Reykjavik, Iceland

April 28-29, 2016

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Central Bank of Iceland, the Systemic Risk Centre at The London School of Economics and the International Monetary Fund are pleased to announce a call for papers for the conference “Capital Flows, Systemic Risk, and Policy Responses†, held April 28-29, 2016, in Reykjavik, Iceland. The purpose of the two-day event is to promote the exchange of ideas and knowledge between academics and policy makers on systemic risk and macroprudential regulation in economies that are not among the core global rate setters.

Key dates

Deadline for paper submission: January 11, 2016

Notification of paper acceptance: January 27, 2016

Conference dates: April 28 – 29, 2016

Topics

The conference organizers invite authors – whether from academia or public authorities (including central banks) – to submit papers focused on policy issues, theory or empirical analyses on the following topics:

• identification and measurement of systemic risk emanating from capital flows

• capital inflows/outflows and financial stability

• objectives and tools of macroprudential policies

• interaction between monetary and macroprudential policies

• political economy challenges in implementing an effective macroprudential regime

Confirmed speakers

Confirmed speakers (as of December 11, 2015) include Maurice Obstfeld (International Monetary Fund), Charles Goodhart (Systemic Risk Centre, The London School of Economics), Stijn Claessens (Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System), and Jon Danielsson (Systemic Risk Centre, The London School of Economics).

Conference paper submission procedure

Papers for the conference should be submitted by January 11, 2016.

To submit a paper online, please visit the conference website. There is no submission fee.

The cover page should include the title of the paper; affiliation, address, phone and email of the corresponding author; an abstract and the appropriate JEL classification.

Authors of papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be notified by January 27, 2016.

Note

At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the conference. Travel and accommodation expenses for reasonable economy class fair for academic presenters can be reimbursed upon prior request to the organizers.

Conference organizers

The organizing committee of the conference includes Marco Arena (International Monetary Fund), Sigríður Benediktsdóttir (Central Bank of Iceland), and Katja Neugebauer (Systemic Risk Centre, LSE).

Further information: Should you have any questions, please contact Katja Neugebauer (k.neugebauer@lse.ac.uk).