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announcements by CEPR Researchers of new research, non-CEPR conferences
or workshops, job vacancies etc.
Workshop
Workshop on Markov Switching Time Series Models
25-27 August 2008
Université de la Méditerranée Aix Marseille 2 – Aix-en-Provence
Objective:
Introduce Markov Switching Time Series Models to advanced PhD students and professional
economists. The topics to be covered include Bayesian VARs, Markov Switching VARs and structural
models with time varying parameters. On each of these topics, the morning session will take the form of a
formal presentation of the concepts used in the formulation and estimation of the econometric models.
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Call for Papers:
5TH ECB/CEPR LABOUR MARKET WORKSHOP
"RECENT TRENDS IN EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT"
Frankfurt am Main, Eurotower, 11-12 December 2008
Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2008
The ECB will hold the 5th joint ECB/CEPR labour market workshop in December 2008. On this occasion the workshop focuses on "Recent trends in European employment".
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 5th Eurostat Colloquium on "Modern Tools for Business Cycle Analysis"
will be held in Luxembourg on 29th September - 1st October 2008.
This colloquium is co-organised with the European University Institute (Florence, Italy).
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The CEPR/ESI 12th Annual Conference on
'The Evolving Financial System and the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Policy'
25/26 September 2008, Basel
Co-organised and hosted by the Bank for International Settlements
Call for Papers - Deadline: 1 June 2008
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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 19th Annual Meetings
Society for Economic Dynamics
Cambridge, MA, July 10-12, 2008
The 19th annual meetings of the Society for Economic Dynamics will be held on July 10-12, 2008 in Cambridge, MA. The plenary speakers are Jim Poterba (MIT), Jose Scheinkman (Princeton), and Per Krusell (Princeton). The program co-chairs are George-Marios Angeletos (MIT), Ariel Burstein (UCLA), Mike Golosov (MIT), and Christian Hellwig (UCLA).
The program will be made up from a selection of invited and submitted papers. The Society now welcomes submissions for the Cambridge program. Submissions may be from any area in economics. A program committee will select the papers for the conference. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2008. Further details and instructions on how to submit a paper are available at:
http://www.economicdynamics.org/sed2008.htm
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Emergence of China and India in the Global Economy
Centre for Economic Performance
London School of Economics
4th - 6th July 2008
Papers are invited for a 3-day conference on the emergence of China and India in the
Global Economy, to be held at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London
School of Economics on 4th-6th July 2008. The general themes of the conference are
the causes and consequences of the acceleration of economic development in China
and India in recent decades, including the implications for other developing and
developed countries around the world.
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Peter B. Kenen Visiting Fellowship for 2008 - 2009
Dear Colleagues,
The International Economics Section and the Department of Economics at
Princeton University invite applications for the Peter B. Kenen
Visiting Fellowship for 2008 - 2009.
One or more Fellows will be chosen to spend an academic year in residence
at Princeton as a guest of the Section and the Department.
The Fellow will be given office space and the opportunity to
pursue independent research on any topics in international economics.
The Fellow will receive a stipend as well as a modest fund for research
expenses. More senior fellows may combine our fellowship with other
sources of funding to replace up to the full amount of their academic-year
salaries at their home institutions.
The Fellowship is open to any economist who currently holds a full-time
position in a university or a research organization.
I would appreciate if you would circulate this message to anyone whom you
feel might be interested and a good candidate.
Applicants should send a c.v., a brief (750 word) research statement,
and contact information for two references (no need for letters of
reference; just email addresses) to:
Visiting Fellowship Application
International Economics Section
Department of Economics
Princeton University
Princeton NJ 08544
Applications are due by January 15 , 2008.
For further information, applicants should contact
ies@princeton.edu.
Gene Grossman
Department of Economics
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544
(o) 609-258-4823
(f) 609-258-1374
CALL FOR PAPERS
4th Annual Central Bank Workshop on the Microstructure of Financial Markets
Bank for International Settlements and Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research,
Hong Kong
18th -19th September, 2008
The Bank for International Settlements and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research of the
Hong Kong Monetary Authority are jointly organizing a two-day workshop on the microstructure
of financial markets on September 18th -19th, 2008 in Hong Kong. This initiative aims at
repeating the success of similar events which took place in Oslo (2005), Ottawa (2006) and
Budapest (2007). The workshop will provide an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to
discuss theoretical and empirical issues regarding the microstructure of financial markets and for
researchers studying different financial markets to interact.
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Job Opportunity
The Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (Social Science Research Centre Berlin - WZB), a member of the Leibniz Association, is a publicly funded institute for problem-oriented, basic social science research. Its work is characterised by long-term projects, theory-driven empirical research, multi-disciplinary cooperation, international comparison, and transnational perspectives.
In the Research Area on "Markets and Politics", the position of
Director
of a new Research Unit (Forschungsabteilung) on "Industrial Organization" is to be filled.
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Employment opportunities with the Chief Economist Team at DG Competition
The office of the chief economist at DG Competition is seeking to
appoint a number of professional economists.
More information on this lecture here
Call For Papers
Research Conference:
"Identifying and Resolving Financial Crises"
April 17-18, 2008
Jointly organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and FDIC's Center for Financial Research
The Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland and the FDIC's Center for Financial Research invite submissions for a
conference on the topic of Identifying and Resolving Financial Crises, to be held April 17-18, 2008 in Cleveland.
The organizers are particularly interested in papers related to
- Distinguishing between individual problems and systemic crises.
- Theory and evidence on the resolution of financial firms
- Identifying policies that lead to contagion or correlated risk
- Contingency planning for crises
Papers dealing with other topics concerning financial system stability are also welcome.
More information here
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