The program committee invites submissions from academic, government and business economists in any area of monetary, macro and financial economics. Interested authors are advised to submit their unpublished manuscripts via the Conference Maker system by 13 May 2016.Notification of acceptance will be given by 13 June 2016.
PhD student sessions and Best Paper Awards
We also encourage and welcome submissions from PhD students who will present in our parallel PhD student sessions where senior faculties will be invited to attend and comment on each presentation to provide instant feedback. PhD students also enjoy reduced fees for registration. In this year, we will also have Best Paper Awards for selected papers presented by PhD students and prizes will be given in the conference dinner on 8 September. Any PhD students wishing to contribute to these sessions are advised to indicate this by stating ‘For PhD sessions presentation’ in ‘Submitter’s Comments’ in the paper submission form on the Conference Maker system. This year the South-West Doctoral Training Center (SWDTC) is sponsoring a special session for PhD students from Bath, Bristol and Exeter. Any PhD students from these three Universities (Bath, Bristol and Exeter) wishing to contribute to this SWDTC special session are advised to indicate this by stating ‘For the SWDTC PhD session presentation’ in ‘Submitter’s Comments’ in the paper submission form on the Conference Maker system.
Special Supplement Issue of the Manchester School
Key Dates
Submissions start: 4 January 2016
Submissions close: 13 May 2016 (midnight)
Acceptance decisions: 13 June 2016
Registration opens: 13 June 2016
Early bird registration closes: 29 July 2016
Registration closes: 28 August 2016 (midnight)
Invited speakers
•Albert Marcet (Intitute d’Anàlisi Econòmica, CSIC)
•Enrique Mendoza (University of Pennsylvania)
•Frank Smets (European Central Bank)
MMF Special Lecture
•Charles Goodhart (London School of Economics)
Special Policy Sessions
•Economic Growth and Policy (Maik Schneider, University of Bath)
•Fiscal Policy Sustainability (Vito Polito, University of Bath)
•Unconventional Monetary Policy (Chris Martin, University of Bath)
•New Approaches to Term Structure Estimation (Peter Spencer, University of York)
For more information please see http://mmf2016.org/