We seek both empirical and theoretical policy-relevant papers. Areas of interest include but are not limited to: - Interactions between commodity prices and the macroeconomy - Macroeconomic effects of shocks to the terms-of-trade - Business-cycle spillovers and international co-movement -...

Meeting program: International Macroeconomics and Finance (IMF), Monetary Economics and Fluctuations (MEF) and Macroeconomics and Growth (MG). The organisers welcome paper proposals to be submitted for this conference in any area of macroeconomics and related fields, or to express your interest...

The organizers are especially interested in contributions discussing challenges brought forward by emerging issues in macro and finance after the financial crisis and their implications for policymakers and macro modelers.

Topics : - Extracting signals from exchange rate movements to inform monetary policy; - Quantifying exchange rate risk premia and their driving factors; - The impact of exchange rate interventions on inflation expectations and/or inflation pass-through; - The impact of carry trade activity on...