Fwd: November 2013 Carnegie Rochester NYU Conference Call for Proposals

From: Carl Beck <cbeck_at_nber.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:07:04 -0500

>Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy
>
>CALL FOR PROPOSALS
>
>"A Century of Money, Banking, and Financial Instability"
>
>November 15-16, 2013
>
>The Carnegie-Rochester Conference on Public Policy is now soliciting
>papers for a conference on "A Century of Money, Banking, and
>Financial Instability." This Conference will be held at Carnegie
>Mellon University on November 15-16, 2013. The papers and comments
>are intended for publication in the July 2013 issue of the Journal
>of Monetary Economics.
>
>Coming a century after the founding of the Federal Reserve, the
>November 2013 Carnegie Rochester NYU conference seeks proposals to
>assess the historical record with the goal of improving future
>macroeconomic stabilization policy. Proposals should employ advances
>in monetary, banking, and financial theory informed by historical
>experience to address policy questions of the day.
>
>Of particular interest are: 1) Federal Reserve monetary and credit
>policies, 2) the role of financial frictions and monetary theory for
>understanding and regulating money markets and shadow banking, 3)
>the welfare-maximizing provision of public liquidity and liquidity
>guarantees, 4) the relevance of the Modigliani-Miller theorem for
>banking analysis and policy, 5) the consequences for social welfare
>of high capital requirements on depositories, 6) the macroeconomics
>of reforming money market fund regulations, 7) the macroeconomics of
>the exemption of repos from the automatic stay in bankruptcy, 8) the
>consequences of regulatory capture for banking and financial market
>regulation. Proposals with a theoretical, empirical, quantitative,
>or historical emphasis are welcome.
>
>The editors invite detailed abstracts of no more than two pages
>describing the proposed research paper. (If a preliminary version
>of the paper is available, authors may include it with their
>abstract.) Proposals should be submitted electronically to Sue
>North, Editorial Assistant for the Journal of Monetary Economics, by
>Monday, April 15, 2013 at
><mailto:north_at_simon.rochester.edu>north_at_simon.rochester.edu.
>
>The editors, in collaboration with the Carnegie-Rochester Advisory
>Board, will make the final selection of papers to be included in the
>Conference. Authors will be notified by Friday, May 3, 2013 if their
>paper has been selected. Authors will receive an honorarium of $2500
>and be expected to present their paper at the Conference. The
>papers should represent original research not presented or published
>elsewhere. Since the papers are intended for publication, authors
>will not be able to publish or reprint the work elsewhere without
>the permission of the editors and publisher. Please note that the
>editors will contact authors only if their paper is accepted.
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