Enrique Mendoza is the Presidential Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. His work concentrates on financial crises and fiscal policy, in particular in an international context.

Fatih Guvenen is Professor of Economics at the University of Minnesota. His research is concerned with the income risk and the income distribution of households.

Marcus Hagedorn is Professor of Economics at the University of Oslo. Iourii Manovski is a Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Their research interests are at the intersection of macroeconomics and labor economics

Marcus Hagedorn is Professor of Economics at the University of Oslo. Iourii Manovski is a Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Their research interests are at the intersection of macroeconomics and labor economics

Greg Kaplan is a Assistant Professor of Economics at Princeton University. His research interests are in applied macroeconomics. Guido Menzio is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. His focus is on macroeconomic applications of search theory

James Bullard is President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. His research focuses on learning in macroeconomics.

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh is Professor of Finance at New York University's Stern School of Business. His research interests lie in housing, macroeconomics, and finance.

Frank Schorfheide is Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is interested in the estimation of DSGE models, Bayesian methods, vector autoregressions.

Robert Lucas is Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago. Recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize, his research focuses on macroeconomics.