EconomiX-CNRS and the Doctoral School EOS of the Université Paris Ouest - Nanterre La Défense, the CeReFiM from the University of Namur, the CESAM from the Université Catholique de Louvain-Louvain School of Management and the LEO from the Université d'Orléans are co-organizing the fifth PhD Student Conference in International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics. The conference will be held on March 25, 2016 in Nanterre, France.

Important dates and submission procedure:

Submission deadline:	December 16, 2015
Acceptance decision:	End of January 2016
Presenting Authors Registration:	February 2016
Conference:	March 25, 2016

Submission of papers is open until December 16, 2015. Papers must necessarily include the names of author and co-authors, institutional affiliations as well as e-mail addresses.

The program will include several sessions covering the main areas of International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics. Anyone wishing to present a paper needs to submit it to a specific session. Please submit a full paper in English at the conference webpage (Submit a paper) in the appropriate session and topic

Program:

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Registration:

The registration for the conference is closed.

Sessions and covered topics:

International macroeconomics:

• Exchange rates (nominal and real exchange rates, equilibrium exchange rates), exchange-rate policies and exchange-rate regimes;
• Economic growth, business cycles and economic policies;
• Transmission of commodity price shocks;
• Monetary integration and the international monetary system;
• Other topics

Financial econometrics:

• Asset prices and market volatility, asset allocation;
• Systemic risk, financial network, interbank network;
• Interactions between financial markets and energy markets;
• Survey data, asset prices expectations and earnings forecasts;
• Credit risk, stress tests and default probabilities estimations; Sovereign wealth funds, institutional investors,
• Yield curve modelling, stocks-bonds nexus, etc.
• M&A, corporate governance, etc.
• Other topics

Priority will be given to papers with original theoretical contributions and/or empirical applications that address a relevant economic question within the aforementioned topics and have no senior co-authors. A selection of those papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of International Economics.

Organizing Committee:

• Sophie Béreau (Université catholique de Louvain), sophie.bereau{{at}}uclouvain.be
• Cécile Couharde (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), cecile.couharde{{at}}u-paris10.fr
• Nicolas Debarsy (Université d'Orléans), nicolas.debarsy{{at}}univ-orleans.fr
• Balazs Egert (OECD and Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense), balazs.egert{{at}}oecd.org
• Jean-Yves Gnabo (University of Namur), jean-yves.gnabo{{at}}unamur.be