Call for Papers: Special Edition of International Economic Journal

The international economic journal is planning a special edition that is focused on recent issues of emerging-market countries. In conjunction with the special edition, the international conference sponsored jointly by the International Economic Journal and the Social Science Korea Program (Search for a New Framework in the Analysis of the Korean Economy: Based on a New Perspective about Emerging Market Countries) will be held on June 26, 2012. The conference venue is Seoul National University. The participants of this conference are invited to submit their papers to the special edition of the International Economic Journal, while Professor Mendoza (University of Maryland) will be the guest editor of the current special edition.

Submit your completed paper with an abstract of 300-400 words, including the JEL code, by e-mail to Tack Yun at tackyun@snu.ac.kr. Submission due is May 31, 2012.

The 2012 Korea Econometric Society (KES, 한국계량경제학회) International Conference will be held at Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul on June 23 (Sat), 2012.  Please submit your papers to keconmts@gmail.com no later than May 20, 2012. Submissions must include

•       Author’s (and co-author’s) name, affiliation, and email address

•       Completed paper with an abstract of 200-400 words

•       JEL code classifications

Academic papers in all areas of economics are welcome. Submitted papers will be reviewed by a Program Planning Board and acceptance notifications will be emailed by late May. Questions may be directed to Dr. Minsoo Park at minsoopark@skku.edu.  Some level of financial support to cover travel and accommodation will be available to the authors of accepted papers. Please note that this conference is not KAEA sponsored conference and it is separate from KEA-KAEA or KDI-KAEA conference that KAEA jointly organizes.

Call for Papers for 2012 KDI-KAEA Joint Conference

• Date: 6/22 (Friday)
• Theme: Shared Growth
• Venue: Korea Development Institute, Seoul, Korea
• Submission Deadline:  April 25, 2012

The main theme of this year’s conference is “shared growth”, with focuses on 건강한 자본주의 모델의 새로운 정립, 재정위기의 극복, 건강한  복지정책의 확립, 사회적기업 및 사회적기업가 정신, 기업의 사회적책임 및 공유가치창출, 금융시스템의 안정과 적절한 규제.  We also welcome papers from all fields of economics broadly related to the theme. Papers with strong policy implications are favored. In particular, we strongly encourage young economists to submit their recent works.

A submission will be accepted only if it is a complete paper with (i) an abstract of 300-400 words, (ii) 3-5 keywords, and (iii) JEL code(s) on the title page. The papers may be in Korean, in which case (i) the paper should also include an English abstract of 500 words, (ii) with charts, diagrams, and references in English. The conference will be in English. Submissions should be sent to Vice President, Sunghyun Kim at (henry.kim@suffolk.edu).

Submitted papers will be reviewed by the Steering Committee of this Conference. Around six papers will be selected from the submission. Each selected paper will be awarded an honorarium of KRW 2,500,000 by KDI. In addition, accommodation for two nights per paper will be provided to paper presenters traveling from outside Seoul for this conference.

It should be noted that the submitted papers will be considered (not mandatory though) for publication at the KDI Journal of Economic Policy published by KDI. Papers accepted for publication will be awarded an additional honorarium of KRW 1,500,000 by KDI.

Submissions will be accepted only from the lifetime KAEA members or those who have paid the KAEA membership dues for both 2011 and 2012 prior to the paper submission.

Call for Papers for the 15th KAEA-KEA International Conference

• Date: June 19-21, 2012
• Theme: TBD.
• Venue: Korea University, Seoul, Korea
• Submission Deadline:  April 20, 2012

The Fifteenth International Conference sponsored jointly by the Korea-America Economic Association and the Korean Economic Association will be held on June 19-21, 2012.  Conference venue is Korea University, and the main theme of the conference is TBD, but KAEA will accept broad range of economics topics from theoretical papers to policy oriented empirical papers.  We are soliciting about 25-30 papers in all areas of economics, either empirical or theoretical.  We expect to support up to about KRW 2,000,000 to cover travel expenses for attending the conference. For paper presenters, lodging of 3 nights at the conference site will be provided by the KEA (not confirmed yet though).

Submission: Submit your completed paper with an abstract of 200-400 words, including the JEL code, by e-mail to the Vice President, Sunghyun Kim at (henry.kim@suffolk.edu).  Abstracts will also be considered, but the chance for acceptance is better with a completed paper.

Submissions will be accepted only from the lifetime KAEA members or those who have paid the KAEA membership dues for both 2011 and 2012 prior to the paper submission.

2012 WEAI-BOK-KEA Meeting
June 29 – July 3, 2012
San Francisco, California

Call for Papers

The 87th Annual Conference of the Western Economic Association International (WEAI) will be held June 29-July 3, 2012 at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square, California. The Economic Research Institute at the Bank of Korea (BOK) and the Korea-America Economic Association (KAEA) will hold joint sessions at the WEAI conference. We sincerely invite the members of the KAEA to join in this wonderful event.

The BOK-KAEA joint session titles and potential topics are:

Session I: Financial Economics

Session II: Econometrics

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