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NBER: Reminder: Deadline for Call for Proposals for Project on Global Financial Crisis

Reminder: Deadline for Call for Proposals for Project on Global Financial Crisis

From: Carl Beck <cbeck_at_nber.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2010 15:52:36 -0400

A reminder that the deadline for submissions is April 19, 2010

>Call for Proposals
>NBER-Sloan Project on the Global Financial Crisis
>A research project to understand international aspects of the recent crisis
>
>Kristin Forbes, Jeffrey Frankel, and Charles Engel, organizers
>
>The Sloan Foundation has generously funded a
>project organized by the NBER on global aspects
>of the recent financial crisis. The project
>seeks to motivate new thinking about the global
>financial crisis and to provide a forum for
>academic researchers to discuss these ideas. It
>will provide a new body of research to advance
>our understanding of the mechanisms that led to
>the most severe global crisis since the Great
>Depression. This research should provide the
>intellectual underpinnings for policies to
>better manage and hopefully to reduce the
>likelihood of future financial crises.
>
>This project will pay a stipend for new research
>papers on topics answering questions such as:
>How did global imbalances contribute to the
>crisis? How was the crisis transmitted
>internationally? How has the global nature of
>the crisis affected macroeconomic policy
>responses, ranging from monetary and fiscal
>policy to banking regulation and the role of the
>dollar? Priority will be given to projects that
>are data intensive (involving the creation of
>new data or using existing data in new ways) and
>that have implications for policy. The research
>will be discussed at a series of conferences in
>Cambridge, MA, Washington, DC, and likely
>Bretton Woods, NH. The papers produced for the
>project will be considered for publication in a
>special symposium in the Journal of International Economics.
>
>Project and Conference Details: About 12
>proposals will be selected for inclusion in this
>project. Authors will receive an honorarium of
>$5000 per completed paper. Papers that involve
>the creation of new datasets or substantial new
>data-intensive work that is made publically
>available will also be eligible for an
>additional honorarium (up to $5000 per paper
>based on project characteristics). In addition
>to their research papers, authors will also be
>expected to prepare a short 1-3 page
>non-technical summary of their paper. All travel
>expenses related to the project will be covered,
>subject to the usual NBER guidelines.
>
>The proposals and initial work on the papers
>will be discussed at a pre-conference in the
>afternoons of July 14-15 in Cambridge, MA in
>conjunction with the NBER Summer Institute.
>Completed research papers will be discussed at
>an academic conference, likely held on June 3-4,
>2011 in Bretton Woods, NH. To distill these
>research insights for policymakers, summaries of
>selected papers will be presented at a short
>conference in Washington, DC before an audience
>of officials from central banks, finance
>ministries, international institutions and
>financial markets. This event will be held in
>September 2011 (in conjunction with the annual IMF-World Bank meetings).
>
>Research papers from this project will be
>included in the NBER working paper series and
>distributed through the extensive NBER research
>distribution network, including highlights in
>the NBER Reporter and the NBER Digest. The
>research papers, non-technical summaries, and
>associated data will be available on the NBER
>web site. Authors are required to submit their
>papers to be considered for inclusion in the
>symposium in the Journal of International
>Economics, subject to the normal refereeing process.
>
>Proposal Information and Topics: Proposals
>should be submitted by April 19, 2010 to
><http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=GFCs10>http://www.nber.org/confsubmit/backend/cfp?id=GFCs10.
>Any questions should be sent to Kristin Forbes
>at <mailto:kjforbes_at_mit.edu>kjforbes_at_mit.edu.
>Proposals should be at least 3-5 pages long and
>include: (1) the question that will be answered
>in the paper; (2) how this fits with existing
>academic literature; (3) what framework will be
>used to answer the questions; (4) a description
>of any data that will be used; (5) what
>implications the paper will have for policy; and
>(5) a brief timeline for completion of the
>paper. Any related work by the author(s) should
>also be referenced. Authors selected to
>participate in the project will be notified by mid-May of 2010.
>
>The project will focus on a wide range of issues
>related to international aspects of the global
>financial crisis. When selecting which proposals
>are included in the project, preference will be
>given to studies that are empirical­especially
>those that involve the creation of new data sets
>and/or that introduce academics to new data that
>have not been widely used. Authors from academic
>institutions may find it useful to partner with
>researchers at institutions with access to or
>expertise in international data­such as the
>Federal Reserve, BIS, IMF, World Bank, etc.
>Preference will also be given to topics that
>address issues of relevance to policymakers.
>This does not mean that the papers should
>prescribe policies, but instead that they
>provide the frameworks, tools, and/or insights
>that are useful in the formulation of policy.
>
>Suggestions for questions we hope to address are
>included in the attachment, but we are also open
>to proposals on topics not included in this list
>as long as they are related to international aspects of the crisis.

Received on Mon Apr 12 2010 - 15:52:36 EDT