Conference on Microeconomic Perspectives on Aggregate Phenomena, Northwestern University, August 1988

这项提案要求为将于1988年8月在西北大学举行的“总体现象的微观经济观点”会议提供经费。可能包括的主题是劳动力市场和跨期合同问题、金融市场，重点是安全结构的内生选择、长期增长及其决定因素和宏观经济协调问题。这些都是非常活跃的理论研究领域，经验表明，将在“前沿”工作的人聚集在一起将导致富有成效的互动。会议将持续一周（五天），每天举行三次正式研讨会。这组理论主题在宏观经济学中非常重要，但它们往往没有在其他为期一周的小型会议上得到充分讨论。随后的出版物应该为具有共同兴趣的研究人员之间的互动提供更多的机会。

This proposal requests funding for a conference on "Microeconomic Perspectives on Aggregate Phenomena" to be held at Northwestern University during August of 1988. Topics which are likely to be included are labor markets and intertemporal contracting issues, financial markets with an emphasis on endogenous choice of security structure, long-term growth and its determinants and macroeconomic coordination problems. These are all areas of extremely active theoretical research and experience indicates that bringing people together who are working on the "cutting edge" will lead to fruitful interaction. The conference will run for one week (five days) with three formal seminars given on each day. The set of theoretical topics are very important in macroeconomics but they have tended not to be adequately addressed by other week-long conferences of small size. The ensuing publications should yield additional opportunities for interaction between researchers with common interests.