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Yes, we interviewed about 5 candidates for a macro position. The international economics position was canceled due to funding (and possibly because a faculty member is returning from a year long hiatus in Brazil).
Aspen Gorry (Chicago) accepted our offer. There were no interviews of monetary people this year. Surprisingly, alot of the "macro" people interviewed seemed more political economy or international econ focused.
Yes, the possible monetary sequence seemed to excite alot of the grad students. Right now, there is a macro (ie. mostly monetary) workshop run by Walsh and Ravenna. That will likely be replaced with the course sequence. The department had also planned to have someone from the San Fran fed come in to teach a mini course in monetary-appropriate econometrics for this spring quarter, but that has been cancelled.
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