CONFERENCES CMT Conference on Expectations and Behavior May 21, 2026Glickman Conference Center, RLP 1.302B The inaugural California-Michigan-Texas (CMT) Conference on Expectations and Behavior will be held on May 21, 2026. This conference, co-organized by the University of Michigan, UC Berkeley, and UT Austin, will rotate across institutions, beginning this year with UT Austin. We are delighted to welcome Stefanie Stantcheva, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University as the keynote speaker. Conference Program & Map PDF Download Conference Speakers FELIX CHOPRA “Do People Hold Economic Expectations” Personal Website SHIHAN XIE “LLM Survey Framework: Coverage, Reasoning, Dynamics, Identification” Personal Website ALISTAIR MACAULAY “The Causal Effects of Heterogeneous Expectations Formation” Personal Website KEYNOTE SPEAKERSTEFANIE STANTCHEVA “Using Surveys for Macroeconomics Research” Personal Website YUEYUAN MA “Expectations versus Reality in Business Formation” Personal Website HUGO MONNERY “How Firms Form Beliefs and the Implications for Inflation” Personal Website CHOONGRYUL YANG “Attention-Dependent Monetary Transmission to Household Beliefs” Personal Website ESTEBAN VERDUGO “Saving by Consuming: The Intertemporal Behavior of Hand-to-Mouth Households” Personal Website SALMA KHALID “Perceptions of Public Debt and Policy Expectations: Evidence from Cross Country Surveys” Personal Website RYAN RHOLES “When Talk Isn’t Cheap: Inflation Expectations across the Political Cycle” Personal Website
