Reform of the International Economic Order: Uncertainty and Economic Policy Coordination

The conference will bring together researchers working on the implications of uncertainty and economic policy coordination, preferably relating to the Chinese economy. The program committee cordially invites submissions of both theoretical and empirical work on topics including (but not limited to):

• Regional trade agreements and new rules of international economy.

• Global value chains, intra-product specialization and regional production networks.

• Trade protectionism and global economic governance.

• U.S.-China relations and prospects.

• Normalization of the Covid-19 epidemic and new global economic and financial pattern.

• Financial liberalization and macroeconomic policy coordination.

• Digital currency and reform of the international monetary system.

• Fintech, cryptocurrency and financial structural transformation.

• Global climate changes and global governance system.

We invite authors to submit completed papers or extended abstracts. Completed papers are preferred. Please submit the full paper with an abstract in pdf format to q7clover@gmail.com, using the authors’ full names as the filenames of the papers, and entering "Paper Submission for Uncertainty and Economic Policy Coordination" as the email subject. Please also indicate in your submission whether you would be interested in being a discussant. The organizers will select the papers based on originality, analytical rigor, and policy relevance.

The deadline for paper submission is Oct 15, 2021. （论文提交截止日期为2021年10月15日）Conference paper notifications will be made no later than Oct 31, 2021. The safety risks posed by the COVID-19 pandemic have made it impossible to hold an in-person event for most overseas presenters as expected. Therefore, the virtual meeting will be held for overseas scholars and we expect an in-person meeting for domestic scholars in China.

Special Issue：

Journal of International Money and Finance （《国际货币与金融杂志》）will select papers presented at the conference, and publish a special issue. The general topic of the special issue is "Reform of the International Economic Order: Uncertainty and Economic Policy Coordination". All submitted papers will be considered.

Keynote Speaker:

Franklin Allen: Professor of Finance and Economics and Executive Director of the Brevan Howard Centre at Imperial College London. He was formerly Vice Dean and Director of Wharton Doctoral Programs, Co-Director of the Wharton Financial Institutions Center, Executive Editor of the Review of Financial Studies and Managing Editor of the Review of Finance. He is a past President of the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, the Society for Financial Studies, the Financial Intermediation Research Society and the Financial Management Association, and a Fellow of the Econometric Society.

Shang-Jin Wei: N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy, and Professor of Finance and Economics, Columbia University. He was formerly Chief Economist of Asian Development Bank and Director General of its Economic Research and Regional Cooperation Department, a co-editor of Journal of Development Economics, associate editor of Journal of International Economics. He is a member of NBER and CEPR.

Guest Editors:

Kees Koedijk: Professor of banking and finance in Utrecht University, co-editor of Journal of International Money and Finance. He was formerly Dean and Director of TIAS, Business School of Tilburg University and also Senior Economist at the Research Department of Dutch Central Bank. He is a member of CEPR.

Yuying Jin: Chair Professor, Executive Dean of Institute of International Economic Cooperation, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics.

Haoyuan Ding: Chair Associate Professor, Vice Dean of Institute of International Economic Cooperation, Assistant Dean of College of Business, Shanghai  University of Finance and Economics.

For further queries please contact:

Dr. Tong Qi

Instituteof International Economic Cooperation

College of Business, SUFE

No.777 Guoding Road, Yangpu District, Shanghai, China

E-mail: q7clover@gmail.com

Call for Papers in JIMF Webpage

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-international-money-and-finance/call-for-papers/uncertainty-and-economic-policy-coordination