Keynote speakers
- Josef Brada – Arizona State University
- Gianni De Fraja – Nottingham University and CEPR
- Gary Jefferson – Brandeis University
- Dominick Salvatore – Fordham University
- Mathias Thoenig – HEC, Université de Lausanne)
Conference objectives and topics
The INFER Annual Conference is the main annual event of the International Network for Economic Research. The INFER Annual Conference provides a great opportunity for members and non-members of INFER alike to exchange ideas and to discuss new economic research. Researchers are invited to submit theoretical and applied papers across all areas of economics.
General Theme
The INFER annual conference is open to contributions from all areas of economic research. Nevertheless, we especially encourage submissions related to the following topics:
- Emerging markets economies and globalization
- Financial and Debt Crisis
- Economic Asymmetries
- Fiscal Policy and Public Finance
- Growth, Technical Progress and Innovation
- Industrial Economics and Microeconomics
- International Trade and Economic Geography
- Labor and Capital Markets
- Macroeconomic Policy
- Monetary and Financial Economics
- Public Economics
- Regional, Urban and Rural Economics
Special sessions
The conference will host the following special sessions:
- Financial regulation, in particular (but not limited to) banking regulation – Cordelius Ilgmann.
- Economic asymmetries – Alberto Bagnai with the support of a/simmetrie
- Asymmetries in the Eurozone – Eckhard Hein with the support of a/simmetrie
- Global trade dynamics – Jan van Hove
- Environmental issues, intellectual property rights, and their interactions with the political decision-making process in China – Alberto Bagnai.
- Spatial economics and environmental policy – Camelia Turcu.
- Evolution of the international monetary system – Gennaro Zezza, with the support of a/simmetrie
The Annual Conference is open to economists, including both young and experienced researchers, post-doctoral students and professionals from business, government and non-governmental institutions. Participants are also encouraged to organize special sessions, under the supervision of the Scientific Committee.
Submission of papers
Only full papers may be submitted for the INFER Annual Conference’s general sessions and special sessions. Papers must be in English and must include a cover page with the following information:
- An abstract of up to 500 words, with JEL classification and no more than 5 keywords
- Authors’ full name, affiliation
- Contact details for corresponding author, such as address, phone and e-mail
Papers for the special sessions should be submitted to the session chairs noted above. Papers for the general sessions should be submitted by the link below electronically, as doc-files or pdf-files.
Paper presenters are expected to discuss one other paper during the conference. The discussant assignments will be made by the conference organizers at a later date. As the conference intends to strengthen the INFER network, participation is welcome even without paper contributions.
Scientific committee
- Alberto Bagnai – Gabriele d’Annunzio University
- Ansgar Belke – University of Duisburg Essen
- Filippo Belloc – Gabriele d’Annunzio University
- Josef Brada – Arizona State University
- Peter Claeys – University of Barcelona
- Ron Davies – University College Dublin
- Massimo Del Gatto – Gabriele d’Annunzio University
- Giovanni Di Bartolomeo – University of Teramo
- David Duffy – University of Ulster
- Elena Dumitrescu – University of Paris X Nanterre
- Makram El-Shagi – University of Halle
- Belton Fleisher – Ohio State University
- Brigitte Granville – Queen Mary University
- Alessandra Guariglia – University of Birmingham
- Eckhard Hein – Berlin School of Economics and Law
- Cordelius Ilgmann – German Federal Ministry of Finance
- Anastasios Malliaris – Loyola University
- Sandra Poncet – University of Paris I and CEPII
- Monica Pop Silaghi – University Babes-Bolyai
- Davide Quaglione – Gabriele d’Annunzio University
- Christian Richter – University of Bedfordshire
- Alessandro Sarra – Gabriele d’Annunzio University
- Dario Sciulli – Gabriele d’Annunzio University
- Edward Shinnick – University College Cork
- Elias Soukiazis – University of Coimbra
- Michael Stierle – European Commission
- Ulrike Stierle-von Schütz – European Commission
- Andreea Stoian – Bucharest University of Economic Studies
- Giuseppe Travaglini – University of Urbino
- Camélia Turcu – University of Orléans
- Edilio Valentini – Gabriele d’Annunzio University
- Jan Van Hove – University of Leuven, HU Brussels
- Paolo Vitale – Gabriele d’Annunzio University
- Gennaro Zezza – University of Cassino and Levy Economics Institute