Forthcoming Events

We are writing to invite you to submit a paper or to express your interest in attending CEPR's 2019 European Research Workshop in International Trade (ERWIT) to be held in London, 5-7 June 2019, in cooperation with Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. Papers are invited on any trade-related issues.

ERWIT is an annual workshop that brings together international economists from across Europe and key researchers from outside the region. The workshop disseminates the findings of recent research on international trade, and presentations often involve exploratory rather than finished papers. It provides a unique opportunity to discuss trade-related research in a relaxed atmosphere.

The workshop will run for 3 days (from the morning of Wednesday 5 June until the early afternoon of Friday 7 June, with arrival on Tuesday 4 June). CEPR and the local organisers will offer some funding for travel and accommodation but at this stage cannot guarantee funding for all participants. If you have alternative research travel funding at your disposal, we encourage you to indicate your willingness to use this to attend the event on your reply form. This will help fund travel for participants who do not have other sources of funding, young researchers in particular. Where funding is provided for travel costs, this will be in accordance with the CEPR Travel Guidelines.

Kindly note that it will not be possible to accept all applications to attend the event. At this stage, we would thus like you to simply confirm your interest in attending the meeting and indicate whether or not you wish to present a paper. When selecting papers, some preference will be given to researchers who have not presented at ERWIT recently, although we still encourage everyone to apply.

Authors who are CEPR members can upload their submission on https://portal.cepr.org/european-research-workshop-international-trade-erwit-2019. 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. The deadline for submissions is 18:00 (BST), Sunday 9 December 2018.

If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mandy Chan, Events Officer at mchan@cepr.org or +44 20 7183 8804.

We are pleased to announce details of the latest EABCN Training School; a three-day course titled ?Inference in Macro Models: From Big data to Structural Analysis?. Domenico Giannone and Giorgio Primiceri will teach the course. It is primarily aimed at participants in the Euro Area Business Cycle Network but applications will also be considered from doctoral students, post-doctoral researchers and economists working in central banks and government institutions outside of the network, as well as commercial organisations (fees applicable for non-network organisations).

Course Contents

This course covers methods designed to deal with prediction with ?big data? in macroeconomics, and to conduct structural analysis. The three main subjects of the course are: (i) predictive regressions with big data; (ii) Bayesian VARs, as a popular example of big data multivariate models, which also represent a bridge between reduced-form and structural models; (iii) DSGE models, which have become the most popular tool for structural and policy analysis. We will also touch upon several other topics, such as state-space models, Monte Carlo methods, model comparison and model choice. Along the way, we will discuss applications to forecasting economic activity with large datasets, potential output and the natural rate of interest, scenario and counterfactual analysis. An approximate outline is as follows:

Prediction with big data: (a) The curse of dimensionality: symptoms and cures; (b) Brief introductions to Bayesian inference; (c) Priors and their connection with regularisation and shrinkage techniques.

VARs and BVARs: (a) Prior distributions and numerical techniques to sample from posterior distributions; (b) The selection of the regularisation parameter/prior tightness; (c) Unconditional forecast; (d) Conditional forecasts and scenario analysis.

DSGE models: (a) Model specification; (b) Bayesian inference; (c) using DSGE models for counterfactual analysis and to estimate fundamental objects for the conduct of monetary policy, e.g. potential output and the natural rate of interest.

On each of the three days the classes will follow the below schedule.

10:30: Lecture

11:00-12:30: Lecture

14:00-15:30: Practical

Travel and Accomodation The course will take place at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). Participants will be invited to make their own arrangements regarding their travel, accommodation and meals. Further information will be available to successful applicants.

How to apply Candidates should apply online by uploading their CV by 6pm (GMT), Friday 1 March, 2019. If you do not have a personal profile, you can create one here https://www.cepr.org/active/accounts/register.php . You may also want to refer to our Guidelines on how to register online for CEPR Meetings at www.cepr.org/content/Electronic-Meetings-Organisation . If you have any issues logging in, please contact Mariolina Ciccone, Events Officer at CEPR at mciccone@cepr.org or +44(0) 20 7183 8809. PhD students should also send a statement that specifies the ways participating in the school will be useful for their current research (max 300 words). Please do so by either uploading an additional file or filling the "Comments" field. Participants from non-academic institutions where the employer is not a member of the EABCN network are charged a course fee of 2000 euro.

About the Instructors Domenico Giannone is Assistant Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. He holds a PhD from the Université libre de Bruxelles and has been an Assistant Professor at LUISS University of Rome and Professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles. He has also worked as an Economist at the Monetary Policy Research Division of the European Central Bank and has been the scientific coordinator of the Euro Area Business Cycle Network. Domenico is a research fellow of the CEPR, and an associate editor for the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Applied Econometrics, the International Journal of Forecasting, and Empirical Economics. His main areas of research are time series econometrics, forecasting, monetary policy, and business cycles.

We invite papers on the economics of religion for the CEPR Workshop on the Economics of Religion on June 10-11, 2019 in Venice, Italy, at the premises of the University of Warwick.

The keynote speakers are:

Maristella Botticini (Bocconi University and CEPR)
Rachel McCleary (Harvard University)
Robert Barro (Harvard University)
Timur Kuran (Duke University)

Only papers on religion will be considered. From previous experience, we expect a large number of submissions, and we will unfortunately not be able to accommodate everyone. We will cover expenses for all presenters and discussants.

Submission deadline: December 7, 2018.

? The impact of environmental quality on individual productivity, employment, and well-being

?The impact of climate change on emerging markets

? The role of governments and firms in fighting climate change

? Firm-level energy efficiency and how to improve it

? Climate change and economic (in)equality across and within countries

? Greening the financial system

? Corporate environmental responsibility

? Climate change and agricultural productivity

? Stranded assets for energy and carbon intensive industries

? Agency and governance problems that distort corporate climate risk management

? Environmental policies and macroeconomic dynamics

? Behavioural foundations of environmentally (un-)friendly consumer actions

? The environment and network effects

The symposium features keynote talks by Catherine Wolfram (University of California, Berkeley) and Arik Levinson (Georgetown University).

Authors of accepted papers will be invited (without obligation) to submit their papers for a special issue of the Economics of Transition and Institutional Change. Accommodation expenses will be covered for speakers and discussants. Travel costs will be reimbursed in accordance with CEPR?s expense guidelines: https://cepr.org/sites/default/files/CEPR%20TRVL%20GUIDELINES%202018.pdf

To submit a paper (full papers accepted only), please send an email to Lucie Newman at NewmanL@ebrd.com. In the subject header please add ?Submission: Environmental Economics and the Green Transition? and nothing else. In the case of multiple-authored papers, indicate who will present and whether or not the presenter would also be willing to act as a discussant. The submission deadline is 8 February 2019 and authors will be notified about the acceptance of papers by 22 March 2019.

The conference will be held at the EBRD, One Exchange Square, London. The conference programme starts on Thursday morning (13 June) and ends on Friday afternoon (14 June).

An invitation-only conference dinner will be held on Thursday evening. Details about the sponsors:

https://www.ebrd.com/home

https://cepr.org

http://services.bepress.com/eot/

http://www.lse.ac.uk/geography-and-environment

ORGANISING AND PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Cevat Giray Aksoy (EBRD, London School of Economics)

Ralph De Haas (EBRD and Tilburg University)

Tatyana Deryugina (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 

Olivier Deschenes (University of California - Santa Barbara) 

Eugenie Dugoua (London School of Economics) 

Guido Friebel (Goethe University and CEPR)

Sergei Guriev (EBRD, Sciences Po and CEPR)

Vernon Henderson (London School of Economics and CEPR) 

Erin Mansur (Dartmouth)

Ralf Martin (Imperial College London) 

Susana Mourato (London School of Economics)

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We invite you to submit a paper or express interest in attending the 2019 BoI/CEPR/IZA Annual Symposium in Labour Economics, taking place on 13-14 June 2019 and hosted by the Bank of Italy in Rome.

The keynote speakers are Magne Mogstad (University of Chicago) and Amanda Pallais (Harvard University).

The goal of the symposium is to bring together leading economists working in any area of labour economics. To foster the desired interaction, we ask that participants stay for the entire duration of the conference. The programme will start on Thursday morning (13th) and end on Friday afternoon (14th).

Funding

Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered according to CEPR guidelines. Meals taken during the conference will be covered for all participants.

How to apply

Authors who are CEPR members can upload their submission by visiting the call for papers webpage. If you do not currently have a CEPR profile, please create a new profile here and then click on the registration link. Please include the paper you wish to submit, or indicate if you would like to participate without presenting a paper. You will also be asked to specify your funding requirements.

If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mariolina Ciccone, Events Officer at mciccone@cepr.org or +44 20 7183 8809 quoting "4594 - Annual Symposium in Labour Economics 2019" in the subject line.

The deadline for submissions is 6pm (GMT), Friday 15 February 2019. We aim to notify successful applicants by early March 2019.

Organisers:

Francesco D'Amuri (Bank of Italy)

Daniel Hamermesh (University of Texas Austin, NBER and IZA)

Claudio Michelacci (EIEF, CEPR and IZA)

Barbara Petrongolo (Queen Mary University of London, CEP, CEPR and IZA)

Eliana Viviano (Bank of Italy)

The organisers and steering committee of the 20th CEPR Conference on Applied Industrial Organisation (IO) are writing to invite you to submit a paper or to express your interest in attending the conference, which will take place in Madrid, 13-15 June 2019. The conference will be organised by Natalia Fabra (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and CEPR), Volker Nocke (University of Mannheim, NBER and CEPR) and Ali Yurukoglu (Stanford University and NBER).

The event is hosted by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and will take place at Caixa Forum, across the street from the Prado Museum in central Madrid. Financial support for the conference is generously provided by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Obra Social La Caixa, Journal of Industrial Economics (JIE), University of Zurich, European Research Council (ERC), and CEPR.

Conference Details:

The Applied IO conference series seeks to contribute to the understanding of the breadth of topics analysed within the field of Industrial Organisation, including demand, productivity, competition in the short- and long-run, innovation, investment, and auctions, to develop empirical protocols and tests of economic models, to promote the exchange and the dissemination of results at the forefront of research, and finally, to evaluate current competition and regulation policies. It will cover the state of the art in both theoretical and empirical Industrial Organisation.

Last year the conference "returned to its roots" and witnessed enhanced collaboration between IO economists from both sides of the Atlantic. This year the conference hopes to sustain this development and, in addition, particularly seeks submissions analysing research questions using theoretical methods. To foster informed discussion of such work, we are happy to confirm the attendance and participation of Heski Bar-Isaac (Toronto), Dirk Bergemann (Yale), Luis Cabral (NYU), Joe Harrington (Penn), Igal Hendel (Northwestern), Ken Hendricks (Wisconsin), Justin Johnson (Cornell), Bruno Jullien (Toulouse), Leslie Marx (Duke), Massimo Motta (UPF), Xavier Vives (IESE), Frank Wolak (Stanford), and Jidong Zhou (Yale).

Young European researchers are encouraged to apply to the concurrent CEPR/JIE School for Industrial Organisation. The goal of the school is to provide a forum for young European researchers in Applied IO to get exposure for and receive feedback on their work. In an experimental format this year, researchers accepted to the school will give very short presentations of their work at some point during the conference and participate in poster sessions during extended lunch periods on both full days of the conference. Given its goals, only young researchers pursuing or having recently (within four years) received a PhD from a European economics program are eligible. Preference will be given to those students expecting to go on the academic job market in 2019-20, with additional (though lesser) preference given to other applicants according to their time since PhD completion.

Applicants to the main conference that are eligible and wish to also be considered for the school should indicate such with their submission. In such cases, no separate school application is necessary. Further details about the school are included in its own Call for Papers available here: https://cepr.org/sites/default/files/cepr.madrid.2019.Applied%20IO%20SCHOOL%20call%20for%20papers.FINAL_6.pdf.

Please forward this call to others, especially junior faculty, who might have papers suitable for the conference or school. Papers will be selected by a committee of the organisers. Anyone may sign up to receive future calls for this conference at https://www.econ.uzh.ch/en/people/faculty/crawford/cepr.html.

Paper Submissions and Deadlines:

The deadline for submissions is Friday 18 January, 2019 at 18:00 (GMT). Authors will be notified about whether their paper has been accepted in March 2019.

Authors can upload their submission by visiting the registration link: https://portal.cepr.org/cepr-conference-applied-industrial-organisation and logging into your CEPR account. If you do not currently have a CEPR account, please create a new profile here https://portal.cepr.org/user/register and then click on the registration link above. If you have any difficulties registering for this meeting, please contact Mandy Chan, Events Officer, at mchan@cepr.org or +44 20 7183 8804.

Accommodation and Accommodation Funding:

We have reserved a block of rooms for the conference via a Madrid-based travel agency. We have learned that 13-15 June is a particularly busy time due to a large concurrent conference in the Madrid city centre. Accepted participants will be sent the travel agency website information and should go there as soon as possible to select the hotel at which they wish to stay and indicate whether their accommodation expenses will be covered by the CEPR (as indicated in their acceptance letter).

We are unfortunately unable to guarantee accommodation expenses will be covered for all participants on the programme. Accommodation expenses for participants not on the program are not often funded, but will be considered. Please let us know with your submission whether you wish to be considered for accommodation funding. Funding priority will be given to junior faculty. As typical, travel expenses will only be covered in exceptional circumstances according to the usual CEPR Travel Guidelines.

Please follow the instructions below after you have logged in:

1) Click on Register/Submit

2) Click on "Yes, I would like to attend"

3) Select to attend both sessions "CEPR Conference on Applied Industrial Organisation and CEPR/JIE School for Industrial Organisation"

4) Select whether you need travel and accommodation funding

5) Select whether you would be happy to be a discussant

6) If you want to submit a paper, please make sure you click on "Would you like to submit a paper?", upload your paper, provide the paper title, abstract and the email addresses of any co-authors.

7) Select whether or not "I would like to attend even if my paper is not selected for the main programme"

8) This is very important, please select "Which session would you like to submit your paper to?" There are three choices:

i. The main CEPR Conference on Applied Industrial Organisation

ii. The CEPR/JIE School for Industrial Organisation

iii. Tick both boxes to be considered for the main conference and the school

9) If you select to submit your paper for the CEPR/JIE School for Industrial Organisation, select "Would you like to submit a CV?" to upload or provide a link your CV to support your application. This is compulsory for the CEPR/JIE School for Industrial Organisation applications only.

10) Select whether you are a PhD student.

We invite you to submit a paper proposal or express interest in attending the 2019 CEPR Public Economics Symposium. The Symposium will take place on 20-21 June 2019, hosted by the Department of Economics and the UBS International Center of Economics in Society at the University of Zurich.

The goal of the symposium is to provide a forum for high-quality work in public economics and to bring together economists in the field from across Europe as well as key researchers from outside the region. Paper proposals are invited in any area of public economics. Both theoretical and empirical work is welcome.

This year, the general theme of the symposium is ?Public Finance: Macro Insights.? We are therefore particularly interested in topics related to macroeconomic approaches and insights to our understanding of recent inequality trends, the effects of public policies, such as social insurance or tax and transfer programs, and their welfare consequences.

Our keynote speaker for the conference will be Iván Werning (MIT).

The event provides an opportunity for researchers from different universities and countries to discuss their work in a relaxed atmosphere and to develop long-term collaborative relationships. It also provides an opportunity for young researchers to meet and discuss their work with senior economists. The conference brings together around 40 economists for a period of two days. To foster the desired interaction we ask that participants stay for the entire duration of the symposium.

Funding

Travel and accommodation expenses will be covered for all participants according to the CEPR Travel Guidelines. If you could contribute to the costs of your attendance from a research grant at your disposal, however, this would free up funds for other participants. Please indicate in your application whether you will be able to cover your own travel costs, or whether you will require funding from CEPR.

How to apply

For CEPR members, please submit your paper via the CEPR online system by visiting the call for paper webpage . If you do not have a personal profile to use this area of the CEPR website as yet, you can create one here https://www.cepr.org/active/accounts/register.php. You may also want to refer to our Guidelines on how to register online for CEPR Meetings at www.cepr.org/content/Electronic-Meetings-Organisation.

If you have any difficulty in applying or you are NOT a CEPR member, please email Mariolina Ciccone in the CEPR events team, at mciccone@cepr.org with the subject header "3576-PE Annual Symposium 2019". Please include the paper you wish to submit in the email, or indicate if you would like to participate without presenting a paper.

If you wish to attend please do ensure that your application and paper reach CEPR by 18:00 (GMT) January 20, 2019. We cannot accept submissions received after this date. It may not be possible to accept all applications to attend this symposium if demand exceeds the space available. We aim to notify successful applicants by the end of February 2019.

Organisers

Camille Landais, London School of Economics and CEPR

This workshop aims to consider the impacts of post-crisis reforms and to understand innovations and emerging risks that could impact individual financial institutions and the financial system more broadly.

We invite empirical and theoretical contributions on any topic that can help address these issues. Questions of interest include:

• Assessing the impact of post-crisis reforms.
• Are new methods needed for evaluating regulation and regulatory reforms?
• Are there unintended consequences of regulation? Do these consequences present new risks and challenges?
• Post-crisis regulation and new risks.
• Is the current regulatory framework flexible enough to cover new risks and innovations and sufficiently forward looking to address risks that differ from those that were prevalent during the last crisis?
• How will emerging risks be detected if there is a diminished role for traditional intermediaries?
• Are new funding instruments creating new types of risk? For example, are systemically important financial institutions exposed to the risks associated with contingent capital issuance? How much of this risk is held outside the global financial system?
• What are the challenges and opportunities created by new technologies? How may new technologies impact the regulatory framework of the future?
• What is the impact of distributed ledger technologies (such as blockchain) on market structure and business models? What is the impact of big data, machine learning and artificial intelligience on banking? Is more, or less, regulation needed?
• How will climate change affect bank risk and how should banks deal with this new risk? Should we rethink the risk taxonomy? For example, should climate change be included in stress testing? Are more disclosures needed for that to occur?

Interested parties should submit their draft papers and any queries to Martin Birn of the Basel Committee's Secretariat at Martin.Birn@bis.org. The submission deadline is 31 March 2019. Contributors will be notified by 30 April 2019.

The workshop aims to bring together leading academics, representatives of the Basel Committee member organisations and other central bankers and bank supervisors as well as market participants. The Basel Committee will contribute toward the cost of academic speakers? travel and accommodation expenses.