Dear All

The National Institute is hosting an ESRC sponsored conference on the current 
financial crisis on 12th June at the British Academy on Carlton House Terrace. 
If you are interested in submitting a paper to the conference please see the 
attached call. The deadline is a loose one, but we would appreciate 
submissions in the next week

The Institute is publishing a special issue of its Review in January 2010 on the 
crisis, following up the work published in October 2008. The papers will be 
selected from amongst those presented at this conference.

Prof Ray Barrell
Director of Macroeconomics, NIESR




6TH EUROFRAME CONFERENCE
ON ECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
Causes and consequences of the current financial crisis:
what lessons for European Union countries?

Friday, 12 June 2009,British Academy, London
CALL FOR PAPERS

The EUROFRAME group of research institutes (CASE, CPB, DIW, ESRI, ETLA, 
IfW, NIESR, OFCE, PROMETEIA, WIFO) will hold its sixth annual Conference on 
Economic Policy Issues in the European Union in London on 12 June 2009. The 
aim of the conference is to provide an economic forum for debate on economic 
policy issues relevant in the European context. The Conference will focus on 
causes and consequences of the current financial crisis with a view to draw 
lessons for EU countries. 

Contributions should address issues related to: 

-Causes of the current financial crisis (search for high profitability, growth 
based on indebtedness and capital gains, functioning of global finance: banks’ 
behaviour, derivative products, financial bubbles, failure of financial 
mathematics; failures in the national and international regulatory frameworks).
 
-Financial crises and the real economy, analysing consequences and solutions 
to the problems they have caused (evidence for the links between financial 
crises and consumption behaviour; links between banks, equity markets and 
firms in financial crises; what can we learn from previous advanced economy 
financial crises).

-The development of the current crisis and policy answers (vicious circles in 
banking, financial and equity markets, failures and successes of government 
measures to restore the functioning of the financial and banking systems). 

-Towards a new Financial System? (Less finance or finance without bubbles?, 
World growth without imbalances?, New banking and financial regulations?, A 
new European regulatory framework? A new global financial architecture? A 
new functioning of financial markets?).

Submission Procedure
Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail before 13 March to 
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Abstracts (2 pages) should mention: 
title of communication, name(s) of the author(s), affiliation, corresponding 
author’s e-mail address, postal address, telephone number.

Corresponding authors will be informed of the decision of the scientific 
committee by mid-April. 

Full papers should be received by e-mail by 25 May.

Scientific Committee
Karl Aiginger (WIFO), Ray Barrell (NIESR), Michiel Bijlsma (CPB), Marek 
Dabrowski (CASE), Christian Dreger (DIW), Klaus-Jürgen Gern (IfW), Markku 
Kotilainen (ETLA), Paolo Onofri (PROMETEIA), Iulia Siedschlag (ESRI), Henri 
Sterdyniak (OFCE), Catherine Mathieu (OFCE, Scientific Secretary)

Local Organising Committee (NIESR, London)
Ray Barrell, Dawn Holland, Simon Kirby; Phil Davis (NIESR and Brunel Univ)

Contacts - Abstract and paper submissions

Ray Barrell: [log in to unmask]
Catherine Mathieu: [log in to unmask], 
                          tel.: +33 (0) 1 44 18 54 37