1. Call For Papers
FESE De la Vega Prize 2017

The Federation of European Securities Exchanges (FESE) is delighted to announce the launch of the Josseph de la Vega Prize 2017. The Prize will award an outstanding research paper related to the securities markets in Europe.

TOPICS: Papers about current developments in European securities markets are particularly welcome. The paper may refer to any of the following topics:
- Saving via Capital Markets: access to capital markets for investors, European private pension plan, financial literacy.
- Financing via Capital Markets: SMEs access, SMEs Growth Markets, Prospectus Regulation, new forms of equity financing.
- Primary Markets for Equities and Bonds: public and private offerings, ongoing disclosure requirements, markets segments.
- Secondary Markets for Equities, Fixed Income and Derivatives: value of exchanges for the real economy, liquidity, transparency, efficiency, risk management, market microstructure, development/size of markets, central clearing, post-trading activity, market abuse.
- Integration, Fairness, Security and Integrity of Markets.
- Benchmarks, Market Indicators and Market Data.
- New Technologies: blockchain, crypto-currencies, robot advisers, etc.
- Impact of Regulation.

The winner(s) will be awarded the prize at the Gala Dinner of the FESE Convention 2017, which will take place on Wednesday, 21st June 2017 in Paris in the presence of high-level officials and industry representatives from around the world. In addition, the winner(s) will be invited to attend the FESE Convention 2017 on Thursday, 22nd June in Paris.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS/FURTHER INFORMATION: The deadline for the submission of papers is Sunday, 26th March 2017, before midnight (CET). The full conditions of participation in the Josseph de la Vega Prize 2017 are available here: http://www.fese.eu/images/Conditions_of_participation_in_the_Josseph_de_la_Vega_Prize_2017.pdf

Further information about the Prize and previous winners are available here: http://www.fese.eu/de-la-vega-prize/previous-winners

2. Call For Papers
2017 Biennial IADI Research Conference: Designing an Optimal Deposit Insurance System in the wake of Financial Crisis - Theory and Practice

1-2 June 2017, Basel, Switzerland

The International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI) invites research papers for its Biennial Research Conference to be held at the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland on 1-2 June 2017.

Deposit insurance systems around the world faced a variety of challenges during the recent financial crisis and played a critical role in maintaining financial stability. IADI established its Core Principles for Effective Deposit Insurance Systems, which emphasize the importance of prompt payouts, clear funding arrangements and more effective contingency planning and crisis management, among other critical elements, to ensure that deposit insurance systems are credible. Although important progress has been made in implementing the framework laid out in the Core Principles, there are several issues in designing an optimal deposit insurance system that require further research. The IADI research conference provides a forum for researchers and deposit insurance and bank resolution practitioners to advance our knowledge about a wide range of issues facing deposit insurers. Thus, the format of the conference will be a blend of research paper presentations with discussants and panels of practitioner experts.

TOPICS: For the research paper sessions, the Program Committee invites theoretical and empirical papers of relevance to deposit insurers. Topics of special interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Optimal level (i.e. coverage) of deposit insurance
2. Optimal or fair pricing (for charging fees/premiums) of deposit insurance
3. Optimal funding structure for deposit insurers
4. Risk taking by banks and its impact on deposit insurance
5. Estimating systemic risk for the design of the financial safety net
6. Assessment of liquidity needs for deposit insurance systems
7. Issues in the design of harmonized deposit insurance systems (e.g. Europe)

In addition to the above-mentioned indicative topic, the organisers may consider research work in the area of bank supervision and resolution frameworks and issues concerning financial stability. The priority will, however, be given to the topics directly relating to deposit insurance.

CONFERENCE DETAILS: The conference will be spread over one and half days and will include presentations by researchers and presentations by the practitioners. Each research paper will be discussed by discussants. Ample time will be provided for audience participation and informal discussions among conference participants. Research papers and panel presentations will be posted on the IADI public web site.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Expenses for travel and lodging will be reimbursed for researchers whose papers are selected for presentation at the conference. Paper submissions must be received by 24 February 2017. Authors will be notified regarding the status of their papers by 10th March 2017. Please submit papers by email as "pdf" files to: David.Walker@iadi.org and Kumudini.Hajra@iadi.org Please name the file: "YourLastName.iadi.pdf."

FURTHER INFORMATION: For additional information, please contact the IADI Secretary General, Mr. David Walker at David.Walker@iadi.org or +41 61 280 9950 or IADI Senior Policy and Research Advisor, Ms. Kumudini Hajra at Kumudini.Hajra@iadi.org or +41 61 280 9930.

3. Call For Papers
International Commodities Symposium: "New Directions in Commodities Research"

Date of Symposium: August 10-11, 2017

Location: J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities, University of Colorado Denver, 1475 Lawrence Street, Denver, CO 80202, USA

ORGANIZERS:
Ajeyo Banerjee, Director, J.P. Morgan, Center for Commodities, Denver, CO, USA
Graham Davis, Professor of Mineral Economics, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA
Coordinator: Matthew Fleming, Program Manager, J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities, Matthew.Fleming@ucdenver.edu

DEADLINE FOR PAPER SUBMISSION: February 15, 2017 (Abstracts or extended abstracts not accepted)
Acceptances Notified by: March 15, 2017

Sponsored by the CME Group Foundation
Sponsored by the Payne Institute for Earth Resources

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
1. Dr. Lutz Kilian, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan
2. Dr. Alex King, Director, U.S. Department of Energy, Critical Materials Institute

TECHNICAL COMMITTEE: (members of the Research Council, J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities)
Graham Davis, Colorado School of Mines, Golden (Chair of Technical Committee)
Ambron, Sueann, Senior Advisor, J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities
Anderson, Thorvin, Former Executive Director, J.P. Morgan Global Commodities Grp
Arak, Marcelle, CoBank Professor, J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities
Brady, Tom, Chief Economist, Newmont Mining Corp
Carter, Colin, Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Davis
DeVore, Nancy, Principal, DHF Team, LLC
Fenton, Colin, Managing Partner & Head of Research, Blacklight Research LLC
Gray, Robert, Chief Commodities Strategist, Resource Capital Funds
Greer, Bob, Scholar in Residence, J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities
Hamilton, James, Professor of Economics, University of California, San Diego
Hammond, Dave, Principal, Hammond International Group
Houlton, Geoff, Director of Commodity Fundamentals, Anadarko Petroleum Corp
Irwin, Scott, Professor of Ag & Cons Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Kaminski, Vince, Professor, Practice of Energy Mgmt, Rice University, Houston
Kilian, Lutz, Professor of Economics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Kowalski, Daniel, Director of Industry Research, CoBank, Knowledge Exchange Division
Lee, Benjamin, Research Scientist, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
McCallum, Peter, Director, Global Agribusiness, Bunge Limited
Most, Matt, Government Relations and Sustainability, Encana Oil & Gas (USA) Inc
Nomikos, Nikos, Professor of Shipping Risk Mgmt, Cass Business School, London
Pearson, Don, Spaces & Places Leader, Ardent Mills
Putnam, Bluford, Chief Economist, CME Group
Reinhardt, Forest, John D. Black Prof. of Business Admin, Harvard Business School
Robe, Michel, Associate Professor of Finance, American University, Washington D.C.
Ronn, Ehud, Professor of Finance, University of Texas, Austin
Rouwenhorst, Geert, Haas Professor of Corporate Finance, Yale School of Mgmt
Schneider, Bryce, Director of Trading and Origination, Xcel Energy
Slade, Margaret, Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
Till, Hilary, Solich Scholar, J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities
Titus, Lance, Managing Director, Guzman Energy
Vigfusson, Robert, Section Chief (Energy), Federal Reserve Board, Washington D.C.
Wright, Brian, Professor of Agricultural Economics, University of California, Berkeley

SYMPOSIUM DETAIL: "New Directions in Commodities Research" is an international commodities symposium being organized at the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities, University of Colorado Denver, CO, USA, on August 10-11, 2017. The objective is to bring together global thought leaders and prominent stakeholders in commodities to discuss their critical thinking and new research related to commodities. While rigor and quality will be ensured in the presentations, the focus will be on real-world relevance of research, oriented to the immediate and near-term future. The sessions will be limited to outstanding research, and comprise both solicited and competitively selected papers. The sessions and papers will be from both academic and practitioner communities. Submitted papers will be selected by the Technical Committee listed above, which is the Research Council of the J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities.

TOPICS: We invite submissions of scholarly work from all areas of commodities. We encourage industry participants to submit papers that provide current industry perspectives and challenges that could provide interesting research questions for academics. The following is an illustrative list of interest areas, and not exhaustive:
- Structure and regulation of exchanges and trading
- Behavioral and financial Incentives in commodities businesses
- Innovation/technology
- China/India
- Risk management
- Emissions/environment
- Transport/supply chains
- Shipping and ocean-going freight
- Commodities trade and economic growth
- Price fluctuations in commodity and financial markets
- Renewables
- Water as a commodity
- Big data analytics for commodities

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: To submit a paper, please go to http://www.ucdenver.edu/academics/colleges/business/industry-programs/commodities/Pages/International-commodities-symposium.aspx

4. Call For Papers
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University - Program on Economics & Privacy - Second Annual Digital Information Policy Scholars Conference

April 28, 2017, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia

The Program on Economics & Privacy (PEP) at Antonin Scalia Law School, will host a scholars conference on the economics of digital information policy on April 28, 2017. The conference will be open to the public.

The mission of PEP is to promote the sound application of economic analysis to issues surrounding the digital information economy through original research, policy outreach, and education. The annual Digital Information Policy Scholars Conference is intended to further this goal by providing a forum to present original research on this important area of the US economy.

TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Consumer valuation of privacy
- The impact of privacy & data security regulation on consumers and firms
- Data security in the payment industry
- Liability issues surrounding the Internet of Things
- The use of big data for consumers scoring
- Big data and price discrimination
- Targeted advertising
- Ad blocking
- The intersection of privacy and competition policy
- Information, privacy, and education policy
- Consumer responses to disclosures
- Privacy and data security issues surrounding biometrics

Selected authors will receive a $250 honorarium and will be provided lodging for the night of April 27, 2017. There will be a dinner for participants on April 27 as well. Selected authors will be responsible for submitting a final version of their paper by April 14, 2017. In addition to presenting their paper, selected authors will be expected to serve as a discussant for one paper at the conference.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please send your paper or abstract by February 6, 2017, to Jeff T. Smith, Coordinator of PEP, at jsmithq@gmu.edu. Preference will be given to completed papers.

The selection committee includes Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon), Jane Bambauer (University of Arizona), James E. Rogers College of Law), Michael Baye (Indiana University, Kelley School of Business), James Cooper (George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School), Bruce Kobayashi (George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School), Andrew Stivers (Federal Trade Commission), Catherine Tucker (MIT, Sloan School of Management), and Liad Wagman (Illinois Institute of Technology). Selections will be made by February 24, 2017.

Call For Papers for the 2017 Award
Klaus Liebscher Award

Award offered to young economists from EU Member States and EU candidate countries for outstanding scientific papers dedicated to Economic and Monetary Union and European integration issues.

AWARD DETAILS: The Klaus Liebscher Award was established in 2005 on the occasion of the 65th birthday of former OeNB Governor Klaus Liebscher, in recognition of his commitment to Austria's participation in Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) and to European integration in general.

This award is offered for two outstanding (policy-oriented) scientific papers on Economic and Monetary Union and European integration issues written by young economists (born after February 12, 1982) from EU Member States or EU candidate countries. The winners of the award, who are announced at the OeNB's annual Economics Conference, receive EUR 10,000 each. They are expected to present their main findings at this conference.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: To qualify, papers must be written in English or German and must be submitted to the Oesterreichische Nationalbank by February 12, 2017, at the latest. The chair of the panel of reviewers is Ewald Nowotny, Governor of the OeNB. If you wish to make a submission, please e-mail your paper to the Head of Economic Studies of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank, Martin Summer, cc: Beate Hofbauer, citing the reference "Klaus Liebscher Award 2015" in the subject line.

FURTHER INFORMATION: For more details, please check the Conditions for Participation on the award homepage:https://www.oenb.at/en/About-Us/Research-Promotion/Grants/Klaus-Liebscher-Award.html

 
Call For Papers
Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University - Program on Economics & Privacy - Second Annual Digital Information Policy Scholars Conference

April 28, 2017, Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia

The Program on Economics & Privacy (PEP) at Antonin Scalia Law School, will host a scholars conference on the economics of digital information policy on April 28, 2017. The conference will be open to the public.

The mission of PEP is to promote the sound application of economic analysis to issues surrounding the digital information economy through original research, policy outreach, and education. The annual Digital Information Policy Scholars Conference is intended to further this goal by providing a forum to present original research on this important area of the US economy.

TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Consumer valuation of privacy
- The impact of privacy & data security regulation on consumers and firms
- Data security in the payment industry
- Liability issues surrounding the Internet of Things
- The use of big data for consumers scoring
- Big data and price discrimination
- Targeted advertising
- Ad blocking
- The intersection of privacy and competition policy
- Information, privacy, and education policy
- Consumer responses to disclosures
- Privacy and data security issues surrounding biometrics

Selected authors will receive a $250 honorarium and will be provided lodging for the night of April 27, 2017. There will be a dinner for participants on April 27 as well. Selected authors will be responsible for submitting a final version of their paper by April 14, 2017. In addition to presenting their paper, selected authors will be expected to serve as a discussant for one paper at the conference.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please send your paper or abstract by February 6, 2017, to Jeff T. Smith, Coordinator of PEP, at jsmithq@gmu.edu. Preference will be given to completed papers.

The selection committee includes Alessandro Acquisti (Carnegie Mellon), Jane Bambauer (University of Arizona), James E. Rogers College of Law), Michael Baye (Indiana University, Kelley School of Business), James Cooper (George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School), Bruce Kobayashi (George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School), Andrew Stivers (Federal Trade Commission), Catherine Tucker (MIT, Sloan School of Management), and Liad Wagman (Illinois Institute of Technology). Selections will be made by February 24, 2017.

 

Call For Papers
Conference on Agriculture and Development

March 31-April 1, 2017, New Haven, Connecticut

The Economic Growth Center, the Macmillan Center and the School of Management at Yale University are sponsoring a conference on Agriculture and Development on Fri-Sat, March 31-April 1, 2017 on the Yale campus in New Haven.

TOPICS: We plan to host both internal and external speakers to present papers on Agricultural Productivity and Development, Structural Transformation, and Rural-Urban Spatial and Sectoral Linkages, carrying on Yale's long tradition of research in these areas.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: If you would like to submit a paper to the conference, please email it to noel.sardalla@yale.edu with the subject header "Agri-Devo Conference" by January 15, 2017 midnight ET. There is travel funding available for presenters.

FURTHER INFORMATION: The program committee of Professors Dean Karlan, Mushfiq Mobarak, Mark Rosenzweig and Chris Udry aim to finalize the program by January 31, 2017.

The Israeli Law and Economics Association
Call For Papers for the 2017 Annual Meeting

March 12-13, 2017, Israel

The Israeli Law and Economics Association (ILEA) welcomes submissions of papers on any topic regarding the Economic Analysis of Law for its 14th annual conference to be held in Israel on March 12-13, 2017,

The keynote speaker will be Prof Kathryn Spier from Harvard Law School.

ILEA invites contributions in all aspects related to Law and Economics, both theoretical and empirical.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Submissions must be original and not previously published. Please note that this is the first time that ILEA opens its doors to international scholars. Therefore, the conference will be conducted in English only if a sufficient number of papers from outside of Israel are accepted by our reviewers.

Please email your draft to Israeli.lea@gmail.com

IMPORTANT DATES:
- Paper submission deadline: December 5, 2016
- Communication of acceptance: January 15, 2017
- Registration before: February 1, 2017
- Conference: March 12-13, 2017

Professor Ronen Avraham
(Conference Organizer) 

Call For Papers - Deadline Approaching
The Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research Conference on Financial Decisions and Asset Markets

March 17, 2017, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: The Rodney L. White Center for Financial Research invites academics to present their current research on topics related to empirical asset pricing, investment management, and household portfolio choice. The conference participants will include academicians and practitioners with expertise in this area. The majority of the papers will include empirical work. The conference format will include the presentation of four papers with two discussants for each paper. Attendance is by invitation only. Presenters at recent R. L. White conferences have included John Campbell, Eugene Fama, Kenneth French, David Hsieh, Pete Kyle, Andrew Lo, Gregor Matvos, Chester Spatt, Laura Starks, and Lu Zhang. Industry participants have included John Ameriks, Cliff Asness, John Bogle, Charley Ellis, Bob Litterman, Gus Sauter, Stephen Utkus, and Mark Zandi.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: The organizing committee consists of Jules van Binsbergen and Nikolai Roussanov from the Finance Department of the Wharton School.

CONFERENCE LOCATION:
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

PROVISIONS FOR THE PARTICIPANTS:
The R. L. White Center will provide for travel expenses and hotel accommodations for academics and practitioners who are presenting or discussing papers.

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Those interested in presenting a paper are invited to upload a copy of their paper, in PDF format, by clicking on the following link: http://universityofpennsylvania-qhiot.formstack.com/forms/paper_submission_march_2017_rodney_white_center_conference_copy_copy_copy. The deadline for submissions is December 5, 2016. Contact: Elaine M. Thomas, Conference Administrator, Email: emthomas@wharton.upenn.edu, Tel: 215-898-7616, Fax: 215-573-8084.

Call For Nominations
2017 Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research

Nomination Deadline: January 17, 2017

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is pleased to announce that the nomination period is now open for the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship in Entrepreneurship Research (KJFF). The Kauffman Foundation will award up to seven Junior Faculty Fellowship grants to junior faculty members in the United States whose research has the potential to make significant contributions to the body of literature in entrepreneurship. Each Fellow's university will receive a grant of $35,000 over two years to support the research activities of the Fellow.

NOMINATION DETAILS: Nominations will be accepted online from now until 5:00 p.m. Central Time on Tuesday, January 17, 2017. Nominees must be tenured or tenure-track junior faculty members at accredited U.S. institutions of higher education who received a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree between January 1, 2012 and December 31, 2015. Nominees will then have until 5:00 p.m. Central Time on Monday, March 13, 2017 to complete their online applications for consideration for the fellowship.

SUBMISSIONS/FURTHER INFORMATION: To see the complete Call for Nominations, including submission guidelines, please visit http://www.kauffman.org/kjff. Please direct all questions to kjff@kauffman.org

Making connections and innovative ideas accessible is the key strategy of Research and Development Network (RDN). The meeting held on 25^th November 2016 between Resource Mobilization and Management Centre (ROMME) and RDN at RDN office - C&G Plaza- Mikocheni, Dar es Salaam initiated strong linkage between the two organizations. The discussion was based on linkage between ROMME and RDN.

Mr. Heri Marco - Chief Research and Innovation Coordinator for RDN   discussed about the capacity of RDN which is established to build radically thinking connections between Research, innovation and real-world experience, making innovative ideas accessible and usable. The company engages network of researchers, innovators, practitioners, policymakers, investors, entrepreneurs and all professionals / experts to rethink how research and innovation can be delivered to provide solutions and increase productivity and prosperity. RDN’s overall objective is to be a think tank platform for research and innovation in Tanzania, Africa and Worldwide. Mr. Heri Marco further introduced four major services offered by RDN which includes; Collaborative Innovative Consultancy, Research Consultancy, Capacity Development training programs and Online service (www.rdnplatform.com).

According to Mr. Agape Ishabakaki- Researcher from RDN, Online Service(www.rdnplatform.com) is well positioned as an engine for other RDN services and partners. Its mission is to connect experts/professionals, investors, entrepreneurs and enterprises to make innovative ideas accessible and usable. RDN believes that great success can be achieved through proper connections.

Mr. Ruta G. Mutakyahwa- CEO of ROMME, introduced the Organization and its activities. ROMME is established as a private researching, consulting and training firm based in Dar es Salaam. It is a nonprofit-oriented organization. It is intended to provide expert and technical services to Non Profit Organizations and other public and private institutions. ROMME Centre focuses on capacity building and skills transfer in the areas of mobilization and management of resources.

Mr. Marco explained that, by using RDN Platform (www.rdnlatform.com) ROMME can leverage its expertise and reach more people. He further explained that according to the World Internet Statistics - Miniwatts Marketing June, 2016  shows that 50% of the world population are using internet with average growth rate of 905.6% from 2000-2016. In the context of Africa, the continent is one of the fastest growing regions in terms of internet usage with average growth of 7, 448.8% from 2000 - 2016. It counts for 9.4% of the total population of internet users with 28.7% penetration rate. Therefore, with the high pace of growth, RDN Platform positions itself as an accelerator and connector of internet usage in Tanzania, East Africa, Africa at large and Worldwide. By using RDN platform, ROMME has a great chance to increase its productivity, since it will be easy to establish connections and work with different experts/ professionals/organizations/investors/experts.

In addition, based on Mr. Mutakyahwa professional expertise, Mr. Agape of RDN explained that RDN will increase the level of reach of that expertise to ensure it reaches more people and help the society as a whole.  He further explained that Mr. Mutakyahwa's long experience since 1984 has played a significant role in helping organizations, CSOs and the Private Sector on issues related to capacity building and skills transfer in the areas of mobilization and management of resources.

To expedite their expertise, the two organizations agreed to partner on different programs in the future.

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:
Frontiers of Economics in China (FEC)
Institute for Advanced Research, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
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

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