The RIDGE December Forum aims to favor the spread of high quality research in eco-nomics by bringing together prestigious researchers working on the frontier of knowledge to local and regional researchers and policymakers.

The invited speakers for WS2019 are V.V. Chari (University of Minnesota), Edward Glaeser (Harvard University), Ran Spiegler (University College London and Tel Aviv University) and Petra Todd (University of Pennsylvania). Each invited speaker will deliver a set of lectures. The School will also...

We are looking for papers focusing on issues related to financial stability, financial regulation and supervision, systemic risk, banking, macro-prudential policies and other related topics.

We are looking for papers focusingon issues related to capital flows, monetary and macroprudentialpolicies, exchange rates, international reserve accumulation, sovereign debt, and international spillovers.Papers in other topics of international macroeconomics and macroeconomics are also welcome.

RIDGE invites papers for this economic history workshop on all subjects of economic history provided they are particularly concerned with developing regions. The workshop is organized together with the 7th Economic History Congress, organized by the Uruguayan Economic History Association...

Topics: - The application of artificial intelligence, machine learning and quantum computing to payment systems; - The impact of FinTech on payment systems; - Modernization of payments and payments migration; - Technological innovations in retail and wholesale payments; - Management of clearing...

We accept contributions relevant for understanding the most important environ-mental policy challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). These include studies of specific LAC countries, as well as comparative institutional analyses. Papers addressing issues from other regions deemed...

Authors are invited to submit theoretical and empirical papers. Papers will be evaluated and selected by the committee members in their specific area and association.

The event aims at providing a forum for central bankers and academic researchers to discuss the arguments for and against the issuance of CBDC and under what conditions, if any, governments should issue their own digital currencies. Topics: Motivations for issuing CBDC; Conditions under which to...

Topics: - Monetary, fiscal and macro prudential policies in open economies. - Trade and financial links between economies. - Cross-border spillovers and policy coordination. - The neutral rate of interest in open economies. - Exchange rate determination. - Relevance of Dominant, Produce and...