CfP Deadline Date:
January 15, 2020
Conference Event:
May 4-5, 2020
Event Location:
Cartagena, Colombia
Organizer(s):
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), with support from the Banco de la República Colombia
During the last two decades, emerging and frontier markets have received substantial capital inflows and accumulated debts both in their own currency and in foreign currency. The canonical recipe for an emerging market crisis involves a large dose of public as well as private indebtedness, often with significant misallocation of capital into unproductive projects. These classic vulnerabilities, combined with weak banks, budget deficits, corruption, political constraints, and domestic and external misalignments, preceded many past financial crises.
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), with support from the Banco de la República Colombia, will convene a conference in Cartagena, Colombia on May 4-5, 2020 to explore growth dynamics, capital flows, and associated risks in emerging markets.
The conference will include presentations and discussions of research papers as well as a panel discussion of policy issues facing emerging and frontier markets. The panel members will include Juan José Echavarría, Governor of the Banco de la República Colombia, Gita Gopinath, Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund, Maurice Obstfeld, Class of 1958 Professor of Economics at the University of California-Berkeley and NBER Research Associate, and José Darío Uribe, President of the Fondo Latinoamericano de Reservas.
The conference organizers welcome submissions of research papers on topics that relate to emerging and frontier markets including:
- The relation between foreign currency debt, investment, and productivity
- Capital flows and the extent of international arbitrage
- The role of capital flows and global financial cycles in boom-bust cycles
- Sovereign, bank, and corporate debt crises
- Policy responses to risks originating in domestic or global financial markets
- The growth-volatility-capital flow nexus
- The interaction of monetary policy and capital flows
- Implications of the growing role of emerging markets in the world economy
Further Information:
Research papers may be submitted here.
Submissions from scholars who are early in their career, with and without NBER affiliations, and from under-represented groups are encouraged.
The NBER will pay travel and hotel expenses for two authors per paper.
Link Conference: Emerging and Frontier Markets: Capital Flows, Risks, and Growth