This year’s theme is “Active Investing and Arbitrage Capital, with a session on Pension Funds.”

We seek contributions on the role and functioning of the public sector at macroeconomic, sectoral and microeconomic levels in both advanced and emerging market economies. We welcome theoretical, empirical and policy relevant papers bearing on the state of public sector and of fiscal policies in...

Topics: - Economic and Social Development - Legal Aspects of Economic and Social Development in International Relations - Legal Aspects of Environment Protection, Energy Efficiency and Use of Renewable Energy Sources - International Approach.

Academics, market practitioners, and government agencies (particularly central banks) are especially concerned that fluctuations in real estate markets could affect the financial stability through many channels. They include (but not limited to): - wealth effect of households; - collateral...

Programme: - Impact of Large Investors in Distressed Housing Markets - The Impact of US Monetary Policy and Other External Shocks on the Hong Kong Economy: A Factor-augmented VAR Approach - VaR and Stress Test: The Impact of Fat-Tail Risk and Systemic Risk on Capital Requirements of Financial...

Two central themes will be related to Asia and the Pacific studies and the PRC economy. The Asia and the Pacific region has experienced market-oriented reforms, openness and globalization, economic regionalization, cross-border interactions, integration, etc., which underpin the first theme....

The conference solicits papers, theoretical and/or empirical, in relation to economic growth and development, international trade and finance, and macroeconomics and economic dynamics. Economists are cordially invited to submit papers for presentation in the conference.

Topics: - Asian financial development and the ‘Washington Consensus’ - Bailouts, rescues, bail-ins and living wills in the financial industry - Lobby power over making laws, rules and market structure (who controls shaping the rules?) - The law and politics of monetary policy in a global...

All submissions on applied macroeconomics will be considered, but submissions on those issues are especially encouraged.