CONFERENCE TITLE: Cities, Open Economies, and Public Policy
CONFERENCE DATES: August 16, 2012 – August 18, 2012
We would like to invite you to submit a paper for presentation at the RCEF 2012 conference “Cities, Open Economies, and Public Policy”.
The conference will be held at the University of Toronto in Ontario, Canada.
The Rimini Conference in Economics and Finance (RCEF) is a biennial conference series that alternates between Italy and Canada, but with a different focus each time. This year’s theme will draw researchers from urban economics, with a micro focus on long run development, trade, and the environment, and from international macroeconomics with a focus on business cycles, financial markets, and monetary policy. Intersecting these two fields will be researchers on public policy, that is, economists who study the levers that national governments typically wield: taxes, transfers, education, and labor mobility (migration and immigration). We also invite papers in other areas of economics, including general equilibrium, industrial organization, and quantitative methods.
The conference is organized by Canadian and Italian economists under the sponsorship of the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) but invites scientific contributions from all over the world. Authors should submit an extended abstract of up to 500 words. Please include with the submission JEL classification codes for the paper, keywords as well as JEL classification codes of the author(s) specialization field(s). Complete papers may be submitted but the extended abstract is required. In case of more than one author, please note the corresponding author. The submissions should be sent in PDF format to the address provided below.
Proposals for sessions, consisting of three papers, are particularly welcome. If you are interested in submitting a session please send the session topic, paper titles and names of authors and arrange for the abstracts to be sent to the address provided below.
Student submissions. We welcome paper submissions from graduate students. The registration fee will be waived for Canadian students whose papers are accepted.
The deadline for submissions is March 21, 2012. Authors will be notified by April 22, 2012 whether their papers have been accepted.
Fees. There are no submission fees. The registration fee for the conference is
Students CAD$50
RCEA Senior Fellows and Fellows CAD$140
Others CAD$200
Late Fee CAD$280
The late fee will be applied to all registrations received after May 14, 2012.
The fees include HST and all meals at the conference site, including (except for students) a reception on August 16 and a banquet dinner on August 17.
To submit a paper please use the conference website www.rcef.ca
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PLENARY SPEAKERS include
Ed Glaeser, Harvard University
Phil Oreopoulos, University of Toronto
Will Strange, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto
OTHER INVITED SPEAKERS include
Werner Antweiler, University of British Columbia and RCEA
David Card, University of California
Marco Del Negro, Federal Reserve Bank-New York
Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto and RCEA
Gabriele Fiorentini, University of Florence and RCEA
Galina Hale, Federal Reserve Board-San Francisco
Luca Lambertini, University of Bologna and RCEA
Lance Lochner, University of Western Ontario and RCEA
Megan Macgarvie, Boston University
Enrico Moretti, University of California
Petra Moser, Stanford
Giovanni Peri, UC-Davis
Diego Puga, Madrid Institute for Advanced Studies
Matthew Turner, University of Toronto
CONFERENCE SPONSORS
Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) (www.rcfea.org), the Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis in Canada (www.rcea-canada.org), and Review of Economic Analysis (www.rofea.org).
FINANCIAL SUPPORT
* Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)
* Canadian Labour Market and Skills Research Network (CLSRN)
* CIBC Centre for Human Capital and Productivity, University of Western Ontario
* Department of Economics, University of Toronto
* Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis in Canada
* School for Public Policy and Governance, University of Toronto
* Institute on Municipal Finance and Governance, University of Toronto
* Cities Centre, University of Toronto
* Italian Cultural Institute
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Dwayne Benjamin, (Co-chair of the Scientific Committee), University of Toronto and RCEA
Gianluca Clementi, New York University and RCEA
Kunal Dasgupta, University of Toronto
Gilles Duranton, University of Toronto and RCEA
Jerzy (Jurek) D. Konieczny, Wilfrid Laurier University and RCEA
Gary Koop, University of Strathclyde and RCEA
Angelo Melino, (Co-chair of the Scientific Committee), University of Toronto and RCEA
John Maheu, University of Toronto and RCEA
Peter Morrow, University of Toronto
Gianluigi Pelloni, University of Bologna and RCEA
Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia
Thanasis Stengos, University of Guelph and RCEA
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Dwayne Benjamin, (Organizing Committee co-chair) University of Toronto and RCEA
Jerzy (Jurek) D. Konieczny, Wilfrid Laurier University and RCEA
Angelo Melino, (Organizing Committee co-chair) University of Toronto and RCEA
Gianluigi Pelloni, University of Bologna and RCEA