1.Call For Papers- Munich Summer Institute 2017
May 29 to 31, 2017, Munich
From May 29 to 31, 2017, the Center for Law & Economics at ETH Zurich (http://www.lawecon.ethz.ch), the Institute for Strategy, Technology and Organization at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (http://www.en.isto.bwl.uni-muenchen.de) and the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition (http://www.ip.mpg.de) will jointly organize the second Munich Summer Institute 2017.
OVERVIEW: The Summer Institute will focus on three areas:
- Digitization, Strategy and Organization (chairs: Jorg Claussen and Tobias Kretschmer),
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship (chair: Dietmar Harhoff), and
- Law & Economics of Intellectual Property and Innovation (chair: Stefan Bechtold).
The goal of the Munich Summer Institute is to stimulate a rigorous in-depth discussion of a select number of research papers and to strengthen the interdisciplinary international research community in these areas. Researchers in economics, law, management and related fields at all stages of their career (from Ph.D. students to full professors) may attend the Munich Summer Institute as presenters in a plenary or a poster session, as discussants or as attendants. The Munich Summer Institute will feature three keynote lectures, 18 plenary presentations and a daily poster session (including a poster slam). Paper presentations will be grouped by topics, not discipline or method.
The Munich Summer Institute will be held at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities in the heart of Munich. Participation is by invitation only. The organizers will fund travel and hotel expenses for all plenary speakers and hotel expenses for all poster presenters and invited discussants.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Michael Frakes (Duke University)
- Ajia Leiponen (Cornell University)
- Mirjam van Praag (Copenhagen Business School)
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Researchers who would like to present a paper are invited to submit their paper online until January 15, 2017, at http://munich-summer-institute.org. Paper selections will be announced at the beginning of March. The program of the Munich Summer Institute will be available on April 1, 2017. Final papers are due for circulation among conference participants on May 1, 2017. Accepted papers will be made available to conference participants on a protected website. Researchers who would like to attend the Munich Summer Institute without giving a presentation should contact one of the organizers by May 1, 2017.
FURTHER INFORMATION: More information is available at http://munich-summer-institute.org. Any questions concerning the Munich Summer Institute should be directed to Stefan Bechtold (sbechtold@ethz.ch), Jorg Claussen (j.claussen@lmu.de), Dietmar Harhoff (dietmar.harhoff@ip.mpg.de) or Tobias Kretschmer (t.kretschmer@lmu.de).
2. Call For Papers
The Risk Institute 2017 Request for Proposals for Research on Risk Management
The Risk Institute at The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business meets at the intersection of academia and industry and is committed to generating new insights and influencing the adoption of leading risk management practices. As part of this commitment, The Risk Institute sponsors funding for research - area-specific and interdisciplinary seeking to discover and advance risk management concepts that organizations can use to leverage risk management to create value.
TOPICS: The Risk Institute invites proposals from applicants from all disciplines and industry expertise. Research covering all areas of risk management is welcome. Priority will be given to topics included in The Risk Institute's 2016-2017 Risk Series, including political risk, risk resilience and sustainability, reputation risk and culture, cyber risk, enterprise risk management for nonfinancial firms, and risks in mergers and acquisitions.
The deadline for proposals is January 31, 2017. The Risk Institute will review proposals beginning in February 2017 and applicants will be notified of funding decisions by April 30, 2017.
Funding will be up to $10,000 cash or research support per person with a maximum of $30,000 per project.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: To view the official Request for Proposals and info on how to submit your proposal, please visit: http://go.osu.edu/Jan2017RiskRFP
FURTHER INFORMATION: For more information on The Risk Institute and previously funded projects, visit: https://fisher.osu.edu/centers-partnerships/risk-institute
3. Call For Papers
Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Federal Reserve Board and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Conference on "Unconventional Monetary Policy: Lessons Learned"
Thursday & Friday, October 12-13, 2017, Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Federal Reserve Board, and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta will sponsor a conference "Unconventional Monetary Policy: Lessons Learned".The conference will be held in Hong Kong on October 12-13, 2017.
TOPICS: Specific topics include but are not restricted to:
- The effectiveness of unconventional monetary policy in the zero lower bound economy.
- Should monetary policy target an inflation rate above 2% when the economy is at the zero lower bound?
- What is the transmission mechanism of unconventional monetary policy on output, interest rate spreads, and inflation expectations?
- The role of fiscal policy when the nominal interest rate is at the lower bound.
- What are the desirable interactions between monetary and fiscal policies and how to assess the feasibility of such interactions?
- How does unconventional monetary policy affect asset prices and what are the consequences?
- Measuring the unintended consequences of unconventional monetary policy: e.g. effect on bank profitability, insurance companies/pension funds, market liquidity or income/wealth inequality.
- International spillover and spillback effects of unconventional monetary policy.
We invite authors to submit completed papers or extended abstracts. Preferences are for completed papers, and priority will also be given to empirical papers. If you know of a paper that fits the conference theme, please forward this message to the author.
ORGANIZERS: Hongyi Chen (Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research), John Rogers (Federal Reserve Board), and Tao Zha (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta).
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please submit the full paper with an abstract in pdf format to , using the authors' names as the filenames of the papers, and enter "Paper Submission for HKMA-FRB-Atlanta Fed Joint Conference" as the email subject line. The organizers will select the papers based on originality, analytical rigor, and policy relevance.
The deadline for paper submission is March 31, 2017. Only the authors of accepted papers will be informed by May 26, 2017. Economy-class travel and local accommodation for speakers and discussants from academic institutions will be funded by the organizer.
4. Call For Papers
14th Midwest International Economic Development Conference
April 21 - April 22, 2017, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison will host the 14th Midwest International Economic Development Conference on Friday, April 21, and Saturday, April 22, 2017, at the Pyle Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The keynote speaker will be Pascaline Dupas, Associate Professor of Economics at Stanford University.
We invite you, and any other interested faculty and graduate students in your department or elsewhere, to submit a paper to present at the conference. Papers on any topic related to international economic development are welcome. Submissions for an entire session (of 4 papers) are also welcome. Abstracts without papers will not be considered.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Deadline for submissions is January 4, 2017. The submission portal is at (http://aae.wisc.edu/mwiedc). Papers will be reviewed by a committee from the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Questions about submissions, contact mwiedc@aae.wisc.edu
5. Call For Papers
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth Eighth Annual Conference on Internet Commerce and Innovation
Matthew L. Spitzer, Director
Daniel F. Spulber, Research Director
Thursday, June 8, 2017 - Friday, June 9, 2017, Chicago, IL
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Eighth Annual Conference on Internet Commerce and Innovation. The conference will be held at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, IL. The conference will run from approximately 12:00 P.M. on Thursday, June 8, 2017 to 2:45 P.M. on Friday, June 9, 2017. There will be a dinner reception and keynote address on Thursday night.
The conference is organized by Professor Daniel F. Spulber, Northwestern University. The papers for this conference will be selected by a scientific committee that includes Research associates, Justus Baron and Pere Arque-Castells.
The goal of this conference is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern's own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high-quality research relevant to Internet commerce and innovation. The conference will cover academic work on Internet commerce and innovation, and the discussion will examine related public policy issues in antitrust, regulation, and intellectual property.
TOPICS; Topics include:
- E-commerce
- Market design and platform competition
- The Internet, innovation, and intellectual property (IP)
- Antitrust in two-sided markets
- The Sharing Economy
- Software and business method inventions
- R&D and innovation in high-tech
- Entrepreneurship and e-commerce
- Social networks
- Privacy issues in e-commerce
- Data portability
- Cloud computing
- Internet search
- Joint work in economics and computer science on search algorithms
FURTHER INFORMATION: For information on previous conferences please see: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/programs/searlecenter/events/internet
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Papers for the conference should be submitted to the following email address: searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu
Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. Potential attendees who are not submitting a paper should indicate their interest in receiving an invitation by sending a message to searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu
The submitting author should be the one who intends to present the paper here in Chicago. Authors will receive a speaker fee of $1,000 per paper. The speaker fee is intended to cover reasonable transportation expenses. Government employees and non-US residents may instead be reimbursed for travel expenses up to the honorarium amount. Authors are expected to attend and participate in the full duration of the conference. If more than one author attends the conference, the honorarium or travel reimbursement can be divided equally between the attending authors. The Searle Center also will reserve and pay for hotel accommodations for authors and discussants for the nights of Thursday, June 8, 2017 and, if needed Wednesday, June 7, 2017.
REVIEW PROCEDURE AND TIMELINE:
Conference Papers Submission Deadline: Papers for the conference should be submitted to the following email address: searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu by February 1, 2017.
Notification Deadline: Authors will be notified of decisions on or around March 15, 2017.
Please note that papers that are presented at the conference will be permanently hosted on the Searle Center website: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law was established in 2006 to research how government regulation and interpretation of laws and regulations by the courts affect business and economic growth. Information on the Searle Center's activities may be found at: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter
6. Call For Papers
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth Tenth Annual Conference on Innovation Economics
Matthew L. Spitzer, Director
Daniel F. Spulber, Research Director
Thursday, June 22, 2017 - Friday, June 23, 2017, Chicago, IL
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth is issuing a call for original research papers to be presented at the Tenth Annual Conference on Innovation Economics. The conference will be held at the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law in Chicago, IL. The conference will run from approximately 9:00 A.M. on Thursday, June 22, 2017 to 3:00 P.M. on Friday, June 23, 2017.
The USPTO intends to co-sponsor this conference in conjunction with the Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth. The conference is organized by Daniel F. Spulber. The papers for this conference will be selected by a scientific committee that includes Justus Baron and Pere Arque-Castells.
The goal of this conference is to provide a forum where economists and legal scholars can gather together with Northwestern's own distinguished faculty to present and discuss high-quality research relevant to intellectual property (IP) protection, innovation, and entrepreneurship.
For information on previous conferences please see: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/programs/searlecenter/events/innovation
This conference is an important component of the Searle Center's expanded entrepreneurship and innovation focus. Conference participants will explore the connections between IP, innovation, and entrepreneurship through empirical and theoretical economic and legal analysis. This interdisciplinary conference will be composed of presentations by leading researchers in economics and law, and participating authors will have their papers formally discussed by leading thinkers in the field. In addition, the conference will draw audiences of academics in economics, law, and business, as well as legal and business practitioners, government officials, and public policy makers.
TOPICS: Topics of interest include:
- Technology Standards and incentives to innovate
- Standard Setting Organizations
- Technology Standards and economic efficiency
- Entrepreneurship
- Intellectual property (IP): Patents, Trademarks
- Patent Licensing and technology transfers
- Incentives for Invention and R&D
- Incentives for Innovation
- and the market for inventions
- The role of IP in vertical specialization and market entry
- Financing invention and innovation
- Venture capital
- International innovation
- Intellectual Property (IP) rights and public policy
- Antitrust policy, industrial organization, and IP
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Papers for the conference should be submitted to the following email address: searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu
ATTENDANCE: Attendance for this conference is by invitation only. Potential attendees who are not submitting a paper should indicate their interest in receiving an invitation by sending a message to searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu
The submitting author should be the one who intends to present the paper here in Chicago. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the conference. Authors of each accepted paper will receive an allotted speaker fee of $1,500 per paper, regardless of the number of authors. If more than one author attends the conference, the honorarium or travel reimbursement can be divided equally between the attending authors. Please note that due to potential funding sources for this event, the Searle Center reserves the right to structure the payment as either a speaker fee or a travel expense reimbursement up to the agreed upon amount.
The Searle Center will also reserve and pay for hotel accommodations for attending authors and discussants for the nights of Wednesday, June 21, 2017 and Thursday, June 22, 2017. Authors are expected to attend and participate in the full duration of the conference.
REVIEW PROCEDURE AND TIMELINE:
Conference Papers Submission Deadline: Papers for the conference should be submitted to the following email address: searlecenter@law.northwestern.edu by February 8, 2017.
Notification Deadline: Authors will be notified of decisions by March 21, 2017.
Papers prepared for the conference will be permanently hosted on the Searle Center website: http:// www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter
Independent of the conference, the Journal of Economics & Management Strategy (JEMS) continues to publish high-quality work in the area of innovation economics. JEMS welcomes both empirical and theoretical contributions. Submissions to JEMS are subject to the standard peer-review process. To submit a manuscript to JEMS, visit ScholarOne at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jems. To learn more, visit the journal website: http://editjems.org. If you have any questions about JEMS, contact the journal editorial assistant by e-mail: Elterman, Karen kelterman@hbs.edu
The Searle Center on Law, Regulation, and Economic Growth at Northwestern University School of Law was established in 2006 to research how government regulation and interpretation of laws and regulations by the courts affect business and economic growth. Information on the Searle Center's activities may be found at: http://www.law.northwestern.edu/searlecenter
Frontiers of Economics in China
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I. Latest Issue: Volume 11, Issue 3, September 2016
Special Issue in Honor of Gregory Chow: Part II Ben Bernanke
A Biography of Gregory C. Chow - http://journal.hep.com.cn/fec/EN/1673-3444/current.shtml
Shang-Jin Wei, Xiaobo Zhang
The Comparative Saving Motive: Concept, Evidence, and Implications
Saku Aura, Francis K. Cheung, Shawn Ni
Why Doesn't the Hong Kong Government Sell More Public Land?
Xu Li, Xiang Shao, Zhigang Tao
Hollowing out of the Real Economy: Evidence from China's Listed Firms
Tan Li, Larry Qiu, Ying Xue
Understanding China's Foreign Trade Policy: A Literature Review
Jian Chen, Chenghu Ma
Option Pricing Based on Alternative Jump Size Distributions
Hailong Qian
Redundancy of Moment Conditions in Restricted GMM Estimation
Haiwen Zhou, Ruhai Zhou
A Dynamic Model of the Choice of Technology in Economic Development
Hao Wang
Spatial Competition and Lowest Price Commitment
II. SELECTED PAPERS PUBLISHED IN 2015:
- Governance Reforms and Growth: Some Ideas from Economic Theory, Avinash Dixit
- Productivity Shocks and Monetary Policy in a Two-Country Model, Tae-Seok Jang, Eiji Okano
- Hot Money Flows, Cycles in Primary Commodity Prices, and Financial Control in Developing Countries, Ronald McKinnon
- Learning and Efficiency with Search Frictions, Xi Weng
- Public Housing, School Segregation, and Children's Education: Evidence from Hong Kong, Junjian Yi, Kee Lee Chou, Linda Yung, Junsen Zhang
III. JOURNAL PROFILE:
Frontiers of Economics in China (FEC) is double-blind peer-reviewed economics journal edited at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and published by Higher Education Press of China. Issued quarterly and distributed worldwide, the journal is available both online and in hard-copy. FEC welcomes submissions of theoretical and empirical papers from all fields of economics, particularly those with an emphasis on the Chinese economy and other emerging, developing or transition economies.
Indexed in: Academic OneFile, CAB Abstracts, CAB International, Cabell's Directories, EconLit, E-JEL, Emerging Sources Citation Index (Thomson Reuters), Gale, Google, OCLC, Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), SCOPUS, Summon by Serials Solutions.
IV. EDITORSHIP:
Editor: Guoqiang Tian, Texas A&M University; Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
Executive Editor: Zhiqi Chen, Carleton University
Co-editors:
Chunrong Ai, University of Florida
Kevin X.D. Huang, Vanderbilt University
Neng Wang, Columbia University
James Wen, Trinity College, USA
The Editorial Board of FEC is comprised of more than 40 internationally renowned scholars with extensive academic qualifications. A complete list can be found at: http://iar2.shufe.edu.cn/iar/english/fec/284/4782
V. SUBMISSION AND CONTACT INFORMATION:
Online Submission: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/fec
Submission Instructions: http://iar2.shufe.edu.cn/iar/english/fec/284/4795
Contact Information:
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Email: fec@sufe.edu.cn, Tel: +86-21-6590 2681
Address: 111 Wuchuan Rd, Yangpu District, Shanghai 200433, China
Websites (free full-text download):
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EcoMod Modeling School - 2017
EMS Singapore January 16 - 20, 2017 http://ecomod.net/modeling-school/ecomod-modeling-school-singapore-2017-0
- Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS
- Energy and Environmental CGE Modeling with GAMS
EMS - South Korea February 13 - 17, 2017
http://ecomod.net/modeling-school/ecomod-modeling-school-south-korea-2017
cohosted by Jeju Development(JDI) and Jeju National University
- Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS
- Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) Modeling Step-By-Step
- Tax Revenue Modeling Using Econometric and Microsimulation Techniques with EViews and Stata
EMS - London April 10 - 14, 2017
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- Global VAR modeling using the GVAR Toolbox 2.0
- Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) Modeling Step-By-Step
EMS - USA, Washington DC, May 8 - 12, 2017 http://ecomod.net/modeling-school/ecomod-modeling-school-americas-2017
- Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS
- Energy and Environmental CGE Modeling with GAMS
EMS - Prague June 26 - 30, 2017
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- Practical General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS
- Advanced Techniques in General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS
- Energy and Environmental CGE Modeling with GAMS
- Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) Modeling Step-By-Step
- Tax Revenue Modeling Using Econometric and Microsimulation Techniques with EViews and Stata
- Overlapping Generation General Equilibrium Modeling with GAMS
- Macroeconometric Modeling using EViews
- Building and Using Social Accounting Matrices (SAM) and SAM Multiplier Models for Policy Analysis
