Macro Paper Warehouse

About Macro Paper Warehouse

What this is

Journals tell you a paper exists; we tell you what it says.

Macro Paper Warehouse tracks forthcoming papers in macroeconomics and monetary economics, plus a curated collection of the field’s classic papers, and publishes a faithful two-layer summary of each one. The goal is a fast path from “something new is out” (or “I need to actually understand this classic”) to “I understand what it actually claims and how confident I should be.”

Where to start depends on why you’re here:

  • Practitioners and policy readers — start with the homepage’s Start here row, or filter by topic to whatever you’re tracking. Layer 1 on any paper page gets you the finding and the stakes in under a minute.
  • PhD students and researchers — the Q&A layer on each paper page is written to be useful as a reading-group prep sheet: identification strategy, scope conditions, and how a paper relates to the literature around it.
  • Curious readers new to the field — the glossary is written for you specifically, in plain language, before you hit any paper’s own jargon.

How summaries are made

Every summary goes through the same pipeline:

  1. Metadata pulled from APIs. Bibliographic fields (title, authors, journal, DOI, links) come from Crossref and OpenAlex — never guessed or filled in by a model.
  2. Full working paper located. The summary is built from the complete manuscript — either the full PDF or open-access HTML. If no freely available version is found, no summary is written.
  3. Two-layer summary drafted. Layer 1 is a plain-language preview carrying the load-bearing qualifiers. Layer 2 is a Q&A that goes as deep as faithful coverage requires.
  4. Claim-grounding review. Every claim must be traceable to a source span. Ungrounded claims block publication.
  5. Human approval. No summary reaches the live site without passing the review gate and a human merge decision.

Is this AI-generated?

Yes, and we’d rather say so plainly than have you wonder. Every summary is drafted by AI from the paper’s full manuscript, not a model’s prior knowledge of the topic — the pipeline above is designed so a summary can’t be published from an abstract alone, or from anything the model already “knew” about the paper. Every claim in a summary is checked against a specific span of source text before publication, and a human reviews and merges each one before it goes live. The AI drafts; the sourcing and the approval are not automated.

Classic papers

Alongside forthcoming and recently-published research, the warehouse includes a growing collection of foundational macro and monetary papers — the same faithful two-layer treatment, sourced from the actual published article rather than a working paper. Classic papers are marked with a Classic badge and can be browsed separately via the Collection filter.

Journals covered

Core coverage (all papers): Journal of Monetary Economics · Journal of Money, Credit and Banking · Review of Economic Dynamics · American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics · Journal of Economic Growth

Selective coverage (macro/monetary papers only): American Economic Review · Econometrica · Journal of Political Economy · Quarterly Journal of Economics · Review of Economic Studies · The Economic Journal

Corrections

Found an error or a misrepresentation? The flag link on each paper page goes directly to the right place, or write to zchen.econ@gmail.com directly. Corrections from authors are especially welcome.

Who runs this

Macro Paper Warehouse is run by Robin Chen. Questions, feedback, or corrections: zchen.econ@gmail.com.