A conference on “Exchange Rates and Macroeconomic Policies: Recent Developments” will be held on December 2-3, 2019, at City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. The conference is organized by the Global Research Unit, Department of Economics & Finance, City University of Hong Kong; the Center for Analytical Finance, University of California, Santa Cruz; and the Institute of Empirical Economic Research, Osnabrück University, Germany.

About the Conference

In the globalized economy, countries have to deal with an increasing interlinkage between exchange rate movements and macroeconomic policies. For instance, domestic interest rate policies, targeted to combat inflation, have repercussions via the exchange rate on the current account and capital flows. Parity conditions that need to hold in the short or the longer term are the theoretical conduits through which exchange rates exert their influence on an open economy. The use of exchange rate policies to enhance competitiveness can have unintended side effects; especially, when debts are denominated in foreign currencies. Furthermore, the choice of exchange rate regime may limit the range of instruments available to manage the economy. Under certain circumstances, exchange rate arrangements can trigger speculative flows and constitute a threat to financial stability.

The prolonged recession and low interest rate environment triggered by the 2008 global financial crisis have rekindled discussions of exchange rate determination and the roles of exchange rates as a source of economic instability, or as an effective policy tool. The objective of this conference is to take stock of the latest research on exchange rates and macroeconomic policies 10 years after the crisis, and to provide a forum for academics and practitioners to share the latest research results on topics, which include but are not limited to:

– Advances in exchange rate economics
– Puzzles in international financial markets
– Conventional and unconventional policies
– Macroprudential policies and foreign currency borrowing
– Capital flows and capital flight
– Exchange rate policies/regimes
– Global financial system, global cycles, and global re-balancing

Those interested in participating should send a complete paper or an extended abstract in WORD or PDF format via email to gruhkg@cityu.edu.hk by August 22, 2019. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by September 15, 2019.

Final versions of the accepted papers will be posted on the conference website (http://www.cb.cityu.edu.hk/ef/conference/2019_IEER). Presenters may apply for financial support to cover economy class airfare and local accommodation expenses.

See the conference website for more information:

http://www.cb.cityu.edu.hk/ef/conference/2019_IEER

The submission deadlines for several conferences that feature work in international macroeconomics are coming up:

Con Date       Sub Date                Name                                    Location

5/29 – 6/1       1/31             Int’l Trade & Finance              Livorno, Italy

6/9 – 6/11       1/31             INFINITI                                    Glasgow, Scotland

6/13 – 6/16     4/4               Eur Econ & Fin Society           Genoa, Italy

6/27 – 6/28     2/4               Conference on Int’l Econ      Granada, Spain

7/10 – 7/12     3/20             NBER – Int’l Finance               Cambridge, US

7/18 – 7/20      2/2               Central Bank Res Assoc        New York, US

7th Annual West Coast Workshop in International Finance
November 9, 2018

Call for papers and workshop announcement
Submission Deadline: August 17th, 2018

The 7th annual West Coast Workshop in International Finance will be held at the University of California, Santa Cruz on Friday, November 9th. (Past workshop agendas can be seen here.)

We encourage submissions in all areas of open-economy macroeconomics and international finance. Policy-relevant theoretical work, empirical research, computational work, and historical approaches are all welcome.

Please submit full papers via email to: WCWIF@scu.edu. The deadline for paper submissions is Friday, August 17, 2018.

The WCWIF organizing committee will select the papers to be presented at the conference and will notify presenters the first week in September. Paper presenters will be responsible for their own travel expenses.

The WCWIF 2018 organizing committee includes:

Yu-chin Chen, University of Washington
Grace Weishi Gu, UC Santa Cruz
Chenyue Hu, UC Santa Cruz
Mark Spiegel, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Romain Rancière, USC
Andrew Rose, UC Berkeley
Katheryn Russ, UC Davis
Kenneth Kletzer, UC Santa Cruz (Co-Chair)
Helen Popper, Santa Clara University (Co-Chair)

The workshop is sponsored by the Department of Economics at UC Santa Cruz, by the Department of Economics at Santa Clara University, and by the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.

Please share this call with colleagues who may be interested.

I have just returned from the 4th HenU / INFER Workshop on Applied Macroeconomics in Kaifeng, China, which was organized by Makram El-Shaghi and Zhang Lin. There were many interesting presentations that are listed in the program.

I’m traveling this weekend to the INFINITI conference in Poznań, Poland.

I would be pleased to meet anyone who is also attending.

It is the time to plan for the spring conferences that feature work in international macroeconomics. This year’s venues include:

Date             Location                                               Name

5/25-5/27   Crete, Greece            Annual Conference on Macro Analysis &  International Finance

5/31-6/3     Poznan, Poland          International Trade & Finance Association 27th Int’l Conference

6/8-6/9        Barcelona, Spain        Barcelona GSE Summer Forum: International Capital Flows

6/12-6/13   València, Spain            Infiniti 2017

6/15-6/16   Aarhus, Denmark       13th Danish International Economics Workshop

6/19-6/20   Dublin, Ireland            IM-TCD-ND Workshop: Int’l Macroeconomics and Capital Flows

6/22-6/25   Ljublijana, Slovenia    European Economics & Finance Society Conference

7/5-7/6       Paris, France               34th International Symposium on Money, Banking & Finance

7/10-7/14  Cambridge, U.S.           NBER: International Finance & Macroeconomics

This week  I am at the Financial Development and Economic Stability Conference at Durham University in the United Kingdom. The conference’s website is here:

https://fdes.sciencesconf.org/

I will be away for most of June, visiting Pomepu Fabra University in Barcelona and attending the Barcelona GSE Summer Forum. I will also be presenting a paper at the INFER Annual Conference in Reus. I hope to meet some who follow this blog at these events.

I will pick up blogging in July.

The end of the academic year is here, and many academic conferences are taking place. The ones that may of interest to readers of this blog include:

May 22-25. International Trade & Finance Association Conference. Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.

May 26-28. Annual International Conference on Macroeconomic Analysis and International Finance. University of Crete, Greece.

June 13-14. INFINITI Conference on International Finance. Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.

June 13-14. Barcelona GSE Summer Forum: International Capital Flows.  Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, Spain.

June 16-19. European Economics and Finance Society Conference. Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

June 17. Annual Conference in International Finance. City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.

July 11-15. NBER Summer Institute: International Finance. Cambridge. MA, U.S.

Now, I realize that June is a good month in which to hold a conference. But four in the same week in June?!? Some explicit coordination by the organizers would make attending these events much easier.

This week I am traveling to the West Coast Workshop on International Finance & Open Economy Macroeconomics. It will be held on Friday, Oct. 2, at the campus of UC-Santa Cruz. There is a fabulous line-up of speakers and papers, which you can find here:

http://www.scu.edu/business/economics/wcwif/