College)

• Monetary Policy and Local Fiscal Policy: Kerry Siani (Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management) and Jinyuan Zhang (University of California Los Angeles)