May 15 to May 17, 2009

The 2009 Midwest Macroeconomics
Meetings
will be hosted by the Department of Economics at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana from Friday May 15 to Sunday May 17, 2009.  The sessions will start at 1 p.m. on Friday and run until 1 p.m. on Sunday. The conference reception will take place on Saturday, May 16, 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. in the Fine Arts Museum.

The plenary speakers will be Daron Acemoglu (MIT) and Harald Uhlig (University of Chicago). Parallel sessions will include contributed papers.

Paper Submissions
Submissions of a paper or an extended abstract (the former is preferred) can be uploaded to Conference Maker at the following URL: https://editorialexpress.com/conference/MWM2009
The submission deadline is February 28, 2009. We expect to complete the program and notify the authors and participants by March 31, 2009.

Registration
There is a $70 registration fee. Receipts will be issued by email for the registration fee.
Preferred method of payment will be by credit card, though we can accommodate checks. 
We will be unable to accept cash at the time of registration on 5/15.  There will be a registration desk set up in Wylie Hall starting from Friday 5/15 at 11 a.m. Parallel sessions will be held in Wylie Hall. The rooms are equipped with power point projection facilities as well as an overhead transparency projector. Please Click Here to Register.

Airport
Please remember that the nearest airport is in Indianapolis.  (Flying into Bloomington will not be helpful, since you could end up in Illinois or Minnesota).  Information on Shuttle and Limo Service is available in the link  Travel Directions to IU.

Hotels
The two main conference hotels are Indiana Memorial Union and Grant Street Inn.  Links for these two hotels and additional hotels in the area are listed in the link Conference Housing and Area HotelsThe Visitors Bureau information also provides lots of alternatives for restaurants to consider during your visit to Bloomington.