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RIDGE Call for Paper: International Macro – 2018 December Forum

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The Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE) and the Banco Central del Uruguay are pleased to announce the call for papers for the Workshop on International Macro to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 6-7 December 2018.

As in previous years, we are looking for papers focusing on issues related to capital flows, monetary and macroprudential policies, exchange rates, international reserve accumulation, sovereign debt, and international spillovers. Papers in other topics of international macroeconomics and macroeconomics are also welcome.

The deadline for submission is August 31, 2018.
The 2018 workshop will take place within the framework of the 2018 RIDGE December Forum along with the following workshops:

  • Financial Stability, December 4-5 (Montevideo, Uruguay)
  • Economic History, December 7-8 (Montevideo, Uruguay)
  • Environmental Economics, December 10-11 (Montevideo, Uruguay)
  • Macroeconomics and Development, December 10-11 (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  • Growth and Development in Macroeconomics & Trade and Firm Dynamics, December 12 – 14 (Montevideo, Uruguay)

The RIDGE December Forum aims to favor the spread of high quality research in economics by bringing together top researchers working on the frontier of knowledge with local and regional researchers and policymakers. Participants to this workshop are welcome to attend the other workshops.

Paper Submission

Full papers, in PDF format, should be submitted through: http://www.ridge.uy/paper-submission/

Important Dates

Deadline for paper submission: August 31, 2018
Authors of selected papers will be contacted by September 14, 2018
Workshop: December 6-7, 2018

Notes

Organizers will make hotel reservations and cover accommodation costs (up to three nights) to speakers.

Further Information

Should you have any questions please visit http://www.ridge.uy/ridge-forums/2018-december-forum/ or email 

For more information about RIDGE see
www.ridge.uy

 

 

Special Issue “New Institutional Economics”

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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

It has been twenty years since Ronald Coase claimed, in the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Economic Association, that “When the majority of economists have changed, mainstream economists will acknowledge the importance of examining the economic system in the way [of new institutional economics] and will claim that they knew it all along.” Twenty years later, new institutional economics has nearly become a household name among “mainstream economists” and enriched economics by taking the institutional context of economic transactions into account.

To take stock of the progress of the field, Economies is inviting contributions for a Special Issue devoted to new institutional economics.

Submissions relating to all the facets of the field are welcome. Topics can cover, but are not limited to, the causes and determinants of democratic transitions, institutional quality, culture, religion, aid, international trade and development, and war. Contributions can be theoretical or empirical and use contemporary or historical data. Critical surveys are also welcome.

Prof. Dr. Pierre-Guillaume Méon
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Economies is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) is waived for well-prepared manuscripts submitted to this issue. Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI’s English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Published Papers

This special issue is now open for submission.

PhD position in Environmental Economics, Department of Economics, University of Kiel

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The department of economics, Chair of Environmental and Energy Economics at Kiel Univer-sity, offers a position for

a PhD position

with a three year fixed term appointment starting September 1st, 2018, or later. The salary is based on the German public pay scale (TV-L 13) with a weekly workload corresponding to a three-fourth position with 29,025 hours.

Area of Activity:
The position in the collaborative project GoCoase – Governing climate change adaptation at the Baltic Sea Coast is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The objective of GoCoase is to evaluate different adaptation paths to climate change impacts on the German Baltic Sea coast at the regional level. Together with two sen-ior researchers, the successful applicant will investigate the economic effects of protections measures. This includes the design, implementation and analysis of a choice experiment and a cost-benefit analysis of the measures.

You should have:

  • An excellent degree in economics (or a comparable subject),
  • Interest in quantitative research, in particular in the field of environmental eco-nomics,
  • Skills in data analysis is desirable but not a pre-requisite,
  • Excellent command of the Germany and English language, both written and spo-ken,
  • Cooperativeness, i.e., ability to work in a team,
  • Independence and commitment

What we offer:

  • A challenging and interesting research position with the possibility to shape your own research profile,
  • A sound academic supervision of the dissertation work,
  • Admission to the PhD program Quantitative Economics with a challenging course program (http://www.quantitative-economics.uni-kiel.de/en).
  • A stimulating academic environment with numerous researchers in the field of en-vironmental and resource economics
  • More information on the research done in the working group and current research projects can be found in the internet: https://www.e3.uni-kiel.de/en

For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Katrin Rehdanz, email: rehdanz@economics.uni-kiel.de.

The University of Kiel is an equal opportunity employer, aiming to increase the proportion of women in science. Applications by women are particularly welcome. Female applicants will be treated with priority if their qualifications and achievements are equal to those of male ap-plicants.

The University of Kiel has an equal opportunities policy for persons with recognized disabili-ties. Disabled persons with the necessary qualifications will therefore be given priority. Applications by people with a migration background are particularly welcomed.

Please send your application in one PDF document including motivation letter, CV, study cer-tificates and at least one reference letter before July 5th, 2018 to

Kiel University Institute for Economics, Chair of Environmental and Energy Economics Prof. Dr. Katrin Rehdanz
for the attention of Ms Hille Rowehl, E-mail: re2-sekretariat@economics.uni-kiel.de

Please refrain from submitting application photos.

Inaugural Trade Network Workshop “Global trade after the Great Recession: cyclical dynamics, structural changes and the new steady state”

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The inaugural Trade Network Workshop is being organised by the European Central Bank and will be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on 17 September 2018.

After years of low growth, global trade dynamics are gaining momentum again. At the same time, trade growth is likely to remain below pre-crisis averages. This gives rise to a number of questions, such as: What is the new steady state for global trade growth? What are the drivers of the cyclical developments? Which structural determinants will anchor trade growth going forward? To what extent are protectionist policies posing risks to world trade? The workshop will bring together central bankers, academics and market practitioners to discuss their views and empirical evidence on these topics.

Two keynote addresses will be delivered by Graham Slack, Chief Economist of A.P. Møller-Mærsk, and Bernard Hoekman, Robert Schuman Chair at the European University Institute.

We welcome any contributions on these topics, particularly those that focus on the following four areas:

  1. The cyclical position of trade: Empirical studies on the cyclical dynamics of trade, short- and medium-term forecasting models, and trend/cycle decompositions.
  2. Structural changes and steady state determinants: Studies that focus on structural breaks, time-variation in trade growth, and structural factors determining trade dynamics in the medium and long term.
  3. Trade and technology: Empirical and theoretical contributions that focus on the role of technology in global value chain participation, on- versus re-shoring, intra-firm trade, and provision and measurement of trade in services.
  4. Trade and protectionism: Studies that assess the impact on trade flows of protectionist policies and trade agreements and the potential impact of Brexit.

Please email your contributions to  by 31 July 2018.

The event is being hosted by the European Central Bank.

Organising Committee

  • Alexander Al-Haschimi ()
  • Frauke Skudelny ()
  • Björn van Roye ()

PEDL – 6th Call for MRG Proposals

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Sixth Call for Major Research Grant Proposals

Deadline: 31 August 2018

The sixth call for PEDL Major Research Grants (MRGs) is now open!

About PEDL: The Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) programme pursues a research agenda that aims to better understand what determines the strength of market forces driving efficiency in lower-income countries. The Initiative supports research related to firms, enterprises, and markets and gives priority to approaches that promise to produce credible research results relevant for policy-making in targeted countries. Projects carried out partly or entirely in non-focus countries will be considered if a convincing case is made that the results are applicable to the focus countries. See the list of DfID focus countries here.

Topics: We welcome proposals in any area related to private sector development in focus countries. We expect that many of the funded proposals will relate to one of PEDL’s four main research themes:

  • Market frictions, management and organizations.
  • Trade and macro models – agglomeration and spatial location of firms.
  • High growth entrepreneurship.
  • Social compliance and the environment.

PEDL also encourages proposals that address three cross-cutting issues: Gender; Fragile and Conflict-Affected States; and Unlocking Data for Understanding Markets and Firms. We also encourage projects that consider the exclusions/ barriers faced by people with disabilities as a component of the research. Applicants are encouraged to consider these cross-cutting issues in their projects. Projects that unlock or create data on firms in LICs that can be used by other researchers may be able to make a case for substantially more than average funding.

For a more comprehensive description of the new research agenda, please click here.

Major Research Grants:

The call has a lower limit of £100,000. While there is no upper limit, cost effectiveness and value for money are important evaluation criteria. Grants can be used to fund research assistance, data collection and new surveys in low-income countries, and teaching buyouts for the principal investigator. Proposals funded in this call may have a term of up to three years.

To date, PEDL has awarded 34 MRGs, with an average value of around £300,000. You can view the descriptions of these projects here.

Optional Expressions of Interest: Researchers are invited to submit a one or two-page description of their project in advance of the full proposal. We will aim to provide feedback on the fit of the proposal with the PEDL program within a week of submission.  We will not provide any feedback on the EOI with regard to the quality of the proposal or the likelihood of funding. The optional submission of an expression of interest is intended to reduce the initial effort required for those researchers who are unsure of their project’s alignment with PEDL’s themes. Expressions of interest should be submitted to.

The deadline for submissions is 31 August 2018. For more information on the submission requirement and procedure, please see the How to Apply for a Major Grant page. For more details regarding eligibility and full project details please see the PEDL Guide for Applicants. Please, send an email to confirming that you have submitted a proposal. In this way, a member of the PEDL Team will be able to assist you with your application if some relevant detail were missing.

David Atkin will chair the review panel for this MRG call.

 

Sustainability and Development Conference at the University of Michigan (U-M)

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November 9-11, 2018
The conference is supported by several U-M departments, as well as the journal, World Development. It will cover a suite of key themes related to sustainability and development, but broadly focuses on the many global efforts to realize the SDGs and to assess the outcomes of SDG interventions. The conference is an opportunity for us to deepen our efforts to understand the breadth and depth of work on the subject and to facilitate collaborative conversation and action around sustainability and development relationships.
One of the objectives of the conference is also to strengthen World Development itself by helping potential authors gain insights into the editorial review process, and by encouraging potential authors to submit papers to World Development. To this end, we will select the top 10 papers submitted to the conference for expedited review and publication, and another top 25 papers whose full text is submitted to the conference to send out for review (provided submitting author(s) are interested in publishing in World Development).
In addition, in my capacity as Editor-in-Chief of World Development, I am offering a limited number of one-on-one expedited manuscript review sessions. As a way to say thank you for your contributions to the journal, priority will be given to existing World Development reviewers and those who have already prepared manuscripts for submission.
We welcome abstracts for posters, workshops, lightning talks, oral presentations, and full panels. See the webpage, umsustdev.org, for guidelines and other information.
The deadline is July 15, 2018, and we will communicate with all authors of selected abstracts before September 1, when registration will open for the conference and by when we will also provide invitation letters to those whose abstracts are accepted.
We hope very much that you will consider submitting an abstract  and that we will have the opportunity to engage with you in person.
Sincerely,
Arun Agrawal

XXVIIIth Annual General Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics; DECEMBER 21st and 22nd , 2018; Department of Economics, Jadavpur University; Kolkata 700032, India

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Department of Economics, Jadavpur University invites researchers to submit papers (both theoretical and empirical) for the XXVIIIth Annual Conference on Contemporary Issues in Development Economics. Submissions can pertain to any area of economics.

Please send separate soft copies of your full research paper and abstract (of not more
than 150 words) to juconference@gmail.com. The last date for submission is August 31, 2018.

Those making submissions will be informed by October 10, 2018 regarding acceptance.
All papers will be refereed. Participants may be provided with local hospitality on the basis of availability of funds.

Research scholars engaged in PhD research at a recognized university are especially encouraged to submit their papers. A number of travel grants (return a/c three tier train fare) along with accommodation and local hospitality during the conference days will be provided to select Research Scholars based in India, with accepted papers, on the basis of evaluated merit.

With best regards,
Siddhartha Mitra and Rilina Basu
Conveners

CESifo 12th Workshop on Political Economy

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Time: Nov 30, 2018 1 PM – Dez 1, 2018 2:45 PM

Address: ifo Institute, Dresden Branch, Einsteinstraße 3, 01069 Dresden

CESifo, the Center of Public Economics at TU Dresden and the ifo Institute for Economic Research Dresden will jointly organize a workshop on Political Economy. In the tradition of the previous workshops, the conference will take place in Saxony´s capital Dresden. The two-day workshop will serve as a forum to present current research results in political economy and will give researchers the opportunity to network. The keynote lectures will be delivered by Gilles Saint-Paul (Paris School of Economics) and Stefan Voigt (Universität Hamburg).

Scientific organiser(s): Christian Lessmann, Gunther Markwardt

Submit a paper

ELSNIT Annual Conference

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The Euro-Latin Network on Integration and Trade (ELSNIT) is now accepting submissions of papers examining the relationships between technology and trade along the economic, institutional, political science, and legal dimensions. In particular, submitted papers should address questions such as–but not limited to–the following:

  • Emerging Technologies and Evolving Cross-Border Business Models. More
  • Emerging Technologies and International Trade. More
  • Emerging Technologies, New Trade Barriers, and New Policy Challenges. More

Both theoretical and empirical contributions will be considered, but in all cases, priority will be given to papers identifying and shedding light on relevant policy questions such as those outlined above, including case studies of policies followed by national or international organizations, in particular. Furthermore, submission of papers that, in doing this, explicitly contrast successful and failed cases, comparing countries within a certain a geographical area, is strongly encouraged. Important lessons are expected to be drawn from these contributions for Latin American and Caribbean countries.

The selected papers will be presented along invited contributions at the XVI Annual ELSNIT Conference that will be hosted by Universität St. Gallen in St. Gallen, Switzerland, on October 25-26, 2018.

A recognized expert in the field will comment upon each paper. All the papers and discussions will be circulated as working documents of the network. The authors are free to submit the papers to academic journals, stating that they were presented at the XVI Annual ELSNIT Conference.

Procedures for Submission of Papers

All researchers who are associated with a European or Latin American/Caribbean based academic or research institution are eligible to submit papers. While detailed abstracts will be accepted, there is a strong preference for nearly completed papers. Submission should be accompanied by a statement declaring the institutional affiliation of the authors. The papers should be written in English.

To register for the conference and submit a paper, please fill out this FORM and follow the instructions therein.

CALENDAR:

  • The deadline for submissions is May 25, 2018
  • The final selection of papers will be made by June 10, 2018 by the network coordinators. More
  • The final versions of the papers must be delivered by September 20, 2018.

The selected authors’ and invited discussants’ travel expenditures (economy class) and per diems to participate at the conference will be reimbursed by the IDB. Detailed guidelines explaining the logistics of the conference will be provided at a later stage. Please circulate this call for papers among your colleagues and other potentially interested parties.

Research Officer on a development project (full-time position)

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The Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) is looking to recruit a dynamic, dedicated individual with an interest in cutting-edge, policy-relevant research in development economics for a full-time Research Officer position within its Private Enterprise Development in Low-Income Countries (PEDL) programme, which has recently been extended. PEDL is a joint research initiative of CEPR and the Department for International Development (DFID). It offers competitive research grants for projects related to the behaviour of firms and the structure of markets in developing countries, with the aim to better understand what drives private sector growth in these countries. More information can be found at http://pedl.cepr.org/.

This position includes the following tasks:

  • Assessing scientific progress and reviewing outputs and results of active research projects from an academic standpoint – involves assessing ~10 progress reports per month.
  • Disseminating the results from awarded projects by editing researchers’ policy briefs, writing project summaries, and managing website content.
  • Drafting PEDL Policy Insights, an 8-10 page summary of a longer and more comprehensive literature review on novel or understudied topics in development economics, so that the underlying research can be shared with a wider policy audience.
  • Writing executive summaries for PEDL Policy Insight and PEDL Synthesis pieces.
  • Producing reports for DFID outlining the Initiative’s progress and achievements against its original timeline and objectives and identifying key policy-relevant projects to highlight.
  • Sending DFID PEDL’s best publications monthly for internal circulation and updating the R4D.
  • Working with a web developer to rebuild the PEDL website in order to better highlight results from funded projects as new types of outputs become available.
  • Supporting overall programme management by helping to organise conferences, assisting the Scientific Coordinator of the PEDL initiative by evaluating research grant proposals for policy relevance and scientific merit, smoothing the grant application progress and tracking the progress of PEDL.
  • Liaising between researchers, the PEDL Scientific Coordinator and the CEPR Grants Coordination team.

The candidate should have the following qualifications/skills:

Essential

  • Postgraduate degree in economics, public policy or a related discipline with a significant focus on econometric techniques and experimental design.
  • High critical abilities for identifying scientific value in research projects and a solid understanding of the issues related to rigorous identification in economic research.
  • Strong writing skills, with the ability to translate research results into non-specialist terms.
  • Excellent organisational and project management skills and ability to prioritise among competing tasks.
  • Ability to take initiative and work autonomously.
  • Strong interest in development and growth economics, firms and markets.
  • The candidate should have the right to work in the UK.

Preferred

  • Research experience (e.g. Research Assistance experience).
  • Experience managing websites and social media.
  • Experience working in developing countries.

Salary: £30k – £33k, full time

To Apply

Candidates can apply by submitting a CV and short cover letter outlining their skills and motivation by email to . Candidates should also mention their availability and preferred start date in the cover letter.

The deadline is Thursday 24th May