The next Congress of the International Economic Association will be held in Istanbul on June 25-29, 2008, thanks to the efforts of the Turkish Economic Association and its President, Ercan Uygur.  The central topic will be The Challenge of Globalization.  Below are a few examples of topics that would fit in that category.  The list is just illustrative and does not preclude other topics that directly or indirectly help to cast light on the challenges faced by globalized economies.  In particular, we welcome submissions dealing with innovative microeconomic methods which help to understand and address some of these challenges, like, for instance, randomized experiments to evaluate the impact of social policies.

International Finance
-  Recent crises in Emerging Markets
-  The Financial Sector, Volatility and Crisis Prevention
-  New Financial Architecture and Role of International Financial Institutions (e.g. the IMF and the Multilateral Development Banks) and the WTO

The Programme Committee

The scientific preparation of the Congress is placed under the responsibility of the IEA President, Professor Guillermo Calvo, who is assisted by an international Programme Committee composed of:

The Congress days will be devoted to invited lectures on the main themes and to parallel sessions of contributed papers. Papers are suitable in any subject area of economics. Topics of broad interest to countries throughout the region are welcome.

Paper submission guidelines

Papers and abstract (written in English) should be sent only electronically to the following address: http://www.iadb.org/res/iea.cfm   by February 1, 2008. Notification of acceptance will be sent by March 15, 2008.