The following working papers have recently been added to our working papers page.

Cunha, Alexandre and Emanuel Ornelas (2015) “The Limits of Political Compromise: Debt Ceilings and Political Competition.”

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael, Rodrigo R. Soares and Gabriel Ulyssea (2016) “Local Labor Market Conditions and Crime: Evidence from the Brazilian Trade Liberalization.”

Monarch, Ryan and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr (2016) “Learning and the Value of Relationships in International Trade.”

The 7^th Annual Conference of the Trade, Integration and Growth Network (TIGN) will be held in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on May 24-25, 2016. This conference is sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Economic Association (LACEA), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the CAF-Development Bank of Latin America (CAF), and Sao Paulo School of Economics – FGV and is organized by Sao Paulo School of Economics – FGV. The TIGN conference is a unique event that brings together top researchers and policymakers to discuss recent theoretical and empirical advances in trade and integration and growth broadly defined.

The deadline for submissions is February 29, 2016.

Conference website

The following working papers have recently been added to our working papers page.

Bai, Xue, Kala Krishna and Hong Ma (2016) “How You Export Matters: Export Mode, Learning and Productivity in China”

Giordani, Paolo, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta (2014) “Food Prices and the Multiplier Effect of Trade Policy ”

Krishna, Kala and Lena Sheveleva (2016) “Wheat or Strawberries? Intermediated Trade with Limited Contracting.”

Leahy, Dermot and Catia Montagna (2015)  “Economising, Strategising and the Vertical Boundaries of the Firm”

Molana, Hassan and Catia Montagna (2015)  “Selection, Trade, and Employment: the Strategic Use of Subsidies”

Rotunno, Lorenzo and Adrian Wood (2015)  “Wages and endowments in a globalised world”

Social Insurance Programs

Mannheim, Germany
June 15-18, 2016

Convenors:
Luigi Pistaferri, Stanford University
Josef Zweimüller, University of Zurich

Co-organized with:
CESifo, Munich
MaTax, ZEW Mannheim and University of Mannheim
Office of Tax Policy Research, University of Michigan
Oxford University Centre for Business Taxation

The aim of IIPF Schools is to provide a forum in which new researchers can meet to learn about and discuss issues at the forefront of academic research in specific fields of public finance. Each School will be convened by leading and experienced researchers in the relevant field. The convenors will deliver lectures on, and provide an overview of, the School’s topic. New researchers will also have the opportunity to present their own research and receive constructive feedback.

The topic of the 2016 edition of the School will be Social Insurance Programs, and the convenors will be two distinguished experts on this topic:

•  Luigi Pistaferri, Professor of Economics, Stanford University.
•  Josef Zweimüller, Professor of Economics, University of Zurich.

Further details and current information

Financial Support
With support from co-organizers and other contributors, the IIPF will cover travel costs, accommodation and subsistence costs for a limited number of participants who are unable to raise funds elsewhere.

TAPES conference
Directly before the IIPF School, on June 13-15, 2016, the ZEW/NBER Trans-Atlantic Public Economics Seminar (TAPES) will be taking place at ZEW in Mannheim. The TAPES conference is often considered to be among the most important international conferences in the field of public economics. Participants at the IIPF Doctoral School 2016 are welcome to attend the workshop. More information

Applications
Places in the School are limited. Anyone who is currently enrolled in a relevant PhD programme, or has graduated from a relevant PhD programme within the last 3 years, is invited to apply to participate in the School. The IIPF especially encourages applications from low and middle income countries.
To apply, please send an email to school@iipf.org by February 29, 2016. The email should contain the following information:

•  your CV, including details of PhD courses attended, and PhD supervisors;
•  a brief summary of your research agenda;
•  a research paper (if you wish to present it at the School; this is not required);
• an indication of whether you need support for expenses for participating;
• an indication of whether you would like to attend the TAPES conference (this does not affect acceptance probability);
• one letter of reference, preferably from your PhD supervisor.

Successful applicants will be notified by mid-March 2016.

Please contact Philipp Doerrenberg (doerrenberg@zew.de) or Barbara Hebele (hebele@ifo.de) in case of questions or inquiries.

The 39th Annual NBER Summer Institute will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts from July 11 to July 29, 2016. Workshops will focus on a number of different topics including:

The NBER provides continental breakfast and lunch each day, as well as limited support services. Authors whose papers are selected for presentation and who are invited to attend any of the workshops must pay for their own transportation and lodging.

Researchers who have completed their Ph.D.s, and who are interested in participating in the 2016 Summer Institute, should submit a copy of the paper they would like considered for the program, or a one page abstract if the paper is not complete, no later than March 25, 2016. Please note that the following workshops will only consider completed manuscripts (abstracts will not be considered): Asset Pricing, Corporate Finance, Economic Fluctuations and Growth, Energy and Environmental Economics, Law and Economics, Monetary Economics, and Political Economy. Questions can be sent to .

The call for papers can also be found online at http://www.nber.org/callforpapers/CallSI2016.html

The School of Business Administration, University of San Diego, anticipates a tenure-track Assistant Professor position to begin Fall 2016, pending budget approval. The successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in Economics prior to the start of the appointment and is expected to maintain a record of high quality scholarly achievement and dedication to teaching excellence in a liberal arts environment. We have primary interests in the fields of Macroeconomics/International Macroeconomics or Applied Econometrics/Forecasting/Data Analytics. The University of San Diego is a private, Catholic institution that embraces diversity and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
Teaching responsibilities will likely include field courses that reflect the candidate’s research and teaching interests at either the undergraduate or graduate (MBA) levels, along with principles of economics and/or introductory business statistics.

Application Procedure: Step 1: Submit through JOE the following: (1) detailed cover letter addressing your interest in this position and this university, (2) curriculum vita, (3) statements on teaching and research, (4) teaching evaluations, (5) job market paper, and (6) three letters of reference, at least one of which addresses teaching. Step 2: Go towww.sandiego.edu/jobs and register for job IRC18634. Fill in the required personal data and upload only your Resume.

Keynote speaker: Dr Giammario Impullitti (University of Nottingham)

Objectives

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.The objective of the Conference is to bring together a number of young researchers to discuss their own research ideas with established researchers in a relaxed atmosphere. The Conference is open to graduate students, as well as to post-docs, engaged in the preparation or revision of a doctoral dissertation. Speakers will be selected on the basis of submitted papers or an extended abstract.

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. Those who are invited to present a paper are expected to deliver a complete paper before the Conference and in time for distribution among the participants.

Applications should be sent by e-mail to:

Dr Roberto Bonfatti (roberto.bonfatti@nottingham.ac.uk)
Deadline for submission: 30 January 2016

Finance

There is an £180 registration fee to contribute towards costs, which includes up to two nights’ accommodation (13th and 14th April).

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 the website

Organized by:
Trade Policy Research Network, CEPR
Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, EUI, Florence
TEDU-Trade Research Center, Ankara
World Trade Institute, Bern

We invite submissions of papers and expressions of interest in attending the Second Empirical Investigations in Services Trade (EIST) conference.  The meeting will take place on June 15-16 in Florence, Italy, hosted by the Global Governance Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre, European University Institute.

The theme of the conference is economic analysis of trade and investment in services. We welcome submissions related to any aspect of international trade and investment in services, including empirical analyses of sectoral policy and regulation and trade and investment agreements, analysis using firm-level data, and papers on the role of services in value chains.

Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered for successful applicants. The meeting is open to attendees who are not presenting papers, subject to space constraints. Participants who are interested in attending but are not presenting papers must fund their own travel expenses.

Conference Format: The program will include 10-12 papers, with one hour per paper devoted to presentation, discussant remarks, and open discussion.

Submissions:
The (draft) papers should be submitted by Saturday 27 February 2016. Selections will be made and authors notified by March 15. A final conference schedule will be posted on the conference website by April 30.
– Please submit only completed or nearly completed papers.
– Papers should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, to Mia Saugman: .

Conference Registration:
– Please notify Mia Saugman if you would like to attend but are not submitting a paper, and, if so, would be willing to serve as a discussant.

The Scientific Committee
Nazire Nergiz Dinçer, TEDU
Joseph Francois, University of Bern & CEPR
Bernard Hoekman, EUI & CEPR
Ayça Tekin-Koru, TEDU