The PEWS 2020 conference has been postponed until fall 2020. Both the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins have cancelled in-person classes, meetings, and events until further notice due to the COVID-19 outbreak.

URPE invites proposals for complete sessions and individual papers for the URPE at ASSA annual meeting. We welcome proposals on radical political economic theory and applied analysis from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives.

CONFERENCE PROGRAM Session 1: - “Default and the Maturity Structure in Sovereign Bonds” - “Default Risk of Advanced Economies: An Empirical Analysis of Credit Default Swaps during the Financial Crisis” Session 2: - “Sovereign Default, Domestic Banks, and Financial Institutions” Lunch...