Call for Papers:15th Australasian Trade Workshop

Research School of Economics
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
21 – 22 March (Sat – Sun), 2020

The Research School of Economics at the Australian National University will host the 15th Australasian Trade Workshop (ATW) on 21st and 22nd March, 2020. Keynote speakers will be Giovanni Maggi from Yale and Hylke Vandenbussche from Leuven.

We invite colleagues in this field (JEL-Classification F0 to F2) to submit papers for presentation at the workshop. If you are interested, please send your abstract or preferably your complete paper (in pdf-format only, please) to .

The deadline for submissions is October 31, 2019.

Conference participants are expected to serve as discussants at the workshop. There is no registration fee, but unfortunately we are unable to offer financial assistance to participants. Upon acceptance, participants will be asked to book their travel and accommodation independently.

If you have any further questions about the workshop, please contact the local organisers, Martin Richardson () and Lili Ceric ().

ATW webpage: https://www.rse.anu.edu.au/seminars-events/conferences/australasian-trade-workshop/

Call for Papers: International Trade / Growth and Development in Macroeconomics – Ridge December Forum

The Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the Workshop on International Trade / Growth and  Development in Macroeconomics to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 17-19 December 2019.

The deadline for submission is September 27, 2019 (12 AM ET).

The 2019 workshop will take place within the framework of the 2019 RIDGE
December Forum along with the following workshops:

– Economic History, 2-3 December
– Financial Stability, 11-12 December, Central Bank of Uruguay
– International Macro, 9-10 December, Central Bank of Uruguay

The RIDGE December Forum aims to favor the spread of high quality research in economics by bringing together prestigious researchers working on the frontier of knowledge to local and regional researchers and policymakers.

Participants to this workshop are welcome to attend the other workshops.

Full papers, written in English, must be submitted for consideration for the workshop. 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.

Papers should be submitted as pdf and the file should be saved as follows: “Surname of author, name of author, title of paper.pdf”.

Each author can submit and present at most one paper per workshop. Submission of papers to other workshops is possible, however the same paper can only be presented in one workshop within the same forum.

Full papers should be submitted via the website:
http://www.ridge.uy/paper-submission/

Important dates
Deadline for paper submission: September 27, 2019 (12 AM ET)
Notification of organizers decision: October 11, 2019

To view the programmes of previous workshops, please visit:
December 2018:
http://www.ridge.uy/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TFD-GDM-Programme_v1.6.pdf
December 2017:
http://www.ridge.uy/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/ProgramGDM_2017_3.pdf
December 2016:
http://www.ridge.uy/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Trade-and-Firm-Dynamics.pdf

Further information
Should you have any questions please contact:

For more information about RIDGE see:
www.ridge.uy

Call for Papers: Workshop EP@B, Economics & Politics at Bruxelles

December, 16-17, 2019, Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)

Following the 2018 Economics and Politics at Lille (EP@L), the 2019 Economics and Politics Workshop will take place at Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) and become EP@B, jointly organized by Centre Emile Bernheim (ULB), Dulbéa (ULB), CEE  (Sciences Po Paris), and LEM (University of Lille). The workshop aims to bring together scholars from economics and political science interested in interdisciplinary work on political economy. We welcome theoretical as well as empirical papers by both economists and political scientists. Papers covering issues in all usual areas of political economy are welcome. The workshop is intended for presentation of papers-in-progress that can benefit from discussion. Selection of papers will be based on their quality with the aim to offer a coherent program. Submissions by graduate students and recent graduates of thesis chapters are welcome.

Workshop Organization
There are no parallel sessions. Participation in the workshop implies participation in all sessions. To facilitate and improve discussions, the time devoted to presentation and discussion will be equivalent. For each paper, at least one discussant will be designated. There is no conference fee. Young scholars (up to two years after PhD) can apply for a scholarship.

Deadlines and submissions
Extended abstract or a copy of the paper in pdf format should be sent to epal.lille@gmail.com by October 18, 2019. Authors will be notified by November 1st and agree to send at least a draft version of their paper by December 1st, 2019. Those interested in discussing a paper or willing to take part in the event could contact the organizers. To support young researchers (up to two years after PhD), the organizers can cover travel expenditures and accommodation for up to four researchers (max 500 euros each). Please, indicate whether you apply for those scholarships in your submission and where you would travel from.

Program committee: Quentin David (LEM, Lille University), Abel François (LEM, Lille University), Emiliano Grossman (CEE, Sciences Po Paris), Pierre-Guillaume Méon (Centre Emile Bernheim) and Ilan Tojerow (Dulbéa)

Local committee: Pierre-Guillaume Méon (Centre Emile Bernheim) and Ilan Tojerow (Dulbéa) Contact: Pierre-Guillaume Méon (pgmeon@ulb.ac.be), Ilan Tojerow (itojerow@ulb.ac.be)

RIDGE Workshop on International Trade / Growth and Development in Macroeconomics

The Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the Workshop on International Trade / Growth and  Development in Macroeconomics to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 17-19 December 2019.

The deadline for submission is September 27, 2019 (12 AM ET).

Invited Keynote Speakers:

Gene M. Grossman (Jacob Viner Professor of International Economics at Princeton University
Jonathan Eaton (Distinguished Professor of Economics at The Pennsylvania State University)
Ufuk Akcigit (Associate Professor at University of Chicago)

The RIDGE December Forum aims to favor the spread of high quality research in economics by bringing together prestigious researchers working on the frontier of knowledge to local and regional researchers and policymakers.

Participants to this workshop are welcome to attend the other workshops.

Full papers, written in English, must be submitted for consideration for the workshop. 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.

Papers should be submitted as pdf and the file should be saved as follows: “Surname of author, name of author, title of paper.pdf”.

Each author can submit and present at most one paper per workshop. Submission of papers to other workshops is possible, however the same paper can only be presented in one workshop within the same forum.

Full papers should be submitted via the website:
http://www.ridge.uy/paper-submission/

Important dates
Deadline for paper submission: September 27, 2019 (12 AM ET)
Notification of organizers decision: October 11, 2019

 

XVII Euro-Latin Study Network on Integration and Trade (ELSNIT) Trade and Investment Promotion

PARIS, FRANCE, OCTOBER 23-24, 2019

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

Export and Investment Promotion Agencies (EPAs and IPAs)’s Institutional Characteristics and Practices.

How do countries promote exports and investment? What is the role of EPAs and IPAs? How are these agencies organized and what is the volume of the financial and human resources these agencies are endowed with? To what extent agencies’ size and institutional attributes matter? Do agencies target specific sectors or countries? What is the extent of these targeting efforts? Are targeted sectors those already present in the host economy, connected to these sectors, or entirely new? How are these identified? Does targeting make a difference?

Export Promotion Programs.

What programs do EPAs traditionally have to promote exports? Are there recent innovations in the set of programs? What evidence is there available on the market failures these programs seek to address (e.g., information spillovers)? Are they properly designed to do so? Are new technologies used in the implementation of the programs (e.g., artificial intelligence to identify buyers)? Are programs (cost-) effective? Do their impacts vary with firms’, traded goods/services’, or destinations’ attributes? How? What are the channels through which the impacts take place (e.g., extensive margin)? Are impacts conditioned by other policy factors such as preferential trade agreements, trade facilitation policies, or innovation promotion programs? Are their spillovers from participating in export promotion programs?

Investment Promotion Programs.

What programs do IPAs traditionally have to promote FDI? Are there recent innovations either in the set of programs or in their implementation modalities (e.g., use of artificial intelligence to identify leads)? What evidence is there available on the market failures these programs seek to address (e.g., information spillovers)? Are programs (cost-) effective in attracting FDI? Do their impacts vary across groups of firms, sectors, and origin countries? How? Are impacts conditioned by other policy factors such as preferential trade agreements, bilateral investment treaties, double taxation treaties, trade facilitation policies, and free trade zones or export processing zones’ regimes? Are their spillovers from investment promotion-attracted FDI to the local economy? What are the size and the nature of these spillovers? What are the channels through which these spillovers take place (e.g., employee rotation)? What characteristics do effective linkages’ programs have? Are investment promotion and linkages’ programs coordinated? How? Do linkages’ programs effectively foster spillovers? Can these programs help domestic firms internationalize when combined with other public support initiatives such as export and innovation promotion programs? 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 XVII Annual ELSNIT Conference that will be hosted by the CEPII in Paris, France, on October 23-24, 2019. 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 XVII 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.

The deadline for submissions is June 14, 2019. The final selection of papers will be made by June 28, 2019 by the network coordinators –Simon Evenett (University St. Gallen and CEPR), Holger Görg (University of Kiel and Kiel Institute for the World Economy), Bernard Hoekman (EUI and CEPR), Jacint Jordana (IBEI and UPF), Gianmarco Ottaviano (Bocconi University – BAFI CAREFIN and CEPR), Gianluca Santoni (CEPII), and Christian Volpe Martincus (IDB/INT)–. The final versions of the papers must be delivered by September 20, 2019.
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.

Background Information
The Euro-Latin Study Network on Integration and Trade (ELSNIT) is an initiative of the Inter-American Development Bank to create in Europe a forum on integration and trade issues relevant to Latin America and the Caribbean. The main objectives of the Network are to generate research, studies and debate on these issues, draw on a rich European experience and perspectives and increase interaction between European and Latin American researchers. The annual conference organized in the framework of the
Network focuses on a particular issue each year.
The ELSNIT Network is coordinated by a Steering Committee that currently consists of the Bocconi University, Milan, Italy; Centre d’Etudes Prospectives et d’Informations Internationales (CEPII), Paris, France; the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel, Germany; the European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy; the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Barcelona, Spain; the University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland; the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR),
London, United Kingdom; and the IDB (INT).

China’s engagement with the African continent: Oxford, 19–21 March 2020

A special event just before next year’s annual conference of Oxford University’s Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) will focus on China–Africa economic and development relationships.A special event just before next year’s annual conference of Oxford University’s Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE) will focus on China–Africa economic and development relationships.

Keynote speaker: Prof. Deborah Bräutigam (John Hopkins University’s SAIS-CARI)Alongside a keynote address and plenary panels, there will be parallel sessions where academics will present their empirical research. For these sessions, we will be looking for contributions on – though not limited to – such topics as: aid, trade, foreign direct investment, industrialisation, public debt, Belt and Road Initiative, environmental sustainability, political economy, governance and institutions.

The call for papers will open in July 2019 and close in October 2019. Further details will be available on the CSAE website in due course (https://www.csae.ox.ac.uk/). Final decisions will be made by December 2019. Priority will be given to full papers. Funding may be available for scholars from African countries and China.

Convening panel: Meredith Crowley, Stefan Dercon, Lizzie Dipple, Markus Eberhardt, Pascal Jaupart, Benno Ndulu, Lina Song, and Adrian Wood.For further information, please contact .

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ETSG2019 Bern: September 12-14

The twenty-first ETSG Conference will be hosted by the University of Bern, World Trade Institute in Bern (Switzerland) on 12-14 September 2019.

The deadline to submit an abstract for possible presentation is FRIDAY MAY 3, 2019. Please visit the conference webpage (http://www.etsg.org/conferences/) for more details and submit your abstract on-line at http://www.etsg.org/abstract-for-etsg-conference.html

Call for Papers — Agricultural trade

IATRC and the European Commission in Seville, Spain are co-organizing a Summer Symposium June 23-25, 2019 on : “Trading for good – Agricultural trade in the context of climate change adaptation and mitigation: synergies, obstacles and possible solutions”.

The conference will be held at the Hotel Melia Sevilla. The meeting registration fee will be $375.  Details on symposium registration and hotel reservations are forthcoming.

Send your (2-pages) proposals to the co-chairs (Fabio Santeramo, Dragan Miljkovic, Emanuele Ferrari) via e-mail (), by March 30th, 2019. For more info, please read the Call for Paper Proposals.

Workshop on Development Economics: Organisations, Institutions and the Mind

24-25 June 2019, University of Kent

The School of Economics at the University of Kent is hosting a workshop, sponsored by the Royal Economic Society, that will bring together internationally leading and junior academics from the fields of Political Economy, Organisational Economics and Development Economics working on questions relating to identity, norms, motivation, belief formation and their effect on the functioning of institutions and organisations.

Confirmed speakers include Professors Sonia Bhalotra (University of Essex), Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE), Lakshmi Iyer (University of Notre Dame), Gilat Levy (LSE), and Dilip Mookherjee (Boston University).

A call for papers for the workshop is currently open. Details about the call can be found here.

Call for Papers ITSG (Italian Trade Study Group) – Milano 2019

The next meeting of the “ITSG – Italian Trade Study Group” will be organised by Department of Management Engineering, Economics and Industrial Production Politecnico di Milano and Fondazione Manlio Masi on May 16-17 2019.

The Scientific Committee of this meeting includes:
Davide Castellani (University of Reading), Luca De Benedictis (Università di Macerata), Stefano Elia (Politecnico di Milano), Anna Falzoni (Università di Bergamo), Giulia Felice (Politecnico di Milano), Giorgia Giovannetti (Università di Firenze), Enrico Marvasi (Università di Firenze), Lucia Piscitello (Politecnico di Milano), Lucia Tajoli (Politecnico di Milano)
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The Keynote lecture of the Workshop will be delivered by Alan Deardorff, University of Michigan.

Complete paper (or advanced drafts) should be submitted to the Segreteria Fondazione Masi –  by April, 5th 2019. The acceptance of the papers will be notified no later than April 18th, 2019.

For further details on Call for Paper, please visit the website:
www.fondazionemasi.it