2026 NBER Summer Institute
July 13 to July 31, 2026 — Cambridge, MAX
The 49th Annual NBER Summer Institute will be held in Cambridge, MA from July 13 to July 31, 2026. The meetings will be held in person with a livestream available for most sessions on YouTube.
There will be workshops on the following topics. Dates for each workshop and additional information can be found on the detailed meeting calendar.
| Asset Pricing | Industrial Organization |
| Conference on Research in Income and Wealth | International Economics and Geopolitics |
| Corporate Finance | International Finance and Macroeconomics |
| Development Economics | International Trade and Investment |
| Development of the American Economy | International Trade and Macroeconomics |
| Frontier Econometric Methods | Labor Economics |
| Economic Fluctuations and Growth | Law and Economics |
| Economics of Aging | Macro, Money and Financial Frictions |
| Economics of Children and Families | Macro Public Finance |
| Economics of Crime | Monetary Economics |
| Economics of Education | Personnel Economics |
| Economics of Health | Political Economy |
| Economics of AI, IT, and Digitization | Productivity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship |
| Economics of Real Estate | Public Economics |
| Environmental and Energy Economics | Real Estate and Urban Economics |
| Financial Market Structure | Science of Science Funding |
| Gender in the Economy | Social Security |
| Household Finance |
The Economic Fluctuations and Growth program will host a number of focused meetings including Behavioral Macroeconomics, Capital Markets and the Economy, Dynamic Equilibrium Models, Economic Growth, Forecasting Methods, Impulse and Propagation Mechanisms, Inequality and Macro, Macro within and across Borders, Micro and Macro Perspectives on the Labor Market, and Micro Data and Macro Models.
To be considered for presentation, submissions must be uploaded by 11:59pm (EST) on Thursday, March 26, 2026. Submissions of both empirical and theoretical papers, from scholars who are early in their careers and from researchers with and without NBER affiliations, are welcome. Papers may be submitted to at most two workshops, and may only be presented in one. While most meeting organizers will consider early-stage papers as well as completed manuscripts, the Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Development, Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Economics of Health, Energy and Environmental Economics, Law and Economics, Monetary Economics, and Political Economy meetings will only consider completed papers. Submissions to the Economics of Health workshop may be considered for either full-length or shorter presentations; please indicate a preference on the front page of the submitted manuscript.
The NBER will provide continental breakfast and lunch for all participants but cannot cover travel or lodging expenses for authors who are invited to present papers.
The NBER does not tolerate any form of discrimination or harassment at its meetings. All Summer Institute participants are required to read and attest to comply with the NBER Conference Code of Conduct.
Please address any questions about these meetings to Rob Shannon (rshannon@nber.org) in the NBER Conference Department.