The 18^th GEP Postgraduate Conference will take place 10^th – 11^th May 2019 at the University of Nottingham.  The Conference provides a forum for the dissemination of student research relating to issues of Globalisation and Economic Policy from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. These areas include Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, Productivity, Economics of the MNEs, Migration and Labour Market Adjustment.

The objective of the Conference is to bring together a number of PhD students and postdoctoral researchers to discuss their own research ideas with established researchers in a relaxed atmosphere. The conference is open to graduate students and post-docs. Speakers will be selected on the basis of submitted papers or an extended abstract. (Preference will, however, be given to papers.)

Submission 

Applicants must submit their CV, a letter of support from their PhD supervisor (sent separately by email; this is not required for post-docs) and the paper to be presented.  If a full paper is not yet available, please include a detailed abstract, providing clearly the motivation for the work, the relationship to the literature, the method used and the expected results.

Every paper accepted will be assigned a discussant who will present and comment on the paper. Therefore, those who are invited to present a paper are expected to deliver a complete paper before the Conference.

Applications must be sent by e-mail to:
Dr Alejandro Riaño  

Deadline for submission: 24^th February 2019
Keynote speaker: Swati Dhingra (LSE)

Finance 

There is a £180 registration fee to contribute towards costs which includes up to two nights’ accommodation (10^th and 11^th May).

Best Paper Prize 

The organising committee will award a prize of ₤100 to the best paper presented at the Conference.

Further information 

Further information on the Conference can be found at:

https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/gep/news-events/conferences/2018-19/postgrad-conference-2019.aspx

the 8^th AIEAA Conference “Tomorrow’s Food. Diet transition and its implications on health and the environment” will be held in Pistoia on 13- 14 June, 2019.

Despite past progress, approximately 3 billion people across the globe have low-quality diets. Nearly a quarter of all children under five years of age are stunted, more than 2 billion people have insufficient micronutrients. While undernourishment is concentrated in developing countries, the incidence of overweight and obesity is growing in every region. As a result, many economies are seriously underperforming, and diet-related chronic diseases are placing ever-greater demands on health care systems.

At the same time, environmental impacts of current food production and consumption patterns are rampant. The food system contributes to approximately 20-30% of greenhouse gases (GHG) total emissions, 15-25% from agriculture/land use change and 5-10% from packaging, transportation and waste disposal.

The situation is set to worsen dramatically over the next 20 years as powerful drivers of change such as population growth, climate change, diet transition towards animal products and urbanization converge on food systems. This concern is reflected by various Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) – namely, “Zero hunger” (SDG-2), “Good health and wellbeing” (SDG-3), and “Responsible consumption and production” (SGD-12), just to mention the most important ones – that try to address these issues. While these problems are of utmost urgency for low- and middle-income countries, they are also a stark concern for all countries.

Considerable challenges need to be addressed in order to have an effective and sustainable diet transition. In particular, food systems need to be harnessed so that they nourish rather than merely feed people. This alone will open up countless opportunities for interventions that decision makers can tailor to specific situations. Furthermore, priorities for action at national and international levels as well as detailed advice and guidance need to be identified in order to provide guidance to decision makers.

The 8^th AIEAA Congress will therefore focus on the conundrum represented by the interaction of economic development, nutrition and health, and sustainability. Sustainable diets are intended to address the increasing health and environmental concerns related to food production and consumption. Although many candidates for sustainable diets have emerged, a comprehensive analysis of these diets has not been done yet. A number of public policies have been proposed to promote healthy and environmentally sustainable diets at production and consumption levels, but the level of integration is still relatively low. New evidence is needed on the effectiveness of public policies for sustainable diets.

Abstract submission by authors:
15 February 2019

Notification of acceptance to authors:
20 March 2019

Full version of paper / Revised version of long abstract  / Revised version of poster abstract submission:
20 May 2019

Authors’ registration deadline:
20 May 2019

On the Conference website you can now find all the relevant information regarding the call for papers and papers submission (link).

The 2019 annual meeting of the Central Bank Research Association (CEBRA) is hosted by Columbia University and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The scientific committee is chaired by Patricia Mosser, Takatoshi Ito, Stefanie Schmitt-Grohé, and Michael Woodford (all Columbia University).

The meeting commences at 14.00 on Thursday, July 18 with a high-level policy workshop at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, featuring presentations by Nellie Liang and Jeremy C. Stein, as well as a keynote talk by John C. Williams.

The over 30 contributed sessions and further high-level panels take place on Friday and Saturday, July 19-20 at the Kellogg Center, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. The Bank for International Settlements and Columbia University organize high-level panels. Contributed sessions are organised by Financial Stability Board, International Monetary Fund, Swiss National Bank, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Bank of Israel, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, European Central Bank, Sveriges Riksbank, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Norges Bank, Bank of Spain, Bank of Japan, Bank of Canada, Bank of Korea, Oesterreichische Nationalbank (OeNB), Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Deutsche Bundesbank, Central Bank of Ireland, Columbia University, SAFE/Goethe University Frankfurt, Center for Economic Policy Research, Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, and International Banking Research Network.

The deadline for submissions is Saturday, February 2nd. The submission process is organised by the Research Center “Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe” (SAFE) at Goethe University Frankfurt. The link for submissions is:

https://safe-frankfurt.de/index.php?id=699

Submissions for CEBRA’s 2019 annual meeting are being sought on a wide variety of themes, including:

• Digital currencies, fintech, and technology (sessions 1-3)
• Regulation, markets, and financial intermediation (sessions 26-31)
• International economics (sessions 9-13)
• Macroeconomics, monetary policy, macrofinance, as well as monetary policy frameworks and communication  (sessions 14-25)
• Inflation dynamics (sessions 6-8)
• Policy lessons from the history of finance and central banking (sessions 4-5)

The link to the call for papers can be found here.

The Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE), the LACEA’s America Latina Crime and Policy Network (AL CAPONE) and EAFIT are pleased to announce a call for papers for the RIDGE/LACEA-AL CAPONE Workshop on Economics of Crime to be held in Medellin, Colombia on 22-23 May 2019.

The deadline for submission is 15 February 2019

The AL CAPONE brings together economists and other social scientists from Latin America and the Caribbean and other parts of the world doing cutting-edge research on the Economics of Crime. AL CAPONE’s goal is to foster research using state-of-the-art techniques in order to advance the nowledge on the Economics of Crime in Latin America. In addition, the network promotes discussion and exchange of ideas between policymakers and researchers, in an attempt to generate positive feedbacks between policy and academia.

RIDGE is an initiative of the International Economic Association (IEA).

The RIDGE Forums aim to favor the spread of high quality research in economics by bringing policymakers together top local and regional researchers working on the frontier of knowledge. Participants to the six workshops are welcome to attend the other workshops.

Paper submission

Full papers, written in English, must be submitted for consideration for the meeting. The cover page should include: the title of the paper, institutional affiliation, including address, phone and email of each author and an abstract with the appropriate JEL classification.

Each author can submit and present at most one paper.

Full papers, in PDF format, should be submitted online via the RIDGE website:

Paper submission

Important dates:

Deadline for paper submission: February 15, 2019

Notification of decisions: March 15, 2019

Further information

Should you have any questions please contact:

secretariat@ridge.uy

For more information about RIDGE see:

www.ridge.uy