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. 

Past workshop presentations:

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)

April 18, 2025

• Cyclical Returns to Scale and the Slopes of the Phillips Curve: ChaeWon Baek, Tufts University (co-authored with Byoungchan Lee, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

• How Important is Household Heterogeneity for Monetary Policy: Ryan Westphal, Brandeis University (co-authored with Adam Jørring, University of Massachusetts Amherst)

• Expectations and the Term Structure of Interest Rates: Alireza Tahbaz-Salehi, Northwestern University (co-authored with Andrea Vedolin, Boston University and Pooya Molavi, Northwestern University)

• Treasury Market Dysfunction and the Role of the Central Bank: Jonathan Wallen, Harvard Business School (co-authored with Anil K. Kashyap, University of Chicago, Jeremy C. Stein, Harvard University, and Joshua Younger, Columbia University)