Please note that this event has been postponed to Spring 2021 - date TBC.

You are invited to submit a paper to the Symposium on climate change, financial markets and green growth, organised by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (ERBD), and the ECB. The symposium will provide a platform for researchers and policymakers to discuss new research and to identify areas where further academic and policy-oriented work is needed. Areas of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

• financial markets, monetary policy and climate change;
• climate risks faced by households, firms, investors and banks;
• environmental policies and macroeconomic dynamics;
• climate change, financial stability and prudential supervision;
• incorporating climate change into macroeconomic modelling and growth forecasts;
• measuring the costs of climate change as well as climate change mitigation and adaptation;
• greening the financial system;
• the impact of environmental quality on individual productivity, employment, and well-being;
• the role of governments and firms in fighting climate change;
• firm-level energy efficiency and how to improve it;
• corporate environmental responsibility;
• stranded assets for energy and carbon-intensive industries.

The cost of accommodation and travel will be covered for speakers and discussants.

If you are interested in participating, please email your full paper to Lucie Newman at [email protected]. The subject line should read "Submission: Climate Change, Finance and Green Growth". If a paper has more than one author, please indicate who will present it and whether or not the presenter would also be willing to act as a discussant. The submission deadline is 10 February 2020 and authors will be notified about whether their papers have been accepted by 25 February 2020.

The conference will be held at the ECB, Sonnemannstrasse 20, Frankfurt. An invitation-only conference dinner will be held on the evening of 6 May.

Details about the sponsors and organisers:

https://www.ecb.europa.eu, https://www.ebrd.com/home, https://cepr.org/

ORGANISING AND PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

The spread of the coronavirus has resulted in many events around the world being reformatted to allow for remote participation. Please note that the CEPR Fifth European Workshop on Household Finance will take place completely virtually via online webinars. Invitations to register for the online webinars will be circulated shortly.

Please use Firefox, Chrome, Edge or any other web browser that is not Internet Explorer when applying online. Detailed instructions on how to submit a paper can be found at the bottom of this page.

The CEPR Network on Household Finance and Swedish House of Finance are organising the Fifth European Household Finance Workshop on 7-9 May 2020 with the support of the Think Forward Initiative (TFI) and EIEF. The objective of this workshop is to host presentations and foster interaction between Senior and Junior Researchers working in the area of household finance. The workshop will include state-of-the-art research on household financial behaviour and on how this is influenced by other choices, government policies, and the overall economic environment. The two-day research workshop is preceded by a CEPR-TFI event on "Household Welfare: Do we need big data?", organised by Paolo Sodini (Stockholm School of Economics, SHoF, and CEPR), at 17:30 on Thursday 7 May at the Swedish House of Finance (Drottninggatan 98).

We solicit papers in the following areas, but other related areas may also be considered:

• Patterns of asset allocation and debt behaviour over the life cycle
• Financing retirement and the demographic transition
• Consumer indebtedness, financial distress and default decisions
• Behavioural approaches to household finances
• Financial literacy and financial education programmes
• Trust, subjective expectations, pessimism, and financial decisions
• International comparisons of household finances using micro-data
• Cognitive and genetic studies on individual financial performance
• Financial advice and legal protection of investors and borrowers
• The impact of technology on household financial behaviour

The organisers encourage submissions from PhD students in household finance. Students must apply online stating that they are a PhD student and supply their CV. Students should note that, from 2020 on, the best student paper prize will only be awarded once a year at the Household Finance Conference which takes place every Autumn. So, students who want their paper to be considered for the prize should submit it to the Autumn conference, but they are welcome to submit another paper to the Spring workshop.

Programme Committee

Steffen Andersen (Copenhagen Business School and CEPR), Laurent Calvet (EDHEC Business School, CFS and CEPR), John Campbell (Harvard University and NBER), Joao Cocco (London Business School and CEPR), Russell Cooper (European University Institute), Francisco Gomes (London Business School and CEPR), Luigi Guiso (EIEF and CEPR), Michael Haliassos (Goethe University Frankfurt and CEPR), Tullio Jappelli (University of Naples Federico II, CSEF and CEPR), Alex Michaelides (Imperial College and CEPR), Giovanna Nicodano (Collegio Carlo Alberto, University of Torino), Monica Paiella (University of Naples Parthenope and CEPR), Wenlan Qian (National University of Singapore), Tarun Ramadorai (Imperial College and CEPR), Paolo Sodini (Stockholm School of Economics, SHoF, and CEPR), Michele Tertilt (University of Mannheim and CEPR), and Raman Uppal (EDHEC and CEPR).

Local Organiser: Paolo Sodini (Stockholm School of Economics, SHoF, and CEPR).

Workshop Venue: The workshop will take place on the premises of Norra Latin (Drottninggatan 71b).

Paper Submission and Deadline

The submission fee for each paper is 50 Euro and proceeds will contribute to covering workshop costs. The submission fee is waived for PhD students only. Full instructions on the submission process can be found below.

a) For others than PhD students

1. Please make the submission fee payment of 50 Euro via the following link on CEPR?s Paypal account https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=J7RZNA2M434QE. If you do not have an existing Paypal account, you can use the guest checkout feature. Please make sure that you select the correct country/region using the dropdown list before filling in your card details and click on the ?Pay Now? button to complete the transaction.

2. Please submit your paper using the CEPR portal. Authors who are CEPR members can upload their submission on https://portal.cepr.org/fifth-european-workshop-household-finance . If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create one at https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above. Click on the "Register/Submit" button in order to submit your paper only, there will be a separate workshop registration process to express your interest in attending the workshop at a later stage.

3. When submitting your paper, please indicate whether you have funds to cover your own travel and accommodation costs, or whether you will require funding. This information does not affect inclusion of your paper, but it will be used to determine the level of your reimbursement, if any.

b) For PhD students

1. Please submit your paper using the CEPR portal. Authors who are CEPR members can upload their submission on https://portal.cepr.org/fifth-european-workshop-household-finance. If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create one at https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above. Click on the ?Register/Submit? button in order to submit your paper only, there will be a separate workshop registration process to express your interest in attending the workshop at a later stage.

2. When submitting your paper, please indicate whether you will be able to cover your own travel and accommodation costs, or whether you will require funding. This information will not affect selection of your paper, but it will be used to determine the level of your reimbursement, if any. Please also indicate clearly that you are a PhD student and submit your CV. In case your paper is co-authored, please indicate also whether all your coauthors were PhD students at the time of writing the paper.

The deadline for submissions is 18:00 (GMT), Wednesday 15 January 2020. Expenses of paper presenters and discussants will be covered, unless they indicate that they are able to cover their own expenses. Limited support funds for PhD students will also be available. Applications for attendance without a paper presentation will be possible once the programme is finalised, and available places will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mandy Chan, Senior Events Officer at [email protected] or +44 20 7183 8804.

Danish universities are currently closed due to the ongoing pandemic. All research events in the Copenhagen area are therefore cancelled or put on hold until further notice. CopenhagenMacro Days is postponed - date TBC

Danmarks Nationalbank and the University of Copenhagen will host on 11-12 May the CopenhagenMacro Days, a series of events bringing together leading researchers, junior scholars and experts from the policy community in the field of macroeconomics, macro-labour, macro-finance and international economics. New challenges have taken centre stage over the last decade, from climate and demographic changes, to the impact of new technologies on labour markets and household behaviour, to long-term modifications in the way monetary policy is conducted. The aim of CopenhagenMacro Days is to bring together established researchers and promising young stars to discuss the most interesting research in macroeconomics that has followed from rethinking many economic paradigms.

On 12 May 2020 Danmarks Nationalbank and the University of Copenhagen organise a conference inviting submissions in all fields of macroeconomics, including but not limited to:

- Monetary and fiscal policy in a low inflation-low interest rate environment - Financial frictions and macroeconomic outcomes - Climate and demographic changes, and macroeconomic fluctuations - The impact of new technologies on firms' and households' behaviour

Please submit your paper by February 28th, 2020, to [email protected]. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by March 5th, 2020. A discussant will be assigned to each presenter. Travel and accommodation expenses will be reimbursed for academic participants. People who submit may also be invited for participation in the role of discussants. Confirmed speakers include:

Per Krusell (IIES, Stockholm University and CEPR)

Gauti Eggertsson (Brown University)

Morten O. Ravn (University College London and CEPR)

On 11 May 2020 the University of Copenhagen, with joint sponsorship from the Unicredit Foundation, organises a conference inviting the leading young PhD economists in macroeconomics graduating in 2020 to present and discuss their work. A prize of 1000 EUR will be awarded during the conference to the most promising junior macroeconomist, selected by the senior speakers in CopenhagenMacro days.The speakers will be selected by invitation only in early 2020 - no submission is necessary.

The spread of the coronavirus has resulted in many events around the world being cancelled, postponed or reformatted to allow for remote participation. Please note that CEPR is monitoring developments very carefully and liaising with all conference organisers regarding the best course of action to take for each event. If you are applying for or scheduled to attend one of our events, please look out for direct communications regarding your event from each organiser. If you have not yet received any specific advice we recommend that you hold off making any travel arrangements until further information has been given.

A joint meeting of the following programmes: International Macroeconomics and Finance (IMF), Monetary Economics and Fluctuations (MEF) and Macroeconomics and Growth (MG), hosted by the Banque de France, Paris, 13-15 May 2020.

ESSIM Format
The programme follows a flexible, condensed format allowing participants to attend both plenary sessions and specialised presentations over two and a half days:
- Wednesday 13th afternoon: Plenary tals
- Thursday 14th morning and afternoon: IMF programme presentatins, MEF programm presentations, MG programme presentations
- Friday 15thmorning: Plenary talks

All participants are expected to attend the plenary talks and the presentations of at least one programme. Participants can and are encouraged to stay for the full programme.

Guest Speakers:
Yuriy Gorodnichenko (University of California, Berkeley)
Stefanie Stantcheva (Harvard University and CEPR)
Matteo Maggiori (Harvard University and CEPR)

About ESSIM

ESSIM is an annual meeting that brings together about 75 economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. It provides a unique opportunity for macroeconomists from different research institutions and countries to discuss research in a relaxed atmosphere and to develop long-term collaborative relationships.

Participation at ESSIM

CEPR cannot accept all applications to attend ESSIM as demand always exceeds the space available. We try to operate the unavoidable rationing as fairly as possible, and in so doing, we assume that those who participate will at least attend the plenary talks and the talks of at least one programme area.
To respond, and if you are CEPR programme fellow / affiliate or have a CEPR online profile, please visit the ESSIM 2019 Call for Papers webpage and indicate whether or not you wish to present a paper or would be willing to act as a discussant. The deadline for replies is 18:00 GMT on Sunday 5 January 2020.

If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create a new profile here and then visit the call for papers website. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mariolina Ciccone in the CEPR Events team, at [email protected] or +44 20 7183 8809 with the subject line "1918 - ESSIM 2020".

Organisers:

Taking into account the current situation of the coronavirus pandemic we have decided to postpone the conference "Political Economy of Development and Conflict VIII", which was to be held in Barcelona, 14-15 May 2020. We will try to look for a date next autumn.

You are kindly invited to participate in the conference "Political Economy of Development and Conflict VIII" in Barcelona on Thursday-Friday, 14-15 May, 2020.

This year's speakers are: Brian G. Knight, Mathias Thoenig, Katia Zuravskaia, Marshall Burke, Nico Voigtländer, Thomas Fujiwara, Michael Callen, James Fenske, Christian Dippel.

There is economy apex travel and accommodation funding for a limited number of participants. Please email [email protected] if you are planning to participate.

The workshop is sponsored by "Ramon Areces Foundation" and IPEG and is held at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.

Please use Firefox, Chrome, Edge or any other web browser that is not Internet Explorer when applying online. Detailed instructions on how to submit a paper can be found at the bottom of this page.

This meeting has been postponed to a later date in 2020. Details to be confirmed.

Paper submissions in all areas of Finance are invited for this symposium. The symposium will take place on Thursday 14 May and Friday 15 May 2020, at the Shenzhen Finance Institute, Shenzhen, China.

One of the aims of this symposium is to bring together researchers from Europe and the Asia-Pacific interested in any area of financial economics. Both theoretical and empirical contributions are welcome.

For presenters based outside of Asia, we will reimburse up to US$1,500 economy airfare and 3 nights' accommodation. For presenters based in Asia, we will reimbursing economy airfare up to of US$500 and 3 nights? accommodation.

Authors who are CEPR members can upload their submission on https://portal.cepr.org/abfer-cepr-and-cuhk-second-annual-symposium-financial-economics. If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create a new profile here https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above.

If you wish to attend please do ensure that your application and paper reach CEPR by 6pm GMT/UTC, Monday 13 January 2020.

Submissions will be reviewed by the Programme Committee and based on their recommendations, the organisers will notify applicants in February 2020 and the programme will be finalised by early March 2020.

If you have any difficulties submitting your paper or registering for this meeting, please contact Mandy Chan, Events Officer at [email protected] or +44 20 7183 8804.

Yours sincerely,

Franklin Allen (Imperial College London and CEPR), Sudipto Dasgupta (Chinese University of Hong Kong and CEPR), Tao Shu (Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen & Shenzhen Finance Institute)

Programme Committee:

Corporate Finance

Bo Becker (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR), Ling Cen (CUHK), Amil Dasgupta (London School of Economics and CEPR), Andrew Ellul (Indiana University and CEPR), Daniel Ferreira (London School of Economics and CEPR), Xavier Giroud (Columbia Business School and CEPR), Mariassunta Giannetti (Stockholm School of Economics and CEPR), Jun-Koo Kang (NTU), Bart Lambrecht (Cambridge and CEPR), Ron Masulis (UNSW), Erwan Morellec (Swiss Finance Institute and CEPR), Enrique Schroth (Cass Business School and CEPR), Rik Sen (UNSW), Cong Wang (CUHK Shenzhen)

Banking and Financial Intermediation

Sumit Agarwal (NUS), Thorsten Beck (Cass School of Business and CEPR), Sudheer Chava (Georgia Tech), Chen Lin (HKU), Hans Degryse (Catholic University of Leuven and CEPR), Jie He (University of Georgia), Vasso Ioannidou (Lancaster University and CEPR), Steven Ongena (University of Zurich and CEPR), Wenlan Qian (NUS), Javier Suarez (CEMFI and CEPR)

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