Research Network Macroeconomics and
Macroeconomic Policies
Macroeconomic Policy Institute
Hans-Boeckler-Foundation
CONTENTS
A. CALL FOR PAPERS: FMM CONFERENCE, BERLIN, 29-30 OCTOBER 2010
B. CALL FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR HETERODOX ECONOMICS, BORDEAUX, 7-10 JULY 2010
C. CALL FOR PAPERS: ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE RESEARCH GROUP, LONDON, 4 JUNE 2010
D. CALL FOR PAPERS: GLOBAL LABOUR UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE, BERLIN, 14-16 SEPTEMBER 2010
E. CALL FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCE DEVELOPMENTS IN ECONOMIC THEORY AND POLICY, BILBAO, 1-2 JULY 2010
F. NETWORK RESEARCH ON MONEY AND FINANCE (RMF)
G. MASTER PROGRAMMES, BERLIN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND LAW
H. RESEARCH (DOCTORATE) STUDENT POSITIONS AT MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
I. NEW PUBLICATIONS
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A. CALL FOR PAPERS: FMM CONFERENCE, BERLIN, 29-30 OCTOBER 2010
The Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) organises its 14th conference on
‘Stabilising an unequal economy?’
Public debt, financial regulation, and income distribution
29 – 30 October 2010, Berlin
Minsky’s question of how to stabilise an unstable economy is obviously of renewed importance today. But are the present policies merely stabilising an unsustainable accumulation regime based on income polarisation and the dominance of financial markets? What are the economic and political implications of rising public debt? How can financial regulation contribute to stability as well as equity?
The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged:
· Financial instability and financial regulation
· The future role of fiscal policy and the economic and social implications of rising public debt
· Income distribution and the causes of the crisis
· Distributional effects of the stabilisation policies
· Jobless recovery and alternatives for full employment
· Changes in the accumulation regime: return to business-as-usual? What are the alternatives?
For the open part of the conference the submission of papers on the general subject of the Research Network is encouraged as well. We also ask for the submission of papers for graduate student sessions on both the specific topic of this conference and the general subject of the Research Network. We intend to organise an introductory workshop on Keynesian economics aimed at graduate students on 28 October.
Conference language is English. Selected papers will be published after the conference.
The deadline for paper proposals is 25 June 2010. Please send an abstract (one page) to fmm@boeckler.de. Decisions will be made by mid-August. Accepted papers should be sent in by 15 October to be posted on the conference web page.
Organising Committee of the conference:
Torsten Niechoj, Özlem Onaran, Engelbert Stockhammer, Achim Truger and Till van Treeck (Till-van-Treeck@boeckler.de)
Coordinating Committee of the Research Network:
Sebastian Dullien (FHTW Berlin), Trevor Evans (Berlin School of Economics), Jochen Hartwig (KOF/ETH Zürich), Eckhard Hein (Berlin School of Economics), Hansjörg Herr (Berlin School of Economics), Camille Logeay (IMK, Düsseldorf), Özlem Onaran (Middlesex University) Torsten Niechoj (IMK, Düsseldorf), Jan Priewe (FHTW Berlin), Engelbert Stockhammer (Kingston University), Claus Thomasberger (FHTW Berlin), Achim Truger (IMK, Düsseldorf) and Till van Treeck (IMK, Düsseldorf).
More on the Research Network: www.network-macroeconomics.org
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B. CALL FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR HETERODOX ECONOMICS, BORDEAUX, 7-10 JULY 2010
12th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics
The Economy of Tomorrow
Call for papers
7-10 July, 2010
Hosted by the Research Unit in Theoretical and Applied Economics –
GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
Université de Bordeaux, France
The Twelfth Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics (AHE) will be held at the
University of Bordeaux – France – from Wednesday 7th to Saturday 10th July 2010. This year’s
Conference theme is The Economy of Tomorrow.
Long run processes have exacerbated the contradictions of the world economic system leading to a crisis in all spheres including social, political, financial and environmental. The economic crisis that opened in 2008 increases our awareness that economies and societies must change radically in all these spheres in the 21st Century, though views of the changes required, and their depth, will differ. This conference will provide a forum for discussion on current and future changes needed in
developed and developing economies in all these spheres.
The conference invites submissions on or before 7th March 2010 which either accord with the conference title; or which otherwise deal with topics of ongoing interest in heterodox economics.
Building on successful recent innovation, we invite proposals for themes: connected sets of sessions providing for dialogue around a single topic. Papers selected for inclusion in a theme will be peer reviewed by the theme organisers. A theme proposal should provide
Details of themes that the AHE has approved, and contact details of theme organisers, will be posted
on the AHE website www.hetecon.net and regularly updated. The closing date for theme submissions will be 7th March, the same as that for papers.
Themes
Please send a short title for the theme as well as a short description of the papers that are requested and the name of panel organisers or organiser. Please send these by email only to the local organiser Ali Douai (ahe2010@u-bordeaux4.fr), and the AHE coordinator, Alan Freeman afreeman@iwgvt.org).
Proposals for single papers
This year, conference submissions will be automated. Please visit the site www.hetecon.net and follow the instructions there. As part of the procedure, you will be able to indicate whether you are submitting your paper to a theme or as a non-themed paper.
To see details of previous conferences, to keep up to date with the 2010 conference and other AHE activities, and to keep yourself informed of AHE activities subscribe to the AHE-ANNOUNCE mailing list by visiting www.jiscmail.ac.uk/ahe-announce.
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C. CALL FOR PAPERS: ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE RESEARCH GROUP, LONDON, 4 JUNE 2010
*CALL FOR PAPERS (by 15 March 2010)
Economic Governance and the Government-Market Interface: An International Conference
Economic Governance Research Group, University of Greenwich, London ecg47@gre.ac.uk
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Economic governance institutions are defined as rules, norms, regulations, legislation, and formal and informal ‘ways of doing things’, etc. that affect the cost/incentive structures faced by public and private economic agents. In this conference, we aim to bring together researchers who examine the economic implications of the economic governance institutions that regulate the interaction between governments and markets.
We aim to contribute to the debate by: (i) examining the extent to which economic policies and/or business decisions may be endogenous choices shaped by existing economic governance institutions; (ii) discussing the extent to which micro- or macro-economic outcomes may be affected by existing institutions; and (iii) exploring the scope for or barriers to institutional change as an avenue for resolving collective action problems that may be conducive to sub-optimal policy choices and/or economic outcomes.
Stated differently, we aim to insert economic governance institutions as an additional explanatory variable into our economic analysis of fundamental problems such as credible commitments, contracting, moral hazard, conflict resolution, collusion, rent seeking, capture, power and/or information asymmetries, etc.
We would like to invite paper proposals in the following areas. 1. Economic governance and macroeconomic policy 2. Economic governance, risk and regulation 3. Economic governance and public-private contracting 4. Economic governance and international public goods
Proposals should include: Paper title; 300-word abstract; 4-5 Key Words; Name and contact details of author
Deadline for proposal submission : 15 March 2010
Deadline for selection feedback : 22 March 2010
Conference date : 4 June 2010
Conference organisers aim to publish the conference papers as a journal special issue or as an edited book in 2011/12. You will be reimbursed for economy-class return tickets and two-night accommodation in historic Greenwich Village, London. For proposal submission and all correspondence, please contact: ecg47@gre.ac.uk
We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing you at the conference.
Mehmet Ugur
Jean Monnet Reader in Political Economy
University of Greenwich Business School
ecg47@gre.ac.uk
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D. CALL FOR PAPERS: GLOBAL LABOUR UNIVERSITY CONFERENCE, BERLIN, 14-16 SEPTEMBER 2010
Call for Papers: Labour and the global crisis. Sharing the burden (!) shaping the future (?)
Analysis, Short-Term Stabilisation and Long-Term Options
VI. Global Labour University Conference, Berlin, 14-16 September 2010
at the Berlins School of Economics and Law
By 2008 the financial crisis that broke out in the U.S. in 2007 had developed into a full-scale global, systemic financial crisis which ignited a deep crisis in the real economy around the world. Industrialised countries like the USA and the members of the European Union as well as developing countries around the world have all been affected by the crisis. Countries which had deregulated their financial markets to a great extent – like the USA –, countries dependent on exports – like Germany – and economies with high current account deficits and high foreign debt – like the Baltic States –suffered the most. World wide fiscal stimulus packages together with expansionary monetary policy and bailouts of financial institutions were able to limit the rapid contraction of production in most of countries and to stabilise the situation.
However, there seems to be no source which could re-establish the (in many cases already low) growth rates which existed before the crisis. A scenario of long-term stagnating GDP growth in developed countries and insufficient growth in developing countries appears very likely. At all events, more and more countries are turning to severe austerity programs with wage, social security and public service cuts to pay for the crisis. After looting the state for the sake of the financial system some countries are now dismantling the welfare state as we know it.
The following topics will be discussed at the conference.
1. Analyses of the crisis and short-term options
2. Employment Developments and Labour Market Regulations after the Crisis
3. Changes in the global economy and power structures and global governance reforms
4. The financial system, distribution and growth
5. Social safety nets and the public sector
6. Financial systems, corporate governance and multinational companies
7. Looking beyond the horizon – are there fundamental options?
If you would like to offer a paper in one of these areas, please send a short, half-page abstract by 15 April 2010 to: gluconf@global-labour-university.org
More information:
http://www.global-labour-university.org/fileadmin/GLU_conference_2010/GLU_Conference_Call_for_Paper.pdf
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E. CALL FOR PAPERS: CONFERENCE DEVELOPMENTS IN ECONOMIC THEORY AND POLICY, BILBAO, 1-2 JULY 2010
The Department of Applied Economics V of the University of the Basque Country and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, of the University of Cambridge are organizing the 7th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy. The Conference will be held in Bilbao (Spain), in July 1-2, 2010.
Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, there will be Plenary Sessions with Invited Speakers about the following topics:
– Land and Agricultural Environment
– Financialisation and the Transformation of Financial Systems
– Festschrift for Geoff Harcourt: The Political Economy of an Australian Patriot and a Cambridge Economist
Invited Speakers include: Luigi Pasinetti (Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore); Stephanie Blankenburg (SOAS, University of London); Philip Arestis (University of Cambridge and University of the Basque Country) and Malcolm Sawyer; Geoff Harcourt (University of Cambridge), Ian Hodge (University of Cambridge); Unai Pascual (University of Cambridge); Jose Albiac (University of Zaragoza, CITA-DGA); Juan Ramón Murua, Inma Astorkiza and Begoña Eguía (University of the Basque Country); Isabel Bardají (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid); Josep M. Jordan (Universidad de Valencia) and J.M. Garcia Alvarez Coque (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia); Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS, University of London); Paulo Dos Santos (SOAS, University of London); Sherif Elkholy; Juan Pablo Painceira (SOAS, University of London)
Suggestions for Organized Sessions are encouraged. An Organized Session is one session constructed in its entirety by a Session Organizer and submitted to the conference organizers as a complete package. Session organizers must provide the following information:
– Title of the session, name and affiliation of the organizer, name and affiliation of chair (if different than organizer)
– Titles of the papers, name, affiliation and contact information of authors
Besides Plenary, Organized and Normal Parallel sessions, there will also be Graduate Student Sessions (i.e., students currently making a MSc or a PhD programme). In these sessions, students can present their research and discuss that of other students. Participants in Graduate Student Sessions will pay a lower conference fee.
The deadline to submit papers and ‘Organized Sessions’ is 31st May 2010.
For more information, you can contact with Jesus Ferreiro (jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es) or Maribel Garcia-del-Valle (teresa.gvalleirala@ehu.es ) or visit the website www.conferencedevelopments.com
Jesus Ferreiro
Associate Professor
Departamento Economía Aplicada V
Facultad Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
Universidad del País Vasco
Avenida Lehendakari Agirre, 83
48015 Bilbao
Spain
Phone: 34+946013881
Fax: 34+946017087
Email: jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es
http://ea5.codersnest.com/profesorado/19/Dr-Jesus-Ferreiro-Aparicio
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F. NETWORK: RESEARCH ON MONEY AND FINANCE (RMF)
Research on Money and Finance (RMF) is a network of political economists with a focus on the rise of financialisation and the resulting intensification of crises. RMF aims to generate analytical work on the development of the contemporary monetary and the financial system.
RMF is pleased to announce the launch of its new website! www.researchonmoneyandfinance.org
The website contains details, including audio recordings, of the conference organised by RMF in November 2009 when an international group of progressive scholars from a diverse disciplinary background assembled to discuss the outcomes of the current global financial crisis. Participants in the conference, entitled “One Year on from the Panic of 2008: Whither Financialised Capitalism?”, included Gérard Duménil, Gary Dymski, Costas Lapavitsas, Malcolm Sawyer, Jan Toporowski, Paulo L dos Santos, Engelbert Stockhammer, Trevor Evans, Claude Serfati, Karel Williams, Andrew Leyshon and Shaun French, and Robin Blackburn. Streaming audio and MP3 downloads of the conference are available, as well as a selection of the conference papers, at http://www.researchonmoneyandfinance.org/events/.
The site also contains the RMF discussion paper series, which has recently been updated with a contribution from Annina Kaltenbrunner & Juan Pablo Painceira on the effects of the financial crisis in Brazil. RMF discussion papers can be found at http://www.researchonmoneyandfinance.org/discussion-papers/. RMF invites further discussion papers that may be in political economy, heterodox economics, and economic sociology. We welcome theoretical and empirical analysis without preference for particular topics. Our aim is to accumulate a body of work that provides insight into the development of contemporary capitalism.
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G. MASTER PROGRAMMES, BERLIN SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND LAW
Master International Economics: http://www.hwr-berlin.de/fachbereich-wirtschaftswissenschaften/studiengaenge/international-economics-ma/
Master Political Economy of European Integration: http://www.hwr-berlin.de/fachbereich-wirtschaftswissenschaften/studiengaenge/political-economy-of-european-integration/
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H. RESEARCH (DOCTORATE) STUDENT POSITIONS AT MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/applications/fees/bs2010/
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I. NEW PUBLICATIONS
Joachim Becker, Andrea Grisold, Luise Gubitzer, Gertraude Mikl-Horke,
Reinhard Pirker, Hermann Rauchenschwandtner, Oliver Schwank, Elisabeth
Springler, Engelbert Stockhammer (Hrsg): Heterdoxe Ökonomie, Metropolis
Verlag http://www.metropolis-verlag.de/Heterodoxe-Oekonomie/772/book.do
Beigewum und ATTAC Östterreich (Hrsg): Mythen der Krise, VSA Verlag http://www.vsa-verlag.de/pdf_downloads/www.vsa-verlag.de-Beigewum-Mythen-der-Krise.pdf
Hartwig, Jochen: Is health capital formation good for long-term economic growth? – Panel Granger-causality evidence for OECD countries, Journal of Macroeconomics, 32 (2010), pp. 314-325 DOI information: 10.1016/j.jmacro.2009.06.003
Hartwig, Jochen: D and Z in ROPE: Will the Real Keynes Please Stand Up?
http://kofportal.kof.ethz.ch/publications/download/1486/wp_243.pdf
Hartwig, Jochen: ‘Baumol’s Diseases’: The Case of Switzerland
http://kofportal.kof.ethz.ch/publications/download/1662/wp_250.pdf
Hartwig, Jochen: Discretionary Fiscal Policy: The Case of Switzerland (mit A. Frick, M. Graff und B. Siliverstovs)
http://kofportal.kof.ethz.ch/publications/download/1674/wp_253.pdf
van Treeck, Till: The political economy debate on ‘financialisation’ – a macroeconomic
perspective, Review of International Political Economy, 16(5), 2009.
Institute for International Political Economy (IPE) Berlin, Berlin
School of Economics and Law
Working Paper Series:
Eckhard Hein & Christian Schoder: Interest rates, distribution and
capital accumulation — A Post-Kaleckian perspective on the US and
Germany, IPE Berlin Working Paper No. 4, December 2009:
http://www.ipe-berlin.org/fileadmin/downloads/working_paper/ipe_working_paper_04.pdf
Hansjörg Herr: Time, Expectations and Financial Markets, IPE Berlin
Working Paper No. 3, December 2009:
http://www.ipe-berlin.org/fileadmin/downloads/working_paper/ipe_working_paper_03.pdf
Thomas I. Palley: America’s Exhausted Paradigm: Macroeconomic Causes of
the Financial Crisis and Great Recession, IPE Working Paper No. 2,
November 2009:
http://www.ipe-berlin.org/fileadmin/downloads/working_paper/ipe_working_paper_02.pdf
Eckhard Hein: ‘Financialisation’, Distribution, Capital Accumulation and
Productivity Growth in a Post-Kaleckian Model, IPE Berlin Working Paper
No. 1, November 2009
http://www.ipe-berlin.org/fileadmin/downloads/working_paper/ipe_working_paper_01.pdf
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For more information about the Research Network, visit http://www.network-macroeconomics.org or send an email to Till-van-Treeck@boeckler.de.
If you would like to distribute news related to the research network please send an email to fmm@boeckler.de.
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Macroeconomic Policies
Macroeconomic Policy Institute
Hans-Boeckler-Foundation
Hans-Boeckler-Straße 39
40476 Duesseldorf
Phone +49( 0) 211-7778-121
Fax +49 (0) 211-7778-4121
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