These are 2008 AEA Conference Papers; please see also the full 2008 ASSA Preliminary Program Schedule.
Conference papers will be uploaded as they become available from the authors.

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Steven Durlauf (University of Wisconsin-Madison)


Sunday, January 6, 12:30 PM

Sunday, January 6, 12:30 PM
Session: Complexity and Dynamics in Macroeconomics: Alternatives to the DSGE Models (AEA)
Presiding: David C. Colander (Middlebury College)

Beyond DSGE Models: Towards an Empirically-Based Macroeconomics
David Colander (Middlebury College)
Alan Kirman (GREQAM, Marseille, France)
Peter Howitt (Brown University)
Axel Leijonhufvud (University of California-Los Angeles and University of Trento)
Perry Mehrling (Barnard College)
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New Approaches to Macroeconomics Policy Evaluation
William Brock (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Steven Durlauf (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Modeling Macroeconomics as Open-Ended Dynamic Systems of Interacting Agents
Rob Axtell (George Mason University)
Blake LeBaron (Brandeis University)
Leigh Tesfatsion (Iowa State University)

Allowing the Data to Speak Freely: The Macroeconometrics of the Cointegrated Vector Autoregression
Kevin Hoover (Duke University)
Katarina Juselius (University of Copenhagen)
Soren Johansen (University of Copenhagen)
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