The organizers of this conference have asked me to send along the following
call for papers:
***Call for Papers***
Conference on International Macro-Finance
The International Monetary Fund and the World Economy and Finance Research
Programme of the UK Economic and Social Research Council will hold a
conference on international macro-finance at the IMF headquarters in
Washington, DC, on April 24-25, 2008. The conference will provide a forum to
present recent theoretical and empirical research narrowing the gap between
"open-economy macro" and "finance" approaches to international financial
issues.
While there is a very active literature on macro-finance linkages in the
context of closed economies, applications to an open economy setting have
just begun. International finance has traditionally relied on partial
equilibrium analyses, while open-economy macroeconomics has avoided
incorporating realistic financial features in its general equilibrium models
because of the technical difficulties of doing so. Recent methodological
advances now permit researchers to embed more realistic financial market
structure in open-economy models. This conference aims at stimulating the
innovation process and its diffusion to the analysis of relevant policy
issues. Possible topics using this new approach include (but are not
restricted to):
. Monetary policy and asset prices in an open economy
. Policies for managing capital flows
. Global liquidity and credit risk
. International risk sharing and financial markets
. General equilibrium international portfolio models
. Reserve management and sovereign wealth funds
. Exchange rates and financial markets
SUBMISSION OF PAPERS
Interested authors should submit either a draft of the paper or a detailed
abstract by January 15, 2008 to RESIMF_at_imf.org. In the selection process,
preference will be given to papers that are already in draft form. The final
versions of the papers selected for the conference are due by April 10,
2008.
Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a
special issue of the Journal of International Economics (JIE), subject to
the standard JIE refereeing procedures. The editors will aim to expedite the
editorial process. Inquiries about the conference may be directed to
RESIMF_at_imf.org.
Conference Organizers:
Michael Devereux (University of British Columbia), Akito Matsumoto (IMF),
Alessandro Rebucci (IMF), and Alan Sutherland (University of St Andrews).
EXPENSES: The conference will cover economy class travel and accommodation
expenses for paper presenters and discussants.
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Charles Engel
Department of Economics
University of Wisconsin
1180 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706-1393
Phone: (608) 262-3697
Received on Thu Oct 11 2007 - 16:58:50 EDT
