EconomiX-CNRS and the Doctoral School EOS (Université Paris Ouest - Nanterre La Défense), CeReFiM (University of Namur), LFIN (Université Catholique de Louvain-Louvain School of Management) and LEO (Université d'Orléans) are co-organizing the 6th PhD Student Conference in International Macroeconomics and Financial Econometrics.. The conference will be held on March 24, 2017 in Nanterre, France.

Important dates and submission procedure:

Submission deadline:	January 2, 2017
Acceptance decision:	End of January 2017
Presenting Authors Registration:	February 2017
Conference:	March 24, 2017

Submission of papers is open until January 2, 2017. Papers must necessarily include the author's and co-authors names and institutional affiliations, together with e-mail addresses for correspondence.

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.

Registration:

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Sessions and covered topics:

International macroeconomics:

• Exchange rates, exchange-rate regimes, international monetary system;
• Economic growth, business cycles and economic policies;
• Banking economics and central banking; systemic risk, microprudential and macroprudential supervisions;
• Monetary integration and the international monetary system;
• International macroeconomics: 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 modeling, stocks-bonds nexus, etc…;
• M&A, corporate governance, etc…;
• Financial econometrics: 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:

• Denisa Georgiana Banulescu (Université d'Orléans),
• Hamza Bennani (Université Paris Ouest - Nanterre La Défense),
• Sophie Béreau (Université catholique de Louvain and University of Namur),
• Cécile Couharde (Université Paris Ouest - Nanterre La Défense),
• Balazs Egert (OECD and Université Paris Ouest - Nanterre La Défense),
• Jean-Yves Gnabo (University of Namur)
• Daria Onori (Université d'Orléans)